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A Cloth / The Sherry Song About Towels

from Notes on a Crisis by Dani-Rae Clark

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I wrote this song about 6 years ago before I'd ever heard of any of this. I wish it hadn't become so much more rellavent to me. Sarah Vee called it "The Sherry Song About Towels" on account of she was so drunk on sherry the night we met and I played this song and she remembered. She found me sleeping that night and woke me up. She screamed in my face and made me promise her I would record music. Thats why I started recording music. Because Sarah Vee made me promise.

I don't play this song without you anymore, Sarah. This song is for you, and for Jess, and for all your friends and family. I'll see you in the river.

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Well you go and your body stays
Somehow you said its safer this way
You moved your arm a little and you held your head
And you can't hear me screaming from this side of the bed.

And we to try to stay home but they're coming in,
They're coming in
And you try to grow old but they're coming in,
They're persistant

And they tug at your belt
And they tear at your shirt
They said you'll burn
and you'll burn
You are pathologised,
You are destitute
They scream what are you
what are you?
But when my baby bleeds I got a cloth on hand
I've got a cloth on hand
Well I sure learned early to have a cloth on hand
to have a cloth on hand.

Just don't get lost when you leave
I'll rub your chest 'till you come back to your body
And we take turns holding down
We'll be right here, needing you 'round.

And I tug at your belt and I tear at your shirt
You just show me where it hurts
You are our kinda kid we all got shares in this shit
And we need you and I need you
And when we bleed you got a cloth on hand
You got a cloth on hand
Well you sure learned early that I bleed
You got a cloth on hand.

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from Notes on a Crisis, released March 29, 2020
Originally recorded on the Nellie Kane album; Where's Your Husband.

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