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There Are Bones Beneath Rattlesnake Elementary School

from The World Is Yours by Pale People

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lyrics

Circle 'round and 'round the pine tree
At the corner of the soccer field
Remove yourself from games of
Four-square--hopscotch--half-court basketball
The movement soothes your sweaty body
Spiral out and spiral in
And spin your mind into nothing

There are bones beneath the big slide
And under the monkey bars
Waiting under grass and
Wet mud--woodchips--children's footprints
Indecipherable writing
On the stones beside the bones
Nothing speaks to you when you're nothing
When you're nothing

You're too young to see what's next
Too lonesome and perplexed
They say this town is hexed

You've been walking here for centuries
Under the canopy
You know these roots as they were your bones
Still and slow and out and down
Among the skeletons of children
Patient in the ancient earth
Stretching out into nothing

We're not dying nearly fast enough
For the ground to gobble us
But I have seen these fissures forming
I have heard the bodies
Rising to the surface of this playground
Fields full of sightless skulls
Staring outward at nothing
We are nothing

You're too young to see what's next
Too lonesome and perplexed
This whole fucking town is hexed

We see you singing under your tree
Quiet and high
Rubber-voiced and clumsy
Fumbling for your pitches
In the branches
You are dancing--laughing--chanting
'Til your body falls away
What could hurt you when you're nothing?
When you're nothing...

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from The World Is Yours, released October 1, 2017
Mack Gilcrest - Piano, Vocals, Organ
Austin Graef - Drums
Kurt Skrivseth - Bass, Electric Guitar, Acoustic Guitar
Produced by Kurt Skrivseth
Mastered by Jason Suko at South Sound Sound - Seattle
Lyrics by Mack Gilcrest
Music by Pale People 
Copyright © 2017 Pale People MusicAll Rights Reserved. Unauthorized Copying, Reproduction, Hiring, Lending, Public Performance and Broadcasting Prohibited. Made in the U.S.

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Pale People Missoula, montana

Missoula, MT’s worst-kept secret.
An eccentric piano-rock quartet with a varied oeuvre, from soft confessionals to howling rants about the lonely and insane.
Better than sex. Cheaper than therapy.

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