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Palo Santo

by Ada Vale

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lyrics

Who do you think was the first person to use the phrase
“I have a bone to pick with you”?
I’d like to meet that person.
There’s something I want to settle with them,
but I can’t think of the right way to put it.

Can I run something by you?
I’ve been thinking “I have a stick to burn” has a nice ring to it.
“I have a stick to burn with you.”

Then, after we’ve said it,
maybe I’ll pull that Palo Santo from the nightstand,
and a box of matches.

And we can lie there in the smoke,
feel our insides moving our outsides.
You know that feeling?

The body is mine,
the grey in the eyes.
They soften the gaze,
but the body remains.

The fire is me,
the salt and the sea
dripping between our knees,
between our knees.

Take the lighter to the tinder
from the walls we conjure.
Take the lighter to the tinder
from the walls we conjure.

When the lonesome boy is older
and the love is all asunder,
Take the lighter to the tinder
from the walls we conjure.

(Ada had a boyfriend, Ada had a boyfriend)

And who do you think was the first person to use the phrase
“I have a bone to pick with you”?
Do you think they were a violent person,
or did they just stumble on that image by chance?

Maybe they were just walking in the woods,
and they saw a bone, lying there
next to a hole in the ground.

The body is me,
The salt and the sea,
Your memory
I found in the leaves.

The body is mine,
just look in the eyes.
Soften the gaze,
the body remains.

The body remains.

I really thought
if I burned this wood,
it would bring you home.

But it didn’t.

And now I’m tangled in the sheets
with that silly look on my face,
like I just saw a ghost.

Or maybe it was just smoke.

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released February 2, 2021
written and performed by Marley M. Rosen

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Ada Vale Toronto, Ontario

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singing stories
of mountain & city
since 2015
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a musical drama
by Marley Rosen (they/them)

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