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Firebrand

by WICKING GROUND

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1.
Cool Pool 04:04
to be the cool pool detached eyes of which embrace you seeing all transparent calm id rather not intimidate you im attracted to within where all i need can recognize me and fully accepting i drop the search sinking quietly into the folding understanding layers of life and trust expanding i am the seal of fate and crumbling ever more and more becoming i can hold you loose or tightly and satisfy my own needs baby dreaming of your wholeness minds reciprocate enjoy this taking every chance i can to deepen love you see these hands extending above weightless free i feel you using my gravity
2.
under the rocks and bones i go to find my home under the pressing leaves i absorb energies following a trail of seed growing spreads inside of me darkness of the earth come forth to quench my thirst keeps me safe while sleeping keeps me quiet while hunting blanket rocks and bones blanket to find my home
3.
you hear what you want to hear
4.
Mossy Back 02:41
I slept in the bed of Jack-in-the-Green and now I am known by the lovely May Queen it's not for my looks or so soft the virgin I'm old and I'm tough with a rough hewn chin I'm sad when I'm lonely and I come out when it rains and that's when I met the great Green King that's how he found me, wrought on the moss so he blessed my back that I'd never be lost I didn't carry flowers, not feathers nor moths I carried a babe, swaddles in rust I found her! I cried, and we slept side by side and in the dawn I arose a whole song to sing for the babe was my pride and for a night- Jack my King.
5.
Overgrown 03:15
Come sit by my fire in the coldest of Winters, and drinks will be raised in the light of your eyes Over hearth over table and warmest rug woven Hallowed be this homestead my dearest of friends Indeed there are troubles, and plenty of sorrow irksome for such bounty of mans cornered fears Askew in their lonesome beds, sweating with nightmare A hand to hold, heart to hold won’t be scorned here. Come join now the laughter is wholesome and healthy The laughter for shameless mistakes made of thee To grow up in safety regarding the darkness remembering sweet moments never again to see As torment was coiled in the bottom of secrets You jumped over the fire and your dreams lost their hope For year after year there was nothing but anger And nothing was toiled for your misery won Not brazen, not young, anymore there let fallow But wild paths are ran upon, callused are soles Arms keep reaching out for the powdery pollen Prolonged is the life of a flower that bows Come sit by my well in the hottest of summers, And drinks well be raised in the light of your eyes By meadows and benches and cool breeze through willows A song cast to friendship, our hearts will to mend
6.
Red Wall 04:04
Breath of time upon the Red Wall I am fire, exhaling all of the care could I receive and my love, would you believe? can you believe? can you trust? what before this have you lost Have you suffered? how so and when? are you my lover? are you my friend? you are my lover, are you my friend?
7.
If you take me you can't take me if I give too much and if you don't ask you don't want me to help problem solve If I'm not seen as valuable capable or fun then I'll arrest my redundant search for validation I have set myself aside for you you know I do and I've wept and been beside myself from loving you what's depleted of my trust I never thought it through Holding you I have to sacrifice my solitude If you take me you can't take me if I give too much your overstimulation is the beacon of shut up scud out my gut fill it with blood and still it's not enough it is a grinding apathetic waning kind of tough
8.
Call me crazy a too wild woman call me sometimes a fortunate fool call and cone mystically wield the thread of life wind up the spool of many colors call me transparent with invisible dancers watch me go rampant watch and whistle gasp and wheeze asunder the wreckage i flippantly please I flippantly please and i flip off the flies and the fascists and lies there's no use denying the value of a woman
9.
"I can look through muddy water and see dry land" "imma gonna sweep out hell and burn the broom"
10.
wind wind carry me my friend out of my skin wind wind take me where where I can't hear where there's no ears where there's no air Fire hold me I am tinder the blue flame it breathes me in becoming here to float on air sinking body, finding spirit friend Eyes are closed the path is near flying to where stars are near water, flowing fill my vessel pour out being of ascension

about

Most of these songs were written and recorded in Olympia Washington during the last 2 years, however Cool Pool and Out of My Skin go way back to 2017! It feels great to wrap them up as they wrap the album up as the beginning and ending songs. Everything in between is milking my heart to keep from running out of love.

credits

released May 21, 2023

bear hugs to Susie McAllister (sruti box singer) and River Irene (vocals) and Frances Nay (photography) and Alexander Freilich (mastering) for being allies during my recording process and making this album better.

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Wicking Ground Olympia, Washington

Wicking Ground was inseminated in 2016 alongside little Chico creek and has since grown along the Willamette river and continued to bloom around the Salish Sea. Her music is a direct reflection of thunder song and celestial tears, inspired by wrecker/salvage mentality, nature, and mutual aid, she is one of the local trash witches. ... more

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