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Not

by Big Thief

on Not (2019), Two Hands (2019)

It's not the energy reeling
Nor the lines in your face
Nor the clouds on the ceiling
Nor the clouds in the space

It's not to fall on the table
Not a bed in the earth
Not a bed in the stable
Nor your stable words

Not the open writhing
Not a cry in the air
Not a girl I'm seeing
With her long black hair
Not the formless being
Nor the furnace glow
Nor the blood of your bleeding
As you try to let go

[Chorus]
It's not the room
Not beginning
Not the crowd
Not winning
Not the planet that's spinning
Not a ruse, not heat
Not the fire lapping up the creek
Not food, not to eat
Not the need of your sigh
Nor your spine tattoo
Nor your shimmery eye
Nor the wet of the dew

It's not the warm illusion
Or the crack in the plate
Nor the breadth of confusion
Nor the starkness of slate

[Chorus]
It's not the room
Not beginning
Not the crowd
Not winning
Not the planet that's spinning
Not the ruse, not heat
Not the fire lapping up the creek
Not food, not to eat

Not what you really wanted
Nor the mess in your purse
Nor the bed that is haunted
With the blanket of thirst
Not the hunger revealing
Nor the ricochet in the cave
Nor the hand that is healing
Nor the nameless grave

[Chorus]
It's not the room
Not beginning
Not the crowd
Not winning
Not the planet that's spinning
Not the ruse, not heat
Not the fire lapping up the creek
Not food, not to eat
Not to die
Not dying
Not to laugh
Not lying
Not to vacate wilderness fighting [?]
Not the room
Not beginning
Not the crowd
Not winning
Not the planet that's spinning