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Quentina

from Dawn Riding by Dawn Riding

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lyrics

He wanted to be there when your breath was new
I would know that place that kept him from you
if I could I would name it sparkling wine
but I can't
Quentina baby you be the light
Quentina baby you be the light

You do
take all of my dreams and make them true
while he's gone
we're the only ones and we're
sitting in the sun
while you’re swinging from the trees
skinning up your knees
how you make it just a wretched memory

San Quentin is a hell of a home
cut through a family like a mother only knows
so the change born of my mind
Quintina baby you be the light
Quintina baby you be the light

You do
take all of my dreams and you make them true
while he's gone
we're the only ones and we're
sitting in the sun
while you’re swinging from the trees
skinning up your knees
how you make it just a wretched memory

I made a bow from the dress I tore
running out the house into the street
all the lights all the neighbors gathered round
for the parade of my own misery

An ugly name for a beautiful thing
make me a word that I can say again
take that hell and make it something to sing
take that prison and bounce it on my knee

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from Dawn Riding, released July 6, 2015

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Dawn Riding Oakland, California

Dawn Riding is the musical project of singer-songwriter Sarah Rose Janko, who was born and raised in Northern California and currently lives in New Orleans, Louisiana. Dawn Riding’s songs of love, loss, and friendship, present characters chiseled out of Janko’s own experience & memories, and you can feel it in her intimate, tough-as-nails depictions of American life, ... more

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