Big Thief
big thief, “time escaping,”
from: dragon new warm morning i believe in you, 2022
In this track from Big Thief's 2022 album 'Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You, the opening cavalcade of trashy drums and spare electric guitar lead into Andrianne Lenker's urgent and mysterious vocals. Then you are hooked. This genre-fluid band draws from the depths of Americana and alt-everything to create intriguing and memorable pieces.
-Bill Boehm-
“One, two, one, two, three, four
Electric waves, a rush of energy
Silent river pouring backward eternally
Through the phase and touch of entropy
Old age in the beginner
To hit the stage and blush wild, laughingly
Crush the rage and rush time tappingly
Call the name so much so vapidly
Dissolving into thin air
Turning the two-fork taped up television
Into tunnel vision
Taking the new fork tactile as revision
Working the revision
Time escaping
Time escaping
There is no reason to go down alonе
Through distortion’s secret telеphone
Separate contact separate
Poison in the ether
Swinging still incessant pendulum
Lavender, nettle, calendula
Separate, contact, concentrate
Drawing out the fever
Time escaping
Time escaping
Ether
Time
It’s music
It’s music
Only the winter wind survives
After the heat rush feeds and thrives
After the bushfire burns and dies
Frozen and bitter
Desert ground so cold and clean
Spreading out like a magazine
Reading the dirt like gossip
What do the weeds say? They say
”Everything, everything, everything falls through
Each dimension breaks in two
Like the two hands clapping
Like the two wings flapping
Everything, everything, everything for free
As it all eventually
Turns to dust and petal
Molten rock and meadow”
Time escaping
Time escaping”
