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Dry (2015)
moon over clay
cracks in the ground
where there used to be waterways
I curled up
so safe in the mud
and woke to find dust
stretching for miles

neon lights
over condo complexes
trash in the streets
where there used to be
no directions
gridwork
pressed to the earth
‘til it’s flat, mathematic, and mild

don’t look back
I already erased all tracks
with the wind in my lungs
if you find yourself
lost in the desert
just know I left no melody
to guide you home

I lost my wings
two winters ago
but I tried very hard to stay me
wake up at dawn
with the parking brake on
stuck at the end
of a dead end road

I took off my shirt and told
you to count all the stars in my skin
but you thought they were scars
in the whole damn sky
and I believed you

fuck my life
I wasted so much time
giving all of my raindrops away
when I should’ve been saving them
surrendering dirt
to metal and bone

at the edge now
looking down
at an obvious absence of green
you tried to blame me
for flooding the fields
but you never wanted the trees

I like
to stay in
on Friday nights
dance alone in my room
drink red wine out the bottle
and listen to Blue
reminding myself
this is “only a dark cocoon”…

tune over time
I keep trying to rewrite the world
so I fit inside
but each word I rain
on ungrateful terrain
ends up bleeding it dry

sometimes I like me
and sometimes I don’t
but I’m done having to decide
between worthless and worthwhile
done counting the days
‘til I grow back more able
to fly

that’s that
I’m never coming back
I’ve got mountains to build
I’ve got valleys to hollow
and rivers to fill
not one note left to
undo this desert

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from The California Recordings, released April 11, 2018

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Laura Tuthall New York

A self-taught songwriter and musician, Laura is also an accomplished poet, visual artist, and dancer. She graduated from the Boston Conservatory in 2015, while coming to terms with a life-changing medical diagnosis, Hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome. Now a disabled artist, Laura lives in Brooklyn, where she manages her condition and generates multifaceted work with her distinctive set of skills. ... more

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