Number Three Escondida

#3 Escondida – Jolie Holland 2004

1. "Sascha"
2. "Black Stars"
3. "Old Fashioned Morphine"
4. "Amen"
5. "Mad Tom of Bedlam"
6. "Poor Girl's Blues"
7. "Goodbye California"
8. "Do You?"
9. "Darlin Ukelele"
10. "Damn Shame"
11. "Tiny Idyll/Lil Missy"
12. "Faded Coat of Blue"

“I tried to go to sleep in my haunted little room. The shadows are churning in the passage of the moon”


Trampled paths and repetition
In my mind shot through my ears

Heat some coffee

Stare out into the black night

Big red sun and no new heat
Lucky old sun with nothing to do

Rollin' around heaven all day

I’d misplaced the notion to be hungered or thirsty
Yet and so and hold on

Oh’ Escondida you’ve found my harvest moon

Unlike the others and I keep you close

No closer

I can’t believe my ears when I believe you

That sweet thing you know
My little secret, my darlin’ ukulele

Bigger than this whole wide world which people say is round

Tucked into my pocket

There is something new under the big red sun

A million miles from behind the moon
Oh’ Escondida – rejuvenator, new path finder, companion

It is endless

Hallways and closets and cupboards

The tower of song

You little flashlight

You lovely little flashlight

I’m grateful to have heard your light
Age stiffens your back

N' dull your mind

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But Oh’ that little light of yours sure did shine
Let it shine, let it shine, let it shine

And spin, and be heard