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Origin Tale

from East / West by Dao Strom

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Mountain mother / mourning all her rivers / that flow with the blood / of soldiers / the children who remain / pick up the pieces / they plant the seeds

Dragon father / you always were so restless / so you took half of the children / and you led them south to the seashore / where you taught them freedom

Mother she is crying / but her tears fall as drops of ink / so Mother she cries / a newspaper / and her sorrow is only documentary

newsreels tell me / what to feel / because I don’t know / what is real / t.v. communicates our rage / but a death count is all / that speaks our sadness

Sister searches high & low / for her Brother she once knew / in the north / and Brother he writes / long letters home / “is a flag not but a piece of cloth?”

tell me / what you saw that night / when the bomb’s fire mingled / with the starlight / thought I was witnessing the end / of my Time / but then I learned
that the guilty / survive // we survive

((we will suffer no more))
((we will not carry your war))

credits

from East / West, released September 22, 2015
dao strom - vocals, harmony vocals, guitar
amanda lawrence - viola, violin
nial nutter - electric guitar, piano

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Dao Strom Portland, Oregon

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