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from a Seed of Sand

by Sonia Tetlow

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1.
Bittersweet 03:30
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take this apple from my eye I can't see for all the green taste this mantra in my mind turn the bitter into sweet bitter into sweet bitter into sweet I could be most anything but the constant that you need (still) is it better not to have been than to try to turn the bitter into sweet bitter into sweet bitter into sweet
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Leap of Faith 02:46
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Come with me It’s not as far as you think Though love’s as hard as you think And I can’t deny Eyes open wide Searching the skies So we are Bruised and scarred Circling round our battlements Sharpening our best defenses Why Can’t we try Can’t we fly Away Away? Come…
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Every Letter 02:42
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Take these hands Fill them up Show me how to build with them love Take this heart Give it hope Show me how to live and let go Cuz I am fall You are flight I am blinders You are sight Show me love Take this back Give it strength Show me how to shoulder my weight Take these feet Make them firm Show me how to stand here unarmed Cuz I am fear You are faith I am falter You are grace Show me love Every letter Open Every letter Take this mouth Give it nerve Show me how to speak and be heard Take this heart Shore it up Show me how to listen with love Cuz I am bone You are ground I am silence You are sound Show me love Every letter Open Every letter Open Every one
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Comfort 03:13
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Comfort Come quickly I feel like I’m drowning again And I don’t know How long I can hold my breath I thought if I Tried My best I could carry us through But it seems like It’s never enough For you I know that I’m hard I don’t mean to be But it’s the saddest of scars When you cut yourself free Of me I open My window To hear the leaves rustle with rain And silence This silence Once again When you’re falling alone You never touch down When you’re falling alone You never
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Bone by Bone 03:49
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Call me crazy but don’t cower in the woods here in the night There’s no way in a word to forgive this land it’s price There’s blood in the trees Scars carved by the breeze Find the stones smooth and round and swallow whole this hallowed ground Oh mama take me home Oh mama bone by bone Dark and deep as the earth drinks the hole inside my soul Through the lines of the pines my eyes wandered long ago Call it pride or desire Fist clenched in the fire I am here still in the mirror though you see me not at all Oh mama take me home Oh mama bone by bone Look in the wind there you will find me Look towards the sun there I will soar I am the first light of the morning I am the thirst for ever more What kind of woman would dare to want more than this world allows to her? What kind of world would break the hearts and snuff the sparks of fearless girls? There’s blood in the trees Cast down upon my knees But stone by stone beneath the weight I lick the taste of my precious pearl Oh mama take me home Oh mama bone by bone
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Ever Was 03:05
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Cover your tracks Don’t leave the light on in the basement And if you ever start looking back You better run ‘cause there ain’t nothing we can do ‘bout all the sorry things we done ‘cept take it in, suck it up and move along it’s not that I don’t care anymore it’s just I’ve tried for so long to make it better that I can’t remember when it ever was cover your tears don’t let the light shine on your crying you know if you ever find your way clear I will run to you But now there ain’t nothing I can do While what you want lies torn in two See, you got one hand on your heart waving goodbye And it’s not that I don’t care anymore It’s just I tried so long to make it better That I can’t remember when it ever was
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Sunlight Moon 03:26
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I don’t care about tomorrow Said sunlight to the moon ‘cause tonight I’m going to borrow all your mystery and mood oh there’ve been times when I feel alright I don’t want no nothing more Then everything I got ‘cause with you I am whole my love without you I am not oh there’ve been times when I feel alright and when the sunlight’s leaving I’m coming after you You gotta want what you wish for When you dream your better dreams ‘cause when they come a-callin’ they will push you to your knees oh there’ve been times when I feel alright You gotta love like you ain’t dying Live like you’re alive ‘cause what’s the use in crying once you waste away the night oh there’ve been times when I feel alright and when the sunlight’s leaving I’m coming after you Keep coming Keep holding on Keep coming Keep holding on Keep you to your corner And open up your eyes Tell me what you see now Is it the ghost of you and I Oh there’ve been times when I feel alright But I don’t cast no wicked shadows I don’t give no cause to grieve I don’t ask that much of you my love I just want you to believe That in time it’ll be alright Oh in time it’ll be alright Sunlight Moon Sunlight Moon
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Whiskey Dream 03:08
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I don’t want to be Just a mother to your need I don’t want to be Just a lover for your grief Cold comes the sun Winter white through barren brown Cold comes the sun When truth alights without a sound Don’t comfort me I don’t want to believe Don’t comfort me While you dream your whiskey dream
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Mourning Rose 03:31
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Careful when you cross the wind Forward is a fickle measurement of time Ever better once it’s been At least you then know the what and when Though never why Rage is just another Face Is just another State Of sorrow Quiet now Hope somehow Slips softly down Into your heart I’m just so tired of the mourning rose And knowing everyone I meet has one of her own I want to rip the roots free From our souls And kiss the cuts that keep us bleeding Weeping alone Shame Is just another Name Just another Feign For sorrow
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Quicksand 03:04
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Constant company (this) quicksand memory home alone it’s bound to blow careful where you bleed how can you know this before you’ve been around? How can I believe this When you never come around? Call my name Out loud Let it go Don’t make a sound Call my name Call my name Don’t make a sound
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Beautiful Noise 01:29
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I will be By your side Sleepless one Lonely child I have known You so long I won’t go When you hide It seems to me The saddest song Is one you won’t sing along So take my hand Raise your voice And we will make A sounding joy Yes we will make A beautiful noise

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This album was recorded analog on tape with no punches, edits or corrections in order to capture the music as it was played in the moment with all of its human imperfections.

All songs were composed and performed by Sonia Tetlow. The instruments were recorded one by one beginning with acoustic guitar as the rhythm track on which to build the song.

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released April 4, 2006

Sonia Tetlow: acoustic and electric guitar, bass, drums, mandolin, percussion, saxophone, vox

Engineered by DeDe Vogt
Sound and Fury Studio (Atlanta, GA)
Mastered by Roger Seibel at SAE Mastering (Phoenix, AZ)

All songs by Sonia Tetlow.
©2006 SonicGrrl Music, BMI

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Sonia Tetlow Atlanta, Georgia

Sonia Tetlow is musician who studies the craft of song, a songwriter who performs with abandon, giving herself freely to the moment of live music making. Her music blends Atlanta indie and hints of punk rock with the New Orleans rhythms of her roots. She has had the pleasure of sharing the stage with artists such as Patti Smith, Indigo Girls, and Paul Sanchez and the Rolling Road Show. ... more

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