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Kiss The Ground

from Alice by The Oh Wells

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This song was written in the midst of Covid, and isolation, and political turmoil. The idea was a bit more hopeful take on the situation, meaning - with all that is swirling around, let's have our own reality, our own fun - embrace our lovers/family if we have them, or take a solo walk around the lake...get out in nature and choose not to suffer. Focus on what you do have, and make a world inside whatever is going on in the world.

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KISS THE GROUND
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I can't take it
Worrying about the world out there
When a circle is a square
Will we make it
Is there anywhere left to make it to
Or left for me and you
Calling it crazy insults the insane
Might as well frost our cornflakes with cocaine
Guess we should send every swamp down the drain
But the sun is in the rain

So let's take another breath
Make our own summer
Give our grief a little death
And skip the wake
When a wealth of broken dreams
Has left you in the lost and found
Throw your worries to the wind
And kiss the ground

I can't shake it
The feeling that we could be unified
Like the moon and tide
Remake it
There's still a canvas underneath the paint
Down under what we ain't
Differences made of our colors and clothes
Between our ears is where this culture grows
But we can always re-choose what we chose
And everybody knows

So let's take another step
And hold our lovers
Or let’s walk a solo mile
Out to the lake
We've been around the sun a thousand times
Still the fox ain't caught the hound
Let go your suffering
And kiss the ground

The eagle and the firefly
Our laughter soaring through the sky
A lust for life a playful grin
Freedom within

So let's take another breath
Make our own summer
Give our grief a little death
And skip the wake
And though we've failed and though we've cried
Our hands are never bound
So let go your suffering
Throw your worries to the wind
Let the new day begin
And kiss the ground
Yeah fire it up again
And kiss the ground

© & ℗ 2022 The Oh Wells, Brian Kerrigan Music, BMI and Ira Merrill Music, BMI

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from Alice, released September 9, 2022

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The Oh Wells Seattle, Washington

The Oh Wells is a folk-rock / alt-country / Americana band hailing from the small towns of Sumner and Auburn, just south of Seattle, Washington.

The band features multi-instrumentalist / singer-songwriters Brian Kerrigan and Ira Merrill and sometimes Steve Gale on drums.
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