The Prisoner

from Looking for Landmarks (2nd Album) by Two Loons for Tea

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Lyrics:

You can’t heal your father with a kiss
He was a blind boy in corduroy
Your porcelain sister, she’s really a steel woman
And I’m not sure if she’s an angel or a changeling

The prisoner laughed
At the marble and must
Don’t lie to a flower
Feline girl
Perhaps she’s not an angel after all

Don’t lie to a flower
(A child knows these things…)

He couldn’t fly too soon…

And you’re deep in the center of a circle
The prisoner questioned his blindness
And you couldn’t fly too soon, could you?
Soon you’ll be free of your velvet logic

Oh, you always surround me
Oh, you’re always above me
(streamlined and steely
perfumed and porcelain.)

Oh you always surround me
Oh you’re always above me
Don’t lie to a flower
(A child knows these things…)

He couldn’t fly too soon…
(through a cup of desire…)
He couldn’t fly too soon
(the color of sky…)
He couldn’t fly too soon
(he spoke of time and salt and desire…)
He couldn’t fly too soon

Listen fool, there’s a hole in your head
Your worlds are locked up in tiny boxes
Perhaps she’s not an angel after all
He spoke of time, of salt and desire

(A child knows these things… )

credits

from Looking for Landmarks (2nd Album), track released September 3, 2002
(by Jonathan Kochmer & Sarah Scott)
Sarah Scott (vocals, lyrics & melody)
Jonathan Kochmer (bass & composition)
Matt Chamberlain (drums & percussion)
Jeff Greinke (synthesizer)
Trey Gunn (Warr guitar)
Brad Houser (bass)
Eyvind Kang (violin & viola)
Reuben Radding (double bass)
Mixing by Eric Rosse, Kevin Killen & Mell Dettmer
Produced by Jonathan Kochmer, Eric Rosse, Mell Dettmer
& Matt Chamberlain
Mastered by Barry Corliss / Mell Dettmer at Masterworks / Sinister Kitchen

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Two Loons for Tea is the eclectic trip-hop, electro-acoustic and jazz-infused duo Jonathan Kochmer and Sarah Scott, with the many friends and guests invited for Musical Tea (see each track for specific credits).

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