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A Thirst

by Dorothea Paas

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1.
A Thirst 03:15
There is a thirst The thirst comes on quickly I am so thirsty I am so parched I am so thirsty I need a glass of water Water
2.
Precious 01:54
Honey, if you don't wait for the bus it's just gonna beat you home Do you want to walk back alone With the houses in the dark And the garbage in the streets And the silence underneath your feet Oh Oh Sweetie Sweet, sweet honeypie sugar I'm gonna cry sugar tears if you don't come back home tonight Don't let the man follow you home Why don't you call me when you get there and maybe I can pick you up Oh Oh Sweetie Sweet, sweet, sweet sugarpie I'm gonna cry suuuuuuugar tears if you don't come home tonight
3.
Dream Map 04:19
i sometimes think that i'm many places at once like i split myself right up like i split myself right up my body's here and my mind is there and my heart is even further away but i dream across the map i dream across the map sometimes i go back to the places i miss from my sleeping to my waking not sure how i got here or how long it's been awake or asleep awake or asleep, it's the same thing place to place seeing the ones i love then taken away, taken away still far away when i awake one of these days i'll try to wake up but it won't be a dream drive back past the border nearly silent but when i'm silent i'm not really silent, not really silent my mind is racing, playing, dancing around images and borrowed words and phrases from your correspondence thinking about better weather, always better weather and vegetables and baking bread to share and plants growing on my window sill thinking about hearing records playing thinking about long hair waving, braiding it could only be better if you were here and the rain falling very gently on the roof in the morning i dream across the map i dream across the map i dream across the map i dream across the map
4.
Meaningless 04:37
You invited me in with peppermint tea and records and good conversation I looked around the room every item overflowing with items from your full life We walked around the block talking about meditation and singing, "are you gonna let me go there by myself?" You played me that song you wrote as I sat on the couch and you on the bed I don't remember how it goes I wonder if anyone does, I wonder if anyone will And I have learned these things in my meaningless life I have learned these things in my my meaningless life: look at the good and the bad from further away and you will see the balance, and the way life settles itself And I have learned these things
5.
Same Sun 02:52
Riding a bike around town made up of parts that had been found I didn't know where they came from but I wondered where they'd been wearing a sweater that i bought at myrorna and i thought: how many people have touched this? and now i get to wear it all over my skin now i get to wear it all over my skin everywhere i went i thought about the people and the things connecting me to other people and their pasts i touched so many people's histories today i don't mind touching people's histories anyway cause then i get to wear them all over my skin everywhere i went i thought about the people and the things connecting me to other people and their pasts and when the sun touches my face i feel i touch your face
6.
I know your favourite words Wrote them in the margin But the sun was very beautiful that day and above average
7.
The Letter 02:34
There are a few things I have missed: The sun on our breath in the morning, your place in the chair when I come down the stairs There are a few things I have missed: The chance to ask for your advice, even just to see if you think I'm doing things right The letter You wrote me I found it! I found it! And it said: "I hope that I did alright by you. I'll miss you I'll miss you But go to the city I'll see you when you get home" There are a few things I have missed: The conversations filled with less than words, but more than words, I won't hang up this time There are a few things I have missed: Your hand on my back when I'm tired, an affirmation that I'm something to you, that i'm something
8.
I don't, I don't want to act like a child I don't, I don't want to get back at you I don't, I don't want to have those thoughts I don't, I don't want to get mad (But i'm breaking down) But we're doing the very best that we can I don't, I don't want to cry I don't, I don't want to lie, I don't want to lie I don't, I don't want to get in a mess I don't, I don't want to stress (But I'm breaking down) But we're doing the very best that we can We're all doing the best, we're all doing the best we can

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released May 31, 2013

/guitar, voice, songwriting: Dorothea Paas
\bass & additional vocals: Neven Lochhead
/drums: Mark Streeter
\arranged by: MS, NL, DP
/recorded to 8-track cassette (courtesy of Christian Simmons)
\at Queen Street jamspace in Kingston, ON by MS, NL, DP
/mixed by MS
\thank you

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