Wake & Bake

from The Rosary Garden by Lizzie Bartow

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Wake, bake, give and take
Blood drink and body break
Swing by, get high,
In the garden he cries

I was once a california girl with long hair
and tan skin sweet
You found me like an apple in a garden
young and obsolete
Oh, love of mine, my harlot's heart
will lay that hair across your feet
In hopes that in your paradise
of love and rapture we will meet

The sky weeps, the rocks moan
when you first took me home
The seven last agonies
were less mournful than you and me

Cry out, sigh how
could the father walk out?
Your hands commend
where we have shown ignorance
Find me, remind me
by your will you guide me
Palm leaves, hide me
by your worship reside in me

I was once awoken by a star
that seemed to piece the night
I held my head and cowered
under blinding flash and roaring light
They said I should not be afraid
for unto me a child was born
But if I lead us to that place
will it be stocked will myrrh and mourn?

The ground quakes, the stone rolls
the first rooster and the bell tolls
I deny you all night
by lighter and candlelight
The heart yearns, the lips crack
The salt and sweat and the candlewax
Hold me like a rosary
God knows you're my last hail Mary

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from The Rosary Garden, released March 21, 2017

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Lizzie Bartow is a singer/songwriter from Asheville, NC.

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