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So I am the eyesThat my father cried outIn our swamp sunk with doubtIn the darkyards of North Country aging unclesCaught in the summer horridEndless and fluttered torridBut all of my ditchesWere buzzing green as I grew tallerFam'ly don't know thatI've seen the road endFar past the bridges whereSalt thaws out to the riverThere on the roadsidePassing by I spiedBillboards that relied onOnly I to deliverThe dusk to the yearsAnd old mirrors, in hereNow those windows still bring back memoriesSupermarket rusting through the treesHearts drawn on invisibilities, like theseAching Spring please bring a ringFor the powder songs these orchards singAnd that shall string the one thing I have leftSongtexteIn Adirondacka, you are the fire escape alley gleamingI've shed your red valleys dreamingOf Springtown streets and pinksky sheetsAdirondacka, harmonicas were blowing through the fairgrounds, darlin'Life blows their scary sounds on usBut that is why the spirits fly in AdirondackaSo my twitchin' girlWhen I kissed you our dock had been brokenAnd every word spokenWere desp'rate desire seedsSown in your raging hairBlown to your face so fairBut I died five lifetimesBefore I breathed just what I neededNo place is safe no more'Cept sometimes in my door-I have something that no one else ever touchesOh Adirondacka, dust bowl harmonicasBlew through poor housesAnd all sorts of awkward crutchesThe city hall poplars soon perfumed of deathThe kitchen yellows soon paled every breathThe afternoon lethargy makes our home cleft, and leftOpen wide as barns divide the supper swamp and gentle prideFrom every side as sunset is upsetIn America, the mayor comesAnd walks among the Greenpark benchesDreams are just like endless trenchesIt quenches me halfheartedlyAdirondacka, I am the water you are pumpingThe town-end glades are up and jumpingThe narrow road, my past implodes in episodes that I've forgottenWe love our familiesWe love our twilight treesWe love our memoriesSalt pours out to the riverThere on the swamp edgeSkies north of the mountainsMy eyes pulse like fountainsAnd salt pours out to the riverKiss you in eye-gulpsAs my piney heart yelpsIn no other mannerCould salt pour out to the riverAt dinnertime Aus Songtexte Mania