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Digging Up My Bones [single]

by Gwyndyn T. Alexander (music by Beth Patterson)

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This is the song meant to accompany Gwyndyn T. Alexander's book of poetry by the same title.

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STONE GROOVE RECORDS - SGD176B
©2018 Beth Patterson/Speak Jolly Music BMI
©2018 Gwyndyn T. Alexander
℗2018 Stone Groove Records


You’ve taken all my grievances
And every outraged pain
You’ve buried them behind the house
Each blemish, scar, and stain

You hid my bones, my skeleton
A picture for to paint
But buried hurts emerge someday
You can’t escape the taint
Every bone’s a poem
Every rhyme’s my truth
Your perfidy has been unmasked
And this song is my proof

Chorus:
I dig my bones to tell my truths
They pile up past your thighs
I can dig forever here
These bones that cannot lie

I’m digging up my childhood
And building me a shrine
Exposing all your lies and hate
For now and for all time

You say you’re some great mother
You take credit for my fame
But I’m unearthing in the yard
The bones that bear my name
I drag and drop them at your feet
Still reeking of the earth
All my wounds on all my bones
Beginning with my birth

Here’s my broken femur
And my thrice cracked skull
Here’s the spiral fractures
All the pains both sharp and dull

(Chorus)
Bridge:
You used me like a cringing dog
To fetch things at your whim
You beat me and neglected me
You gave me up to him
While polishing your pretty lies
To hide your mortal sins

If I’m a dog within your eyes
A bloodhound I will be
Exposing every single lie
You’re telling about me
I’ve built you a Golgotha
Of poems, bones, and pain
Your panicked claim of mother’s love
Won’t get you any gain

The world will hear this song of bones
Drowning out your theme
You’ll fade into the darkness
And all that’s left is me.
(Chorus)

(Lyrics by Gwyndyn T. Alexander. Music by Beth Patterson, Speak Jolly Music, BMI)

credits

released September 12, 2018
Beth Patterson: vocals, bouzouki, bass
Josh Paxton: keyboards
Stephen Randall: drums
Frank Bladen: bones
Recorded, mixed, and mastered by Lewis D’aubin at the COG Secret Lab, New Orleans, LA (except keyboards recorded at Casa del ZoüKeys and drums recorded at Dynamic Studios, New Orleans, LA).
Cover art and layout by Peter Shurtleff, Lalalutz Design

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Beth Patterson New Orleans, Louisiana

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Beth Patterson - a Louisiana player of the Irish bouzouki who easily crosses genre boundaries ranging from Irish to Cajun to Metal. She has performed in 18 countries across the Americas, Europe, Oceania & Asia. She has 7 solo albums & appearances on over 170 albums, soundtracks, videos, commercials & voice-overs. ... more

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