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Holland's Bones - The Devil and the Rio Grande

from Ahora Quien Llora? by Holland's Bones // Jesika and the Pajama Blues

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Before they left my home they strung me up, tied a noose around my throat, I was just 15 years old and my papa’d just gone. I dangled for a minute as they questioned me; I couldn’t see , I couldn’t breathe, much less find the words to speak of my father’s involvement in banditry. It seems like we were guilty by default. The faceless dance though their desperate quiver tends to trespass barefoot on this swindled land. Take me down to the mouth of the river, to the place where I was born. In her morning gown with hair of silver abuelita con mis tios come to mourn. In grandpa’s arms mama weeps and shivers, tears stream from her eyes cross and forlorn. In our front yard the cowardly ranger’d shot my papa standin’ right on our front porch; cause he went across that river and he lay down to sleep when their was nothing but him between the devil and the Rio Grande. Well he took from us we didn’t dare take from him, but when someone did we offered them a hand. Now every Mexicano across this land has a pint of blood beelzebub demands. A white dove perches above me, on the parallel of a power line. Gazing up as I rest on my back, through the aroma of a soft new grown grass. Stretches its wings and floats over the irrigation canals which run like cracks in our hands and down to the warm familiar earth now situated on the other side.

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from Ahora Quien Llora?, released March 9, 2013

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