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She Stayed As Steam

by Kevin Devine

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1.
She Stayed As Steam 05:42
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All that music in your mouth Rivers rushing to your teeth Cresting waves through waiting valleys Flooded language tributaries Connect and cover over me Tensing jaw and corkscrew eyelids As if you couldn’t bear to see All that water roaring from you Collect in clouds inside the ballroom Over people who don’t know you But darling, I do Trance yourself back from the city Blood not moving to my feet Your footfalls tentative and muffled Automatic listless shuffle You sidewalk scatterbrained, cry uncle Paint yourself back in your corner Look for her on your tv It’s Friday night and I am hungry For a hand a mouth a body A love I wouldn’t have to carry A stitch in my mouth I’m untying now A concrete canal In a bombed border town An echo in the rafters Reminding you there was a sound You killed her in waves So she stayed as steam To hiss at you now Yes, you killed her in waves But no, that’s not today So you breathe through your mouth You calm yourself down And keep what you found And shouted out loud: She can hover in hurt Or dissolve to dirt Some prayer in your mouth Or she might stay as steam Soak into the beams Let you figure her out
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Big Bad Man 04:44
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I was a big, bad man I picked at you like cotton candy I talked my talk, made you feel lucky Then broke your heart when I was ready Yeah, I was a big, bad man See, I strummed my slow, sad song And I felt your lashes flutter for me I let my smile spread out sneaky My Cheshire cat act pushed your heartbeat When I strummed my slow, sad song Then I made a train wreck mess I sunk to hell and dragged you with me I grieved my weight in coke & whiskey I shamed my father, scared my family When I made my train wreck mess But when you’d sleep, you’d sing my name into your pillow A blue note cast to calm our burning bed Your helpless heart dreamt my voice rising up to meet you And held the plain truth hostage in your head See, I never raised the ransom, I never argued over terms. I just let you and your song lie there and burn. Now I think long, hard thoughts About the years I can’t return you The truth it took too long to tell you There’s no excuse for how I did you When I think my long, hard thoughts
3.
Breathe, Breathe Deep (Hand of God RMX by Plosive) 04:56
4.
Another Bag of Bones (Devastation of Death Remix by T. Dowdy) 05:30

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She Stayed As Steam features two previously unreleased tracks that were recorded by Kevin Devine and The Goddamn Band during the “Brother’s Blood” sessions. Though ‘She Stayed As Steam’ and ‘Big Bad Man’ did not make it onto “Brother’s Blood” they were never really considered throw-aways or B-sides but instead they were held onto until the time seemed right.

The EP also includes two remixes of tracks from “Brother’s Blood”. In addition the vinyl version (released by These Are Not Records) includes two live acoustic radio performances that are exclusive to the vinyl release.

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released June 29, 2010

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