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Red Winter

by Hannah Norris & the Band

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1.
I am standing on the paths of kings of all the brave and sovereign beings maybe I'm not ready yet to step a dance I can't forget my lips are blue against your face here's the cue to take our place I am the girl in death-defying acts stoically taking down pieces of past my ribs claw through my skin waiting for us to come in this is my state but it's not mine I've been caged and dulled with time one day I'll learn to write my name some day I'll be able to carry the blame my own words are harder to find that's how I'm sure they're mine I am the girl in death-defying acts stoically taking down pieces of past my ribs claw through my skin waiting for us to come in you look at me like I'm a pagan shrine and you're the Vatican I can't see I am the girl in death-defying acts stoically taking down pieces of past my ribs claw through my skin waiting for us to come in
2.
if I am your endless ocean, then you will be the land you're always stable, I'll always be back again but I'm nobody's girl and it's not gonna start with you I didn't intend to go so far so soon you're like the calm silence on those endless winter nights and engulf me like the trees always surrounding your sight it isn't fair to tell you you should stay but I can't have it any other way I know the stars will douse their fires to those deep and dark desires even though it's only temporary, everything but you is secondary another wave from the artist's hands have got me falling through and I don't want to think it's true, oh no I've never good at explaining what I mean, but I know you are all I need you're the midnight in the winter and I would rather never see the sun and for the first time, I'm not sure what I have done maybe all the clouds will go away and I will see your face maybe all the roads will run until they get me to your place maybe it's time I counted on myself a little more 'cause no one else will lead me to your door you're never quite predictable but I guess that it's alright it's just something else to keep me up at night when you get here, you better bring the rain 'cause the dust will blow away, and love, I'm just the same I know the stars will douse their fires to those deep and dark desires even though it's only temporary, everything but you is secondary another wave from the artist's hands have got me falling through and I don't want to think it's true, oh no I've never good at explaining what I mean, but I know you are all I need you're the midnight in the winter and I would rather never see the sun and for the first time, I'm not sure what I have done you know it's hard to get around the wind I will bring every letter that you sent I've never good at explaining what I mean, but I know you are all I need you're the midnight in the winter and I would rather never see the sun and for the first time, I'm not sure what I have done
3.
red winter 05:40
I can see the whiskey in your eyes clouded up with none to see but expansive night-dimmed skies and those words that make me bleed living here lights me on fire and I will burn bright enough to bleed because the smoke is my oxygen and your eyes are like the seas so tell me I'm wrong upset little me everything's sanguine but melancholia fights mean illness makes my thoughts go heavy but it's not enough to take me down because I will fight like hell for I was born just for this ground you mean more at night more than the sunlight's sounds the rambling country roads always turn me around and I don't want to be right I can't bear to see everything's sanguine but melancholia fights mean my head is permanently unbalanced but for now my hands they are alright she refuses to say a word until she is out of sight and when it rains I wonder if it's really worth the fight you guess so 'cause we keep going night after night dark wings and unblinking eyes for all I am I'm not worthy to be my wisdom teeth mock me at the back of my throat and I can't understand why there is so much to need until it's done I will never know you break my heart like a sunburn in the sea hold me still so tell me I'm wrong upset little me everything's sanguine but melancholia fights mean and I don't want to be right I can't bear to see everything's sanguine but melancholia fights mean
4.
fever dreams 04:21
tell me with your broken tongue a word not meant for anyone but you lie to me through shattered teeth, a dream you never dreamed put the covers on your bed and watch the strangers lay their tired heads where mine should be, where yours should be I feel old but not yet wise and I've been told that it comes with time and every time I say goodbye it sounds like another weary sigh and I miss your face like hell but I wonder: do you miss me as well? tattered sighs and closing eyes, as final as a coffin lid sights that no one wants to see but places everyone wants to be and our friends will go about their lives and they swear they won't but they lie, we lie I feel old but not yet wise and I've been told that it comes with time and every time I say goodbye it sounds like another weary sigh and I miss your face like hell but I wonder: do you miss me as well? everyone's got their fever dreams but mine are usually awful things and confidence is by my side but it disappears every night running off with some stranger, we always say we'll try better I feel old but not yet wise and I've been told that it comes with time and every time I say goodbye it sounds like another weary sigh and I miss your face like hell but I wonder: do you miss me as well? I have to have some yellow paint because it keeps the dark away and if you look in the night you can see long ago and what's ahead of me so put me behind walls of glass, you can come by and watch the time pass I feel old but not yet wise and I've been told that it comes with time and every time I say goodbye it sounds like another weary sigh and I miss your face like hell but I wonder: do you miss me as well?
