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Music and lyrics by Camille Brightsmith

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Secrets and choices

scarlet red voices

Are calling me like wind like wine

Devils and demons

and pillboxes

And 2 monkeys that

swing on the vine

Beneath the pale skin

And the wrinkles that show where I’ve been

Theres an empty pail

making a din

As I bang out the beat

As I sweat in my sheets

As I navigate lonely again

I am fighting this

So much resistance

Mama said get love

But don’t ever give in

Body twisted round

Belly makin sounds

I am hungry for lime

And thirsty for gin

Beneath the pale skin

And the wrinkles that show where I’ve been

Theres an empty pail

making a din

As I bang out the beat

As I sweat in my sheets

As I navigate lonely again

Mother is marking

The beat shes walkin

Left her cowboy boots

behind and alone

Look at me and grin

Say baby he is comin’

But you better be standin’

right on your own

behind wrinkles that show where I  been

Theres an empty pail

Babe now I’m making a din

As I bang out the beat

As I sweat in my sheets

As I navigate lonely again