This is the first track of 6 off my just-released and all original "Winter Sister Sally" EP! Check it out in full: https://ionaswift.bandcamp.com/releases

LYRICS
Now here comes that mountain leaking from my lips: 
Minerals mumble, tumble, crumble down to a kiss. 
Awake with half-an-eye, blushing, begging to be pinched. 
Nothing quite like rolling boulders to try and resist. 

(CHORUS): You slice opal pie 
For my dinner plate eyes 
Sugar no lies, say I am safe and I am kind 
And I am fine, I'm even mine 
Supple supply 
Another day in paradise 

I am ever speechless, babe I am terrified 
But I won't buy no silence tonight 
And you ain't selling
So I'll be telling it all true 
Like one, two, one, two, 
To the ever-loving blue yonder 
(CHORUS) 

That winter I lived smirking behind Buddha's back 
Getting goods good got and stuck in picture frames 
Breaking chains, slurring names 
Then those wings turned to shoulder blades 
And it's penniless, jingling 
In the cold, tingling 
Then you sliced me up some 
(CHORUS)

Opal Pie

A track off the debut EP, Winter Sister Sally.


LYRICS:
Awake to the shakes and that hallway 
Vague winter birds in the morning 
Ghosts and hosts, medusa throats, expired firecrackers float 
Hissing up the ends of the air 
Gaze, free the face, flee the chair 

Love like all end honey, sweet sweet drawl, forgiveness 
Precious martian, money paper doll and all 
Here take this 
You know that I did try and try 
To buy the lines that'd say the thing more saintly 
Now I'm floored, the lion's roar: 
Torn pages from our poisoned shore 
The truth, it don't cost a penny 

That dream to recall, the horse, the fall, the land: 
Liquid language cupped in my hand 
Unlike so many things so countable now 
Like rings in dead trees and heartaches to plough 
And the times that I turned and ran 
It's all a chance at a chance at a chance to understand 

That it is ever-always the last night of our lives 
That we were all born to bloom forever in each other's eyes, 
Born to briefly walk along the endless edge of brimming over light 
Encora adentro inverno freddo questa sogna è la legna 

Love like all end honey, sweet sweet drawl, forgiveness 
Precious martian, money paper doll and all 
Here take this 
You know that I did try and try 
To buy the lines that'd say the thing more saintly 
Now I'm floored, the lion's roar: 
Torn pages from our poisoned shore 
The truth, it don't cost a penny

Iona Swift

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