Emily Stewart - Dragging That Canoe

from Round 38, Week 4 by Monday Morning 3AM Music Club

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There ain’t no time to light a candle
Ain’t no time to find out who,
Sometimes the spirits just start moving and they
Wanna move through you

My sister understood these things
I just felt them through and through
They welled up in my body
I kept dragging that canoe

She says I was clairvoyant
Had the eyes she never knew
Felt the pain of ancestors
And painted every hue

There ain’t no time to light a candle
Ain’t no time to find out who,
Sometimes the spirits just start painting and they
Wanna paint through you

I don’t know how to mend the rift
I don’t know how to glue
The hearts of you who walked the Trail
Of Tears without your shoes

I sat there on the bridge that day and my
Heart just overthrew
The black diamond rattler in our
Primordial soup

No time to light a candle
No time to find out who
Sometimes the spirits just start moving and they
Wanna move through you

I sat there on the bridge that day and my
Heart just overthrew
The pain that upon the Tennessee
Of dragging that canoe

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from Round 38, Week 4, released September 19, 2022

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