Foxglove
20/20 "Red Brush in Danger"
jilllorean.bandcamp.com/track/red-br...
Written by Jill O'Sullivan (Jill Lorean) with Andy Monaghan and Peter Kelly
#MusicSky #folkmusic 🎶
![There is a place where your voice cries
That's where the wildflowers grow
Foxgloves and iceland poppies
Speedwell and African daisies
Up where the catkins grow heavy
Dancing, in love with the spring wind
You are a hazel flower
I am a red brush in danger
Jill Lorean
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Folk Lyrics in a Dangerous Time
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![There's another Nikolai Astrup painting
From 1920 called Foxgloves
That hangs on the fridge
And I look at it every morning
And every night before bed
Some trees have been cut down next to a stream
Flowing through a birch grove in late spring
And two girls that look like you
Gather berries in baskets
Hunched over like young animals grazing
With their red dresses
Against the white birch tree trunks
Interweaving, beneath the clattering leaves
The two stumps in the foreground
Remind me that everything is fleeting
(As if reminding is what I need)
But then the foxgloves grow
Mount Eerie
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![And while the frontiers are ever-expanding
Our living rooms fall into disarray
And no one seems interested in fixing
What they've broken
They just sweep the pieces into the bushes
And slip away...
And now he and I watch the foxglove grow
Through the clearcut
Where a forest once grew high and wild
For what is a funeral without flowers
And ten thousand tombstones
Reaching for the sky
Death Cab for Cutie
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![And bison like mountains
Blooming with Foxglove
Circle around the calves of love
Hallowed dove
I found you
Not a moment too soon
This love
Like water of life
Fell for the summer
Home in each other
We'll finally be safe for winter
Mariee Siou
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![Use a map
Stay the course
Keep the gold inside
With steady breath
And steady hands
But a shaky grasp on why
It's hard to tell the foxglove
From the fireweed
When you're moving at that speed
The more you put the pedal down
To cover ground
The less detail you see
Nick Droz
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![Slither like a snake through my front door
Whispering a story I ain't heard before
Foxglove seeds in my garden
I wonder how they got there, darling
It's a mad, mad world for the honest ones
Nobody wants the truth when the lie's more fun
Put your pretty smile on and take a bow
I'm doing my best to be a baddie now
Kathryn Gallagher
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![90 down 95
With the heat on
The windows down
And her hair blown around
Foxglove stems on the dash
Sold everything
For a little cash
So just run away
You can make it if you leave now
Drive all the way
Through the night
It was a bullshit hand
Just let it all burn down
Wild Pink
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![The moon's out there too bright
Don't you wear no white
The sun's somewhere
And it will be rising soon
We got to go with the moon
Better put your shoesies on
'Fore you die of the cold
You'll catch about the window
When I came in the door
Michael Hurley
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![Behold her grace
Don't cut a stem
Guard against the folk within
Bread in your pocket
Clothing inside out
Heed the warning
Or your dance is slowing down
Pastel poison
Dead Man's Bells
Blur and halo 'round all things
Yellow at the edge
Yellow vision spreads
Tiny laughter
Is ringing in your head
Tamalyn Miller
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![I'm digoxin
From the foxglove plant
The last remaining VX
From Anniston
I'm NaCN
And I'm DDT
Tap into your spine
I am chemistry
Yeasayer feat. Suzzy Roche
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![They said, "Do not play
In the poison garden"
Foxgloves sway
In the poison garden
Melia berries
Fall like marbles
Now crushed and broken