5.
villanelle 03:17
my soul holds tightly to the night stilled and calmed in the midnight dark come morning I will shun the light though lightning interrupts my sight it will not leave its ghostly marks my soul holds tightly to the night I cannot mourn at the lost fight but wander at the destined arc come morning I will shun the light please keep me close and hold me tight stars flash and shine like fire sparks my soul holds tightly to the night and you knows just what is right will watch the sun and the meadowlarks come morning I will shun the light you will hold me to what is right but I was made just for the dark my soul holds tightly to the night come morning I will shun the light
6.
everybody's having the same problem nobody's got any time to breathe we're all trying to get to the same place would you take the time for me? I'm being told to slow down I'm being told to stay here I'm being told to hold on would you take the time for me? breathe me in breathe like the sea breathe in those memories of when you took the time for me can you believe they just got married late last week they were just two kids and I know that's not where I'm going would you take the time for me? I'm being told to calm down I'm being told to keep my head I'm being told to settle in would you take the time for me? breathe me in breathe like the sea breathe in those memories of when you took the time for me
7.
retrograde 03:09
it's easy enough to scribble words on a page the hardest part is knowing what to say pick up my pen and write in vain 'cause it will never be the same stop me if I go too far like snapping strings on an old guitar it's not our fault at least not today for I have nothing more to say you're such a selfish thing to keep to hear your breathing in my sleep I know you know it's not enough but I promise to stay tough I'm not drowning fast enough I know I cannot leave this way please Ophelia pull me down I'm falling into retrograde I've never like the sad look of those who give but never took and all your thoughts they spin me 'round all your thoughts they let me down the winter thought it's long and dark it will not steal my beating heart I didn't say anything it's not important anyway I'm not drowning fast enough I know I cannot leave this way please Ophelia pull me down I'm falling into retrograde tossed in the ocean like paper boats made from second generation love notes keep me close and hold me tight you're all I need in morning light I'm not drowning fast enough I know I cannot leave this way please Ophelia pull me down I'm falling into retrograde push me down into the ground I'm falling into retrograde
8.
the exorcism 03:30
withdraw yourself I can't see you anymore time has been and gone but you still come to my door you know I want to love you but it's not that easy the exorcism has been done but you will still haunt me I'm running out of things to tell you but you're still listening promise you will try and stop me I shouldn't stay missing don't you stay around the trees will consume you I can't keep you but I should tell you you know I want to love you but it's not that easy the exorcism has been done but you will still haunt me if you hand over a drink we talk before I'm gone you're aware that I'll wait just don't take too long you can do me no good but I guess that's why I stay I can do you no good you should know that's not okay you know I want to love you but it's not that easy the exorcism has been done but you will still haunt me
9.
the night that I was stabbed in the alley by the church my blood spilled red and innocent, didn't seem to know it hurt but when it realized what had happened and turned to come back in my veins closed off and said "sorry kid, but I think this is the end" promise me the world and take it back when it's too much show me love but don't get upset when I don't realize it is such keep me calm when I'm a mess and tell me it's okay because I'm always worried I won't see the next day I'm a six shooter pistol I'm the barrel of a gun there's a lot of moving targets I can only aim at one on my eighteenth birthday I will buy some cigarettes I will sit out on the front porch and smoke myself to death and the ghosts will welcome me and call out my name and when I wake up the next time it won't be quite the same sometimes I think that we are only doomed to die but other times you know I would rather live than lie in a dark and wooden box buried six feet underground where only the roots are able to make a sound I'm a six shooter pistol I'm the barrel of a gun there's a lot of moving targets I can only aim at one you look so goddamn selfless but you left me there to die I hope that I'm there when it's your turn to try and I'm sorry that I loved you and I'm sorry that you didn't but now I think it's almost my turn to be innocent I'm a six shooter pistol I'm the barrel of a gun there's a lot of moving targets I can only aim at one
10.
red winter, she will steal the sadness that you feel she'll pull your bones free and leave you there to see with clouded sightless eyes the truth that hides the lies

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hard red winter: the most common wheat strain grown in Kansas. ironically, Hannah's gluten intolerance kicked in shortly after starting to write this album. she hopes it's as good as a fresh slice of bread.

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released March 31, 2015

produced by Matt Mozier
sound engineering by Steve Squire
written and recorded by Hannah Norris
album art by Sylina Zhang
recorded at Fire & Ice Studios outside of Lawrence, KS

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Hannah Norris, along with drummer Kenny Pingleton and bassist Matt Mozier, has set out from Lawrence, KS, across time and space to deliver great tunes.

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