June Bunch ft. the Dead Stews - Evaporate

Music by Mike McDermitt
Lyrics by June Bunch

This road trip I have no couch to crash on
Country road and my gaslight's on 
crumpled clothes swallow my backseat
that'll be the only bed where I'll sleep

I've got not home, no shower, food, clean clothes 
I've been rinsing regrets off my windows 
I've outstayed all my welcomes
I'm out of gas, I guess I'll call this home

Out of gas, a traveling mess.
Out of gas, a traveling mess

Well I've got no goals, just a gas pedal 
no destined place, no, I just needed open space 
to clear my head and my conscious, 
it's just me and the wind talking

"Traveling Mess" - June Bunch ft Mike McDermitt

Here's an ode to the ocean, a journal entry from my first month on the island.

June Bunch - Water (An Ode to Maui)

I went to the woods because I wished to live
With purpose, on purpose, front facts to forgive
See if I couldn’t learn what it had to teach
Just to discover
 That I had not lived

Yet we dream, it is good we are dreaming
It would hurt us, were we awake

We’ve been business men, selling lies
 wishing we were lying somewhere else
Burning my Suit and tie

There’s not a thing that is noble
In drowning your fellow man
You’re the captain, not captive of yourself
& as the waves mystify your ghosts 
And the wind takes your sails afloat
You’re stronger at those broken places

Think of all of the luck, we have just to drink
The water not trekked over mountains
Yet in places unseen, think of how they might dream
Just to taste the clear drink from our fountain

Yet we dream

Luke's music

June Bunch and Luke Williams - Yet We Dream

This one's for coming of age, a reminder of the less pretty parts:

No it wasn’t special, it was ordinary
The main course came, it gave me food poisoning
For such a price, you know, it tasted cheap
An afterthought to make a woman of me

Stomach aches, I swore that I’d never eat again
As your hunger pains sting deep 
Your appetite, you knew I couldn't feed 
I wasn't ready for all this fine dining 

Fine dining 

Your dine-and-dash and its effects on me 
Leftovers heavy in my belly 
Downed penny tea as an aperitif 
Empty myself of his apple seeds 

Fine dining 

But when it purged I felt the weight lift off me 
I must admit I felt a tad bit guilty 
What a waste of possibility
Oh, I’ve got a lot of learning

About fine dining

June Bunch - Fine Dining

Won't you tear down this house
Sooner or later, it all will come down on its own
Dig a little deeper, foundation’s falling
What's the use of bearing all that weight alone?
I want to know, if you’ll lean into me and let it go

Towers in cities settle to dust
Even the strongest stones get crushed
No need to be strong, sometimes we need love
Please just take time, make time to crumble
Cause I want to know, so lean into me and let it go

Sweat dripped in summer, cloaked in December
As we learned to weave our bodies’ baskets
Bravery in your breath, shedding your regrets
We get past it, just lean into me and let it go

Glad you tore down that house
Cause now and later, we build a new place of our own
Dug a little deeper, I love what was buried
You’ll never have to hold it all alone
I’m glad to know, you’ll lean into me and let it go

June Bunch - Lean Into Me

Balmy winds blowing through palm trees
Salt and Sand cling to my skin
Saffire tides lull my ship in
Kiss ‘aina upon anchoring

Here’s where they said we’d find healing
Where new whales learn deep breathing
Where everyone comes but goes
To hold on won’t make you own

Pele cliffs slice to the surface
Her fire with ocean dispurses
The center of earth to the top
Here holds secrets time since forgot

June Bunch - "Pacific Breaths"

Written originally by June Bunch and Andrew Breeden in Hummingbird Elephant, 

Here is the version I play on the ukulele with Luke Williams on guitar and harmony vocals. 

Lyrics:

The ghosts are talking outside my window, 
I see them walking in glowing meadows

In glowing meadows, I see them walking
In glowing meadows, I see it all

And harvest angels who turn the soil, 
I hear their bangles, I share their toils

In glowing meadows, I hear their toils
In glowing meadows, I hear it all

Once we were living, once but no longer, 
The night creeps nearer and the sun gets swallowed

In glowing meadows, the sun gets swallowed 
In glowing meadows, the sun gets swallowed

There’s no tomorrows, I sleep to wake, 
I stray from sorrows, cus no rest I take

In glowing meadow, no rest I take 
In glowing meadow, no rest,
No rest I take

Demo

Luke and June - "Glowing Meadows"

Written by Adam Shreve and June Bunch in 2012, 
Recorded by June Bunch 2020

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June Bunch defies genres with folk-tones and siren-swoons. Songs pin sensory cues and story-telling trails through velvet lyrics. A self-taught street performer, June Bunch plays both solo and in collaboration projects including Hummingbird Elephant, Clouds of Reason, and Hot Grandpa.

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