As the ground there hardens
When I was younger
I used to marvel
When they would warn me
About the poison garden
The Orbweavers
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![Bloody fingers
Witch's gloves
Ugly names
For a pretty one
Such a pretty flower
With a poison bough
It doesn't need much
It doesn't need much
Just a crack in the wall
A little rain, a little rain to fall
A crack in the wall
A little rain to fall
Matt Bauer
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![Minister, minister
Pause for reflection
As you fly by helicopter
In pursuit of re-election
An obsession with affairs
Of state and legislature
Leaves little tie for us to share
In the miracles of nature
Like the fairy foxglove
And the rusty-back fern at Poll Na Gollum,
The silver cranesbill
And columbine at Caher Connell
The juniper at Bellharbour
The wintergreen around Slaibh Carron
These miracles of nature
Surviving in the crevices of the Burren
Christy Moore
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![We breathe tear gas
Keep watch every night
We sleep on the barricades
You weren't forsaken
But born into war
Tomorrow we fight again
The lupine blooms
From blue to pink
Foxglove pink to white
But I see the fire
That burns in your eyes
It warms me through the night
Miriam Hacksaw
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![Rhododendron
Night Blooming Jasmine
Deadly nightshade
Fox Glove renegade
Rhododendron
I can hear you speaking
You can feel me breathing
Break my head open
Morning Glory
Naked Boys
Limestone Everglade
Police barricade
Rhododendron
Oh, I can't look back
I lost it all on
This one way track
Hurray for the Riff Raff
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![There is a roadway
Muddy and foxgloved
Never I'd had life enough
My heart is screaming out
And in a few days
I would be there, love
Ever here that's left of me is yours
Just as it was
Just as it was, baby
Before the otherness came
And I knew its name
The drug, the dark, the light, the flame
Hozier
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![Some people I love made bad decisions
Through their fears or their addictions
But like bees to foxglove they return
And all the common sense there is
Cannot save a man from this
And all the wisdom that I can offer
Had no use, it had no comfort
For sure, I could not keep them here
I could not read between their lines
Pull the wool within their eyes
Time is so easy, if you have it all
If you have it all, time is so easy
James Yorkston
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![Used to believe it
When I told her it would all be fine
Refused to see her
Getting weaker all the time
But we walk around the garden
And she shows me what's in bloom
Day lilies and foxgloves
And I've got to leave too soon
Time is a runaway horse
And I've forgotten all my cues
That dream you had in childhood
A game you play to lose
The Montvales
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![We grow tired
Over the days
We grow tired
Over and overthinking
When I take a foxglove
And I twirl it all around
And I feel next to you
On the bare ground
Oh daydream die slow
Oh daydream die slow
Haley Heynderickx
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![That summer fields grew high
With foxglove stalks and ivy
Wild apple blossoms everywhere
Emerald green like none I had seen
Apart from dreams that escape me
There was no girl as warm as you
How I've learned to please
To doubt myself in need
You'll never, you'll never know
10,000 Maniacs
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![Honeysuckle vine clings
To the fence along the line
Their fragrance makes
The summer wind so sweet
And on a distant hilltop
An eagle spreads its wings
And a songbird on a fence post
Sings a melody
In my Tennessee mountain home
Life is as peaceful as a baby's sigh
In my Tennessee mountain home
Crickets sing in the field nearby
Dolly Parton
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![These are simple stolen moments
And we love when we are able...
