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Bullet Blanket Sieve

from King Woman by Nicole Olweean

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It was christmas eve of that year
you held me close sang something in my ear
we never seemed so alike my friend
my lover my stranger my double my brother
and when I tell you that I miss you I ain’t lying
or when I say you make me less afraid of dying
there’s a road and it calls to us both
I’d ask you for a promise if one of us believed in those

take anything that you will
I’ll be a river or a cup you can spill
and if you don’t come back in the morning
I will dream of our next meeting with my head up on that train windowsill

I don’t believe in chance I don’t believe in meaning
I don’t believe in knowing what to be believing
I wasn’t raised with my eyes on the stars
but that’s where I first found it just as near as it was far
and there was silence of some kind in the snow
that Christmas day in that blue-sky morning glow
if we’re both patriots to the countries in ourselves
we know patriots drink whisky and lament their fallen foes

take anything that you want
I can’t be trapped or persuaded or bought
but I can give you what I’ve got to give of love
and I’ll meet you out there singing of the rain and of the night and of the road


you like to say everything’s in my hands
but what I’ve got I keep up my sleeves
god of luck, god of wile and whisky breath
god of whet, clothes wrung, of hunger, god of gone
god of wood and lake, blank verse and hammer-on
loyal god of got your back, god of stray dogs
god of melody, of words that we outlive
you open like a bullet like a blanket like a sieve
you open like a bullet like a blanket like a sieve
you open like a bullet like a blanket like a sieve


take anything that you will
I’ll be a river or a cup you can spill
and if you don’t come back in the morning
I will dream of our next meeting with my head up on that train windowsill

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from King Woman, released December 31, 2020
Nicole Olweean - lyrics, guitar, vocals
Collin Pompey - bass, guitar, synth, mixing, mastering
Alex Brady - drums, percussion
Jason Walker - banjo

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Nicole Olweean Kalamazoo, Michigan

Nicole Olweean is a singer/songwriter from Kalamazoo, MI and Riverside, CA. Combining genres like Folk, Rock, and a little Country, she delivers a sound all her own.

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