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Wild Spaces

by Matti Joy

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Oh Honey Please, Do It For The Bees 03:11
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G. C There’s new flowers in the field Am D7 As the spring earth starts to yield Food for the bees fruit of the soil And y’know what they’ll get for their toil Am. D7 Their tiny brains all full of roundup G. Fdim(?). E7 Dandelions just weeds to you and me To soon we’ll only hear the sound of Silence buzzin through the trees So stay your hand domestic gods G. E7. A7. D7 Try to see the beauty past your pasture of sod And won’t you Oh honey please do it for the bees Oh honey please do it for the bees Oh honey please do it for the bees (and other pollinators) Oh honey please do it for the bees So if you love the way honey glistens And preventing the collapse of our ecosystems All it takes is planting flowers And making your voice heard to the powers Whether they’re neighbors or congresspeople Tell them that the future of our food is past the brink Or bring your case to your weekly steeple If he made them all why should we make them all extinct And if my words sound off or odd Know every spray of poison spits into the face of God And won’t you Oh honey please do it for the bees Oh honey please do it for the bees Oh honey please do it for the bees (and other pollinators) Oh honey please do it for the bees
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Forest Bathing 02:53
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Never was the one to take the criticism lightly In fact you’d find me lying awake on my pillow nightly Always something on my mind Always something on my heart Always words caught in my mouth As I shut it tightly So as the hours pass the darkness lasts til day comes brightly And the fading thoughts they burn away like dreams of flying Carried away on the wind Float away and then begin Thankful for another day A bit of fright and then it’s Off to the woods without the fear and Into the lake as the icy clearness Soaks out the world with joyful tears And shivers bring out a moment dear So inbetween the seasons counting reasons til I’m sleeping Often finding hopeful dreams of mine hard to believe in There’s no shame in feeling frail Find the center of the gale Never worry if you fail Depend on those who take you Off to the woods around a fire Awakening hope and true desire Sun, pine and smoke are not a liar Bringing our spirits ever higher
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Murphy's Song 05:22
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I wanna lay in the woods I wanna hike every mountain I wanna climb up the trees I wanna smell the blossoms I wanna feel the leaves And hear the ground crunch underfoot I wanna see and believe In the things I know I should I wanna see the love For that which gives us life Whether it comes from above Or in the peace that’s in the night I wanna see the moon I wanna see the Stars That means I wanna live Outside the land of cars I wanna walk out to the sea Where the waves crash on the shore I wanna be the next of kin To aspire for something more I wanna swim in the lakes Fed by the glacial melt But they’re getting pretty deep Much like the fears I’ve felt This is the song of your children This is the song of your grandparents This is the song of anyone who has ever gone out of their way to love They are watching you They are hoping for you They are wanting you To make it right Make it right, won't you Make it right, doesn't have to be fair But you could make it right Doesn’t have to be fair But you could make it right Oh and this is the last time We’re gonna ask nicely I wanna see the moon I wanna see the Stars That means I wanna live
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Sahalie & Koosah 02:44
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Green boughs swayin Dripping sunlight filter dew Those mossy highways And bending flowers pointing towards the truth Steep river rushing, rushing through It’s that wide eyed, white cap misty morning with you Oh Sahalie And Koosah, south of Santiam On the McKenzie Down to Blue Pool, coldest water I can stand And I see the cloud That tells me you’re still heaving So close to God Almost got me believing We’ll go down to Deer Creek It’s murky but it’s steaming Crispest breeezes blowin Can’t even think of leaving Leaving Sahalie And Koosah, south of Santiam On the McKenzie On down to Blue Pool, coldest water I can stand Comes from Sahalie And Koosah, south of Santiam On the McKenzie
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Wild Spaces 05:28
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Get you to those wild places Let your legs carry you into the unknown Exit all of your daily races And face the mystery that you’ve been shown I remember nineteen, living what I thought was the dream Concrete box all my own, vintage carpet and shared showers made a home But Sunny Texas made me seek the shade I found a city park and considered the offer it made Follow the stream around the bend just outta sight No one here it’s just me and all the leaves, a tiny Wild space Let my curiosity reap what it sown Found some rest in a secret place A way for my weary mind to atone I remember being only nine A six year old in tow her eyes shine just like mine The trees in Ozark, the moon over our head It’s been many many hours and we’re overdue for bed Trails fresh cut by our uncle still oozing with their name Little did we know someday they would be tamed Til then we’ll run and fill the forest with our fame Two wild children discovering the same In our wild spaces Across lake table rock the stars and moon shone Through those hills we did hasten Never worried about our hunger never listened for a phone Now I’m nearly thirty Been so long since I’ve been anything but good and dirty Perched on a bus outside Bend, feeding the fire Living for the outdoors, in the woods, on top of tires Feel the cascades, reaching juniper and stone Smell the snowy wind that beckons you on to a Wild space See how the land around you has grown Shed your contrived social graces Lose your shoes for a moment and feel your home

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released May 29, 2020

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Matti Joy Bend, Oregon

Semi-Pro Gardener and Recording Artist due to COVID19

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