And there are beating wings
Reminding me if you fly
Forever you can have
Two summers
And the river only goes
One way
And you can't get lost
Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
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![Summer of some of us in our prime
Summer of some of us fighting for our lives
Summer of resistance
Setting it all on fire
Take me to the river, midnight rider
Swim with me naked 'neath the stars
Shooting through the Perseids up in the sky
I swear I saw NEOWISE
I dreamed I had new eyes
And baby, oh, this country's trying to kill you
The dark is everywhere
Too hard for just one heart to hold
Hold on, outlaw
Skylar Gudasz
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![You got a job and lost it, and they never told you why
And you can't seem to get past it, this ordinary lie
And they're saying this summer is the worst it's ever been
With the radio on, and they're talking
Another shooting, floods creeping in the lowlands
And everybody's shouting, and I just hold your hand
And I say nothing, I say nothing at all
I don't think my voice matters really after all
I was raised to hear the curlews, I was raised to notice light
And I watch the little swallows, delicate in their flight
I trail my hand down through the water of the familiar riverside
For hours in such silence I lay beside, terrified
The Weather Station
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![While we sit and talk for days and days
The war machine goes on its way
Is it right? Who gives a damn
Your pension's safe with Uncle Sam
I'm just trying to make it
To the summertime
When I don't have to work
Away from home
Come then we'll sit and play
But in the meantime
I'm stuck in this office
All alone
Lonnie Rott
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![I'm the Berlin Wall
I'm a communist
You're a wreckin' ball
In a summer dress
You're the horizon line
I'm the last sunset
I might be goin' down
But I'm not set yet
I'm as white as a ghost
Diggin' foolish gold
I will man my post
But I won't do what I'm told
Got a purple heart
From a bloody war
Can't take it
Anymore, more, more
Joel Plaskett feat. Ana Egge and & Rose Cousins
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![We keep on growing, no, it never stops
Our bodies change, and so do our thoughts
Time will make strangers outta your best friends
You catch your breath and then it's gone again
Under that smile is just a mound of stress
You're Armageddon in a summer dress
Suppress it all until your stomach hurts
Honest and lonely, it would only be worse
Sunny War feat. John Doe
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![Wrangled in the bath
Beads of water
Down my tangled hair
And my neon summer skin
Chalky eyes still
Blushing from the chlorine
It never portend
It ever would end
But oh, everybody's older now
Oh, everybody's older now
Bedouine
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![Time measured in summersaults
And flickering kids' play
Cross-world and southward
It's a fine summer day
Translucent life-span
Evaporates away
To bead on the cool grass
In a cyclic ballet
And you know I long to feel that sail
Leaping in the wind
And I long to see what lies
Beyond that rim
Oh, ever-new lover and friend
Sing me that love song again
Bruce Cockburn
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![Laughter in summer
How I remember
June through September
Here with you
Glistening waters
Loons with their waltz on the lake
Love with each breath that I take
Here with you
Elizabeth & Beverly Glenn-Copeland
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![A feeling
So hard to explain
Like lightning
I get caught in
A memory
Of summer rain
Why do I try
Looking backwards
With the kindest of eyes
Knowing full well
All the trouble
That found me there
Meernaa
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![Warm summer haze everywhere
In it, you look so beautiful
My clothes are wet from all this rain
And I really don't mind at all
Getting home where I live alone
Locking the door
Keep a close eye on energy
Let it go, watch it come back to me
With every body that I hold
With each memory I release
For the sake of easing the ache
The body bears
Allegra Krieger
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![The sun shone high those few summer days
Left us in a soft wide-eyed haze
It shone like gold, it shone like god
But just as the moon it shall stray
So dawn goes down today
No gold can stay, no gold can stay
What if our hard work ends in despair?
What i the road won't take me there?
Oh I wish, for once, we could stay gold
What if to love and be loved's not enough?
What If I fall and can't bear to get up?
Oh, I wish, for once, we could stay gold
First Aid Kit
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![The sun's hanging low over the ocean
Sand in my hair
Cool sand under my feet
Pink clouds and the moon coming out
To join me and the heart beat rhythm
Of your gold soul, beating
California, Carolina
It's a dry summer again
I miss you over me
Rain falling, soft and warm in bed
Daughter of Swords
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![Will there never be a prince who rides
Along the sea and the mountains
Scattering the sand and the foam
Into amethyst fountains
Riding up the hills from the beach
In the long summer grass
Holding the sun in his hands
And shattering the isinglass?
