Lyrics - Dog Woman's Lullaby

Lyrics - Dog Woman's Lullaby

Verse 1

[low, steady, close to the microphone] I went to ground in November when the man had died and the season turned the page without me I found the floor with both my hands the floor said: you are welcome here you are not falling you are arriving

Pre-chorus

[building, voice beginning to distort] And the radio between stations sends me crackle and hum and the crackle is not static it is the universe trying to reach a woman who has gone to ground

Chorus

[belted, processed, Moog-treated vocal] I am still in the building I am the dog at the kitchen floor I am the howl that is not a cry but a signal to the moon I am still in the building I am the mud and I am the power the exit is open I stay because I choose to

Verse 2

[spoken, intimate, almost whisper] My mother missed me before I arrived she said: you are there because I feel the shape of you I carry that shape in my chest like a radio tuned to a station between Prague and New York I carry it distorted I carry it human I carry it mine

Chorus

[belted, processed, Moog-treated vocal] I am still in the building I am the dog at the kitchen floor I am the howl that is not a cry but a signal to the moon I am still in the building I am the mud and I am the power the exit is open I stay because I choose to

Bridge

[voice shifting between clean and distorted, call and response] The books will be there on the shelves the books will be there they are separate beings, born wet they do not need me to stand I am the radiance and the heights I am the mud I am the mud the mud is where the power is

Verse 3

[clear, resolved, voice steadying] I ask not out of sorrow but in wonder where are they going the flash of a hand the rustle of pebbles the woman who barked at her own kitchen ceiling and was not ashamed

Outro

[fading, voice processing slowly stripping away, returning to clean] To be bestial is good to go low is to see the exit is open I am still in the building still in the building still [fade out on single sustained note, clean voice, no distortion]