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States Away (Nikki's Song)

from Faking The Wisdom by Goner

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lyrics

My name is Nikki Ann Pale; I live in Austin town. And when I come thirteen, my mother sat me down. She said, “keep your eyes so shining and keep your stomach trim, or else your prince will pass you, and you'll surely be done in.” So it was stiffer smiles and walks for miles. It was ginger tea with a lettuce leaf. Pacing half the night, bleeding electrolytes, and the zero jeans, and the fever dreams. But there's hickory fires on Sixth Street tonight. I got a red dress for dancing and my feet feel quick and light. The Carolinas left me, and I've grown too strong to fight. It's June and I'm no mother's girl tonight. It's summer and I'm states away. Got my G.E.D. one summer, me and Jason living in sin. Set a studio up off the back porch, for the sun to stream on in. For a year our blood kept pumping through the bedtime serenades. One envelope from Texas lit up the mess we'd made. All those gorgeous lines doled out just in time--the enigmatic pose, the supposed rose. Propping up his highs, crumbs falling from his eyes—why do the saddest boys tell the biggest lies? But those trumpets blast on Sixth Street tonight and dusk releases thousands of emancipating lights. We're here to shake down blessings from the constellations bright. It's June and I'm nobody's girl tonight. I charged the gate and I cleared it, Ma. It's summer and I'm free.

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from Faking The Wisdom, released May 14, 2013
Written by Scott Phillips. Hunter MacDermut on harmonica. Jamie Dawson on mandolin.

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Goner crafts great songs, combining a poetic eye for detail, a cinematic sense of place and character, and an encyclopedic love of rocks both classic and indie.

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