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There Is A Drought

by Lila Blue

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Most of my songs start from the lyrical side and then develop instrumentally, but with “There Is A Drought” the opposite occurred. I was walking home one day from school, and I started humming a jig in my head to the beat of my footsteps. I was so excited by it that by the time I got home, I walked straight to the piano and began to write what became There Is A Drought. The initial lyric that came forth was about the “three crows”, which were based off of three actual crows that had begun to have territory wars outside my window every morning during the month I wrote the song. What ended up erupting from those beginnings would be a tune that truly encapsulated all of the rage I felt at that time of my life around being perceived as a woman in the world, around the mundanity women were expected to grin and bear while our worlds - internal and external - suffered, and to this day it is one of my favorite (and most challenging) songs to perform.

lyrics

There is
There is a drought
In the middle of the vessel
That I have learned to call my own
Three crows sit on my skull
They sing their hymns as we walk home slow

There is a drought
In the middle of the vessel
That I have learned to call my own
Three crows sit on my skull
They sing their hymns as we walk home slow

There is a drought
In the middle of the vessel
That I have learned to call my own
Three crows sit on my skull
They sing their hymns as we walk home slow

I go where they don't know me
Smile wide straight spine white lies
They'll never know what they can't touch, can't see
I go slow like oil on a hot road
I'll blister on the pavement
Before I ever say yes sir, yes sir again

I've gnawed the root of the yew tree
I've swallowed down the river Yuba
But nothing can turn the dust that runs
In my guts back to mud cause

There is a drought
In the middle of the vessel
that I have learned to call my own
Three crows sit on my skull
They sing their hymns as we walk home slow

I have mangled and molded my body
To fit what would make them strain their necks
Praying each time that they would break

I drink their swill and I sing their songs
But by the time we reach the dawn
My jaw hangs low and long
On the bank of the nearest lake
I suckle on the teat of a creek
I nurse myself on the morning dew
But no tributary does the trick
And this I knew, I knew, I knew for

There is a drought
In the middle of the vessel
That I have learned to call my own
Three crows sit on my skull
They sing their hymns as we walk home slow

On the tongue attached to this body
There's one plain need
To swallow everything that broke me
'till I'm all shrapnel pain and greed
'till then I'll smile like them and sip their wine
With a parched throat and a bit tongue
I'll ask them about their jobs, about their wives
And I'll guzzle down their tedium cause

There is a drought
In the middle of the vessel
That I have learned to call my own
Three crows sit on my skull
They sing their hymns as we walk home slow

There is a drought
In the middle of the vessel
That I have learned to call my own
Three crows sit on my skull
They sing their hymns as we walk home slow

credits

released August 29, 2023
Written by Lila Blue Coley / Lila Blue Music (ASCAP)
Vocals - Lila Blue
Bass - Saskia Lane
Resonator Guitar - Phil Roebuck
Electric Guitar - Damon Daunno
Acoustic Guitar - Lila Blue
Violin - Ashley Frith
Synth Bass - Jordan Brooke Hamlin
Organ - Jordan Brooke Hamlin
Drums - Phil Roebuck, Jordan Brook Hamlin, Damon Daunno
Percussion - Phil Roebuck
Producer - Jordan Brooke Hamlin
Recording & Mixing Engineer - Jordan Brooke Hamlin
Assistant Recording Engineer - Lake Wilkinson
Mastering Engineer - Jett Galindo
Recorded at MOXE Studios, Nashville, TN

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Lila Blue New York, New York

LILA BLUE (they/she) is a 23 year old non-binary and queer folk musician, singer-songwriter, playwright and performer based out of Brooklyn. Their projects navigate themes of grief, joy, intergenerational trauma, rage, queerness and collisions with divine and haunted spirits, stemming from their own intuitive practices. They've released 3 LP’s, 2 EP’s, with LP 4, SWEET PEA, arriving 11/10/23 ... more

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