CD-version of PRAYING MANTIS with original artwork (front and back cover) on a jacket-sleeve. Info-booklet. Handmade pouch.
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lyrics
Hey Daisy
Maybe by mistake
I never noticed it before
When the wind takes-up
Across the range
You seem gladly out-of-sorts
Grooving around
So graceful, so demure
Hey Daisy
I just want to say
What a lovely dissident you make
With your soft white
Petals out of place
Hanging down across you face
Grooving around
So nicely disarrayed
A colorful flout
Of light against the gray
Hey Daisy
Maybe by mistake
You haven’t noticed me around
The stems and green leaf
Wavering in-place
Atop the honeysuckle sprout
I’m much obliged
Of course, I’m sometimes brown
It might sound crazy
Daisy, as of late
You’re all I ever think about
Your mad sashay
Amidst the tussled gray
Your soft white locks that ruffle out
Grooving around
The rhythm yours alone
The best thing I’ve found
Daisy, you should know
She says there is a dead thing
In the ground beneath her feet
It tells her of a time, not so long ago
When the days would run together
Like a reoccurring dream
And this field of green poured over everything
Down by the lilac clusters
Not far from where we’re standing now
There once was a farm of strange renown
A precious fur could there be found
Housed in the back a little colony safe and sound
Of caged chinchillas
Well this farm became a prison
The chinchillas all death row
As they soon learned of their intended turn as winter coats
And this one who lies beneath us now
Telling of a hidden past
He lost his life by a farmer’s scythe
As he led his friends to freedom through the grass
credits
from Praying Mantis,
released May 20, 2014
Jeb - vocal, classical, tambourine
Inga - organ
Jordin - drums, shaker
Beautifully played and full of moving vocal performances, the Bay Area singer/songwriter's latest is a stellar work of art. Bandcamp Album of the Day Feb 3, 2023