City of My Kin
by Shilo DeLay (Secretary of Nature)
About this track
City of My Kin V: Fmaj7♯11, F…, A, G (mixed 4ths) CH: Cmaj9, C…, F…, F, Em / F, G, A, G/ In 1982 I woke to Find that I was stranded I didn’t understand it Days passed, I learned the facts and math But after class, automatic as the leaves I sang this song and kicked my feet to sleep Billy Joe, Curt, and Adam Ed, Ben, and Paul and Arty Called in through tiny holes in Dad’s old radio By 22 I had come to And knew just what i would do Flew off for the One, blinded by your sun Two thousand miles Miles from my birth Black loneliness, I knew what it was worth… (G) Rimbaud, redwood , hellbent faces Chased this sound from distant places My I-5 constellation faded Maybe I made a mistake? Fled my fate for New York station True love, a call for education, grew my imagination Three thousand miles Miles from a friend Don’t know when you’ll see them again I will Be back with burnt skin I know you’ll take me in City of my kin (verse inst) I returned, found my wizard rangers Scattered like sand angels; she warned me all is changes So we’re playing a brand new fable Hero twins strong and able Who glow through any depth of blue snow Just to make this so Four hundred miles Miles from a friend But I know now, I will see you again I will Come down from the hills I know you’ll take me in City of my kin