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Bird, she flew over the fields
Following, singing simple words
She came with a car-full of all that we'd lived with
Southbound for a while
Coming home, coming home

We found the worst
This town's like time travel
Stuck in this plastic antique
Selling porcelain wagons all dirty and broken down
No one ever leaves
Except for the creeks, oh the creeks.

Myrtle-berried eyes with matching feathers
Watch out! Those Canyon claws
Ditch pockets full of dirt
Oh that bite, like salt
I need water

Our dusty wheels leaked syrup and crumbs
Just enough so Bird would follow along
Still feeling funny from prior proceedings
We laughed and cried along
To her song, to her song

Hours of nothing after nothing
But somehow we kept entertained
Singing along as we crossed the state border
Remembering all that we'd known
Coming home, coming home!

Cheeks smooth as slate, hands may have seen Battle,
Watch out! Mouth like a flume,
legs dance like I wish
Oh that bite, like a dog

But by nightfall she'd flown
So close but yet so far alone
How I wished for one more day
One more hour

Bird took off like a stranger
Now I couldn't close my eyes
The headlights were the only sign that
Any road was left
On the way home, coming home

Coming home

Like fools we stopped to rest our weary feat
At crossroads, grass on our knees,
between all that we'd come from and all we're going back to,
No one wants to leave
Except for the creeks, oh those creeks.

Remembering where and when we were
Bird and I tried to take a picture
Running into place and racing the time
2 seconds! Not quite enough time
But they turned out alright, yeah, alright
There alright, yeah, alright,
We'll be alright, yeah, alright
We're alright, yeah alright.

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from Rain​-​Weather Music - EP, released February 16, 2012

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the Dancing Hats Portland, Oregon

The Dancing Hats is a folk-rock n' roll outfit out of Portland, O.R. and they have the most fun. Forming over a weekend excursion to the 2010 Vancouver Olympics and soon adding anybody they could find (violins! trombones! mandolins!), the group stays up late playing anytime they can and would love to sing for you whenever you would like. ... more

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