Sweet Metallic

from Serpentine by Gillian Grassie

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Fear tastes like rust sucked inside your mouth
a sweet metallic you can't spit out
You just can't plan for this kind of thing
but what were we expecting?
We can't stay, can't leave, can't force the peace
we can't make our gods do anything

Men stand like tall white stones
lined in a thousand tidy rows
see we dwell in a house of cedar
no fear here, no love either
But there's a woman sitting there
on a hard kitchen chair
scared to death of the knock on her doorway
"Don't let him be gone
I can't do this alone
we've got three kids, got a family"

You know this used to be our home
it wasn't much but it was our own
but the waters kept on rising up
and no one came to save us
We heard, "Bye, Bye, Blackbird"
from the edge of a stern
that was pulling away
see, we've built ourselves on unity
and a land of opportunity
and shame, shame, shame

Fear tastes like rust sucked inside your mouth
a sweet metallic you can't spit out

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from Serpentine, released October 30, 2007

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Gillian Grassie Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Gillian Grassie is an American singer-songwriter and harpist who splits her time between Philadelphia and Berlin.

"It’s rare to hear a young singer with such control and understated soulfulness, and even more rare to hear a harp provide such a deep percussive groove. I was immediately captivated by her sound.” - Grammy-winner Marc Cohn ... more

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