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Blackout

from In Technicolor by Miss Emily Brown

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Blackout

Rope tie a rope from the barn to the farmhouse,
follow that rope through the blinding snow.
Rope tie a rope leave the bread by the road,
or the dark dark stranger will be knocking at the door.

Rope tie a rope from the F to the C#
D# G# - rope tie a rope.
Rope tie a rope from the silent picture
to the organ player who is sitting in the dark.

Blackout, dust-bowl, miles of nothing,
brand new theatre, armoury, parlour.
Blackout memory, children swimming,
fields are flooding, mother is singing.

Rope tie a rope from the youngest sibling
to the eldest living in the mother country.
Rope tie a rope - they are weeks on a boat,
God bless that ship, the Aquatania.

Rope tie a rope from the last word written
to the first word spoken on his safe return.
Rope tie a rope from yourself to your neighbour,
streetlight’s gone and the moon is waning.

Blackout bicycle, midnight riders,
your hands fixing Halifax bombers.
Blackout telegram, short-hand lovers,
stay indoors and stoke the home fires.

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from In Technicolor, released January 30, 2010
Written and performed by Miss Emily Brown
Fiddle by Hannah Epperson
Drum machine by Corwin Fox

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Miss Emily Brown British Columbia

Canadian performing artist Miss Emily Brown weaves together words and sound with the precision of a knitting spider. Nominated for a 2010 Canadian Folk Music Award for Pushing the Boundaries, a CBC Radio 3 Bucky Award for Best New Artist and put forward for the 2010 Polaris Prize, Miss Brown impossibly combines found instruments with her unmistakable voice. ... more

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