Part Time - I Can Change The Weather

Lyrics:

1
Sulfur mines and sulfur trains 
And sulfur lines and sulfur plains
Sulfur plumes and sulfur cranes
And sulfur dunes and fumes

Selfa gets herself to school
Got a test today and homework due
Selfa's got to ask her teacher
What's her place in line

Mother at her morning post
Corner store and nothing more
And nothing less could you expect
She'll never miss a day

Smokestack billows higher now
Down below Pop’s loading fuel
Forever at the furnace
His sweat it joins the sky

2
Sulfur times and sulfur lime
And sulfur fines and sulfur drains
Sulfur stew and sulfur cake
And sulfur boil and bake

Selfa runs herself back home
Drops her books onto the bed
Then right back out and to the shop
To lend her mom a hand

Lord we can’t go anywhere
Can’t get the stench out of your hair
Mama tidies up her shop
Mops the floor and clicks the lock

Texas Sulfur Company
Took care of us they set us free
Four walls and a reason to be
Now is the contract flexible?

3
Sulfur lives and sulfur dies
And sulfur dares and sulfur cares
Sulfur days and sulfur maze
The sulfur flies and flies

Selfa is oldest of five
Got to comb her brothers‘ hair for lice 
Shady stops to escape the sun
Just swat the gnats away

Whistle ends and kids seep in
Hilltop mound a fortress found
Surfers on the saffron salt
The guilty get away

Selfa made a friend named Jane
From the supervisors’ lane
All the way from A Street A
Through Iota Jota J

(Where are my friends?)

4
Sulfur rings and sulfur flames
And sulfur lanes and sulfur brains
Sulfur springs and sulfur stains
Are seeping through and through

Selfa flares her eczema
Doctors office done by 5
Mama's in the kitchen mixing
Up homemade pomade

Suffer children suffer workers
Suffer moms in parking lots
Suffering is the human lot
So burn your sins away

Soulful singing in the church
And fast asleep to preacher’s speech
She likes the sound of her own voice
And warbles it okay

5
Sulfur pours and sulfur rains
And sulfur ran where it began
Sulfur brines and sulfur bring
And sulfur take away

Selfa's taller than her mom
Boy at the door is asking for
Where is this kid coming from
Where they goin' to go

Ya no hay chamba dice Papi
The land’s in drought the vein is shot
Bye to home we’ll try the city
Children pack your things

Self-awareness self-reliance
Self-esteem and self-defense
Selfish-purpose selfless-service
Self-realize

6
Sulfur screams in sulfur dreams
And sulfur dimes in sulfur rhymes
Sulfur lifts and sulfur lies
And sulfur laughs and cries

Selfa's org gives her a party
Enjoy and rest it’s well-deserved
A life of serving immigrants
I wouldn't change a thing

Social work and legal aid
All started selling lemonade
Thin mints are the best of them
You got to have thick skin

Selfa lays herself to sleep
She recollects the family trips
Crossing borders crossing lines of time

Newgulf

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Blue Smiley - Warm

Blood Pumps

Lyrics:
You looked away 
The memories we had fades away 
And I'm in my room 
Staring at the wall thinking of you 

Today is my birthday 
And I'm in so much shame 
And you thought I forgot 
My chest hurts a lot

Birthdaze

a song for JD
 
 (ft. the fire alarm 
 under my bed
 in my dorm)

big fun

lilac bandaid

Lyrics:
You want to be
You want to see
To set you free
But won't you try
You start to grieve
You want to breathe
You want to leave
But don't you cry

Just come with me
Come with me
To see the world
Just come with me
Come with me
Be my girl

The thought 
Of you
Sicks my
My soul
Please tell
The truth
To bring you home
Your not alone

Just come with me
Come with me 
To see the world
Just come with me 
Come with me 
Be my girl

Just come with me
Come with me 
To see the world
Just come with me 
Come with me 
Be my girl

Be My Girl (Come With Me)

junie b groan

Comedown

Built This Way

Brighton based producer & singer/songwriter sees herself not as a painstakingly musical craftswoman but as a symbol of unabashed, unconventional creativity. Celebrating the imperfect, her music conjures up melodic soundscapes drenched in layers of reverb. Her sombre and melancholic vocal harmonies and melodies are interspersed with discordant guitar riffs and lo-fi production. I also tinker with other less sad sounds. 

Figs cites influences such as The Breeders, Sibylle Baier, Mika Miko, Beck, Lizzy Mercier Descloux and Girls at Our Best! as major sources of her musical inspiration.

Blood Pumps

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