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Family Tree

from Simple Machines by Stef on a Clear Day

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She offered to buy me a sun dress.
No thanks, i'll wear a tie instead.

I'll admit, I talk shit
i'm your grandkid
don't forget

I am (and i'm not) a beautiful and unique snowflake
what's mine is hers and hers is mine
this gender, it was assigned
just like our mother's
but you'd wished for another.

So granddad, please, tell me this:
have you always been a misogynist?
Were you a jerk before the war?
Can you tell me what you were fighting for?

Was it for the boys?
The boys, the boys,
it was – for the boys.

And Grandma says
she cooks and she cleans
and she smiles when you're mean
and this is how to make 60 years last.
She said it without a flinch:
this is how to make 60 years last.

So, to my elders, aunts and uncles,
my sister and cousins:
this iron that runs in our veins
toxicity in the branches of this tree
this iron inside of you and me
it does not have to stop our hearts
to remind us that we bleed.

Iron in my veins, where do you think you are going?

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from Simple Machines, track released January 8, 2016

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Stef on a Clear Day sings the intimacy of deep secrets and brings fading memories to life through storytelling, live-looping, electro-acoustic songscapes, micro-ballads, and poetic pleas.

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