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Strangely, this was composed 3 days before the tsunami hit Japan.

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If the room was only big enough for a hushed and weary sound, and the clock was slowly ticking and pounding in my head,
And the roots grow slowly over all the books and words we've said, and my hands become invisible to the notes that fill the air, and the reason that we're here today is constantly reproachably the last thing that lingers here...
Tick, tock, the waves are crashing
past the dock of inconveniences,
and all the rhymes and reasons happens to be, fortunately, your greedy little mouths drowned out.
And all the way from the east side there,
upon a strand of a stranger's hair we stare as the sun pierces through the last of the stones that held up the thrones of gods who cater to horders and lawyers and doctors and all of your guns and knives will be the end
of a time that could have been sublime, but we'll always end up in the mouths of the rats in the cracks
of the walls waiting for us, patiently. And all of the mountain people know that in the eyes of man will grow
the ugliest sight that we'll never see all crumbs and dust and then no trees...

credits

from Muses and Bones, track released January 25, 2012
All songs and lyrics written by Crystal Bright
Recorded and mixed by Randy Seals at On Pop of the World Studios.
Mastered by G & J Audio
Crystal Bright: Vocals, Accordion, Saw
Diego Diaz: Guitars (Electric, Nylon, Lapsteel w/ Ebow)
Randy Seals: Drum Kit, backing vocals, Glockenspiel
Sanders Davis: Bass
Jeremy Denman appears on trumpet courtesy of The Urban Sophisticates
Mike O'Malley appears on Irish Bouzouki courtesy of Mike O'Malley

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Crystal Bright and the Silver Hands Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Crystal's songs heavily incorporate her educational background in Anthropology and Ethnomusicology and her experiences playing in groups that have varied from Mariachi, Chinese, Balinese Gamelan, Samba, to Ugandan ensembles.
"This is what it would sound like if Kate Bush were to genetically fuse with Danny Elfman and Dresden Dolls in some strange biological experiment." ... more

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