Day and night and day again
And people come and go away forever
While the shining summer sea dances
In the glass of your mirror
While you search the waves for love
And your visions for a sign
The knot of tears around your throat
Is crystallizing into your design
Judy Collins
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![I'm not one to ever pray for mercy
Or to wish on pennies
In the fountain or the shrine
But that day, you know, I left my money
And I thought of you only
All that copper glowing fine
And I wonder what became of you
What became of you
Sunlight over me no matter what I do
Apples in the summer
All cold and sweet
Everyday a passing complete
Fleet Foxes
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![Once in a summertime garden
Lived a little apple tree
And the man who owned it
Wanted it to be picked
And so he sent for to hire me
Well I've traveled the mountains
And I've traveled the sea
And never in my traveling days
Have I ever seen
A little apple smile at me
Cat Stevens
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![I'm better with my muscles
Than I am with my mouth
I'll work the fairgrounds in the summer
Or go pick fruit down south
And when I feel them chilly winds
Where the weather goes, I'll follow
Pack up my travelling things
Go with the swallows
And I might get lucky now and then
You win some
Mark Knopfler
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![Don't write me off
As a sunk cost fallacy
There was a time where you'd
Bet it all on me
I won't make excuses
But I'll say
I'm overdue for a
Summer rain
Cleanse me in rushing water
Mold me like clay
I don't want to stay this way
I'm overdue for a summer rain
Sheri Marie Ptolemy
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![Betty said she prayed today
For the sky to blow away
Or maybe stay, she wasn't sure
For when she thought of summer rain
Calling for her mind again
She lost the pain, and stayed for more
Gonna see the river man
Gonna tell him all I can
About the ban on feeling free
If he tells me all he knows
'Bout the way his river flows
I don't suppose it's meant for me
Nick Drake
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![Well, the king of them all
Is starting to fall
I lost my gal at the boatman's ball
The night has
A thousand hearts and eyes
Hope may vanish but it never dies
I'll see you tomorrow
When freedom rings
I'm gonna stay on top of things
It's the middle of the summer
And the moon is blue
And I'll be around waitin' for you
Bob Dylan
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![I can hear the turning of the key
I've been deceived by the clown inside of me
I thought that he was righteous but he's vain
Oh, something's telling me
I wear the ball and chain
My patron saint is fighting with a ghost
He's always off somewhere when I need him most
The Spanish moon is rising on the hill
But my heart is telling me
I love you still
Performed by Gillian Welch & David Rawlings
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![I remember well, they came one day
The buffoon, the fool, the fairy
They asked of me what could I say
For the love of Spanish Mary
'Tis not of me to talk absurd
No rumor do I carry
No, I'll not give you one word
But for the love of Spanish Mary
Beggar man, begger man
Tell me no lie
Is it a mystery to live
Or is it a mystery to die?
The New Basement Tapes
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![I said goodbye unnoticed
Pushed towards things in my own games
Drifting in and out of lifetimes
Ummentionable by name
Searching for my double
Looking for
Complete evaporation
To the core
Though I tried and failed
At finding any door
I must have thought
That there was nothing more absurd
Than that love is just a four-letter word
Performed by Joan Baez
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![Up on the white veranda
She wears a necktie
And a Panama hat
Her passport shows a face from
Another time and place
She looks nothin' like that
And all the remnants
Of her recent past
Are scattered in the wild wind
She walks across the marble floor
Where a voice from the gambling room
Is callin' her to come on in
She smiles, walks the other way
As the last ship sails
And the moon fades away
From Black Diamond Bay
Bob Dylan
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![When I think about the old days, babe
You're always on my mind
I know it ain't like I remember
I guess my memories run wild
Like when we went to see Bob Dylan
We dance to "Desolation Row"
But I don't live here anymore
But I got no place to go
The War on Drugs feat. Lucius
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![Now the moon is almost hidden
The stars are beginning to hide
The fortune-telling lady
Has even taken all her things inside
All except for Cain and Abel
And the Hunchback of Notre Dame
Everybody is making love
Or else expecting rain
And the Good Samaritan, he's dressing
He's getting ready for the show
He's going to the carnival tonight
On Desolation Row
Bob Dylan
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