Knowing the truth doesn't guarantee you'll choose it
feeling better doesn't mean you're cured.
Like a heavenly chorus to an audience of stone
the music plays but it goes unheard.
If I could fix myself alone I would have done it
it's a deeper work than these hands can boast
fearful and wonderful as I'm made
I'm a valley of bones without your ghost.
Deceitful is my heart above all else
saturated is my mind.
Having the thought doesn't mean you have to do it
the devil's workshop is an idle mind
who you are, what you want, where you go
doesn't have to be what you're tempted by.
Deceitful is my heart above all else
saturated is my mind
deceitful is my heart above all else
saturated is my mind.
The Oakland singer's latest album imagines the power struggle between man and nature as a slow, steady tempest of dark folk. Bandcamp New & Notable Nov 20, 2019