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you don't mean it, you can't help it.
five little babies, and one by one you ate them
one by one you burned us, one by one we were burned
by the sun, and then you tilled us in the ground
where we make that sound, muffled and dark

1957 in a white cotton undershirt
you are a towhead and your feelings are easily hurt
you read that book, and get a close look
at the devil inside, who took six million lives

long brown legs, yellow eyes, you take my father by surprise, and you can't contain
the whole history of pain, so you swallow him live,
to feed those inside

you don't mean it at all, you don't mean it at all

leave the country, get divorced, give me a haircut just like yours, a little blonde shag.
and then you meet the yellow man
who says he'll share his land with you, we'll till it together

you don't mean it at all, you don't mean it at all

you can't help it, you don't mean it,
five little babies, and you demean them,
one by one you raise us, one by one we are razed
to the ground, and you feel a gripping pain, each time we take the blame, for falling down
and you don't mean it at all

credits

from Lake of States : Sounds of the Summer, released January 12, 2010
holly ~ lead vokes, guitar
merilee ~ cello
mike ~ piano, banjo drum, piano, and piano
nature ~ crickets, cicadas, birds

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Holly Mae and the Painted Room Berlin, Germany

The Painted Room is an art-folk entity of varying membership that existed in from 2006 to 2012. Members have included Holly Mae Haddock, Sara Kwon, Kathy Kwon, Molly Morgan, Sarah Morris, Mary Fraser, Mike Billmire, Serge Van der Voo, Merilee Philips, Sami Jo Buffington, Ken Lee, Jaime Fordyce & others ... more

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