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Washing

from Inside Outside by Karen Hunter

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Recorded live at the Arc, Dunedin New Zealand in 1999 with the band Afghani Stan. We created a show of poetry and music together and this was one of the songs we collaborated on in the final set.

The Arc was such a great venue!

Washing is about hard feelings : guilt, anxiety, pain - I am putting these strange moods into a cinematic backdrop - you are the actor, you are running from the scene of the crime on a wild west coast beach - your heart lies on the sand, you are the victim as well as the perpetrator....

Try not to think to literally about it :-) It's totally abstract - and its one of my favourites

lyrics

I wandered along a lonely beach
My mind was in the sky
So rich and blue
White and shiny pictures
Heat breaks my mental image of you

A green and grey wall
Rises up 50 feet tall
Covered in slime
I can't scrape it off

Look to the left ( all alone )
Look to the right ( don't look now you're on your own )

Running through the sand with a knife in my hand
Grass like needles that cut my feet

If I say it out loud will it go away?

It's like thick red guilt, it feels so hard in my heart
It feels so hard in my heart

Washing it all away......

credits

from Inside Outside, released January 1, 2000
Karen Hunter - vocals and guitar
Tim Faville - guitar and vocals
Derek Judge - Bass
Scott - drums

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Karen Hunter Auckland, New Zealand

New Zealander Kāren Hunter uses guitar, voice, mandolin and loops to create heart charged soundscapes that draw deep from the well of our collective spirit.
These are love songs to Papatuānuku / Mother Earth, freshly baked under the fire of Ranginui / Sky Father.

Each album has it's own role in her collection, from rootsy songs, Celtic dub to Yoga music, Kāren is a diverse and eclectic composer. ... more

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