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Stay - written by Odetta Hartman

I dreamt your eyelashes kissed my shoulder blade
On the tip that points out when beside you I lay
In this little cold bed with the iron work frame
But I can't convince you to stay

Though I only just met you through a white window pane
Shrouded in blinking meadows, on a feather you came
'Cross the bridge to my door, well, they're one and the same
But I can't convince you to stay

Oh baby, I can't convince you to stay
Oh baby, I can't convince you to stay
I can't convince you to stay

I'm just trying to go uptown, I'm just trying to go up
Draw a tree branch in ashes, raise your thin silver cup
To the open-door guest who'll embrace at the cuff
But I can't convince you to stay

Now it's blocks of my weekdays that expand while you're off
Give a pinch to my side-arm and say, 'kid toughen up'
But I can't give or take when I've had much too much
And I can't convince you to stay

Oh baby, I can't convince you to stay
Oh baby, I can't convince you to stay
I can't convince you to stay

You say, 'I don't want nothin' but delight on my tongue
And really want is the difference between a couple bread crumbs?'
Well, I'd follow your pattern, skipping stones you have flung,
But I can't convince you to stay

Finally crystal clear dew drops ring with harmonies sung
By a chorus of cheepers tremblin' like they were rung
And the spiderweb tarot off the window pane hung
But I can't convince you to stay

Oh baby, I can't convince you to stay
Oh baby, I can't convince you to stay
I can't convince you to stay

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from Tally Marks EP, track released August 1, 2013

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Odetta Hartman New York, New York

swansongs out 3.22.24

+ cowboy soul
+ future folk
+ superstitious songs
+ sound experiments

~ back-porch banjos
~ detuned violins
~ foley field recordings
~ tuning forks
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