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I'd be a fish
if I could be canned with you
I'd be a model citizen
if your city would let me in
I'd be an eclipse
if you'd always shine
I'd be the mountain's body
where you mine

Boyswan, I don't float
don't migrate when the seasons get cold
I'm always hanging out in pool halls
anywhere you go
Boyswan, take these bones
too heavy for your bed of seafoam
Boyswan, Boyswan, these arms could be your pond

When the weather is cool
I'll protect you
from the Zeus in you
He wouldn't touch a feather
if in this world we could protect each other

In this world you lift my eyes--
a honk from the traffic in the sky
In this world, you shine
but go south-- I don't have to say you're mine

Boyswan, I'd be your stream,
so you'd swim through me on your journey.

credits

from The Dreamkeeper and a Gun, released May 22, 2011
© 2011 Laura Dunn
words and music by Laura Dunn
Laura Dunn, banjo, vocals
Monica Metzler, guitar
Brian Rady, vocals
Christian Appel, vocals, toy piano
Brigit Kelly Young, vocals

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Laura Dunn and the Ghosts of Xmas Past Portland, Oregon

with Bjorkish runaway melodies and surreal lyricism, Laura Dunn and the Ghosts of Xmas Past combine banjo-driven creepy folk music with opera singers, toy pianos and rattling chains.
She sounds like "Emmylou Harris singing in a haunted house" --James Duval, Virginia Omnivore
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