Lover Earth
Bm - A
[intro jam a count of 4, no line at beginning]
Sometimes a warrior rests in the weeds
Waiting for conditions and planting seeds [x4]
[bass line]
I treated you like my mother
Took everything you had
I loved you like my mother
Drank from your body with a heavy hand
And now I’m growing up
This doesn’t work for you or me
Now I’m growing up
I guess I see you differently
You’re my LOVER, MY LOVER EARTH [x4]
[bass line – one count Bm to A breathe]
Em - Bm [x3]
F# over Bm - A
Tigers coming out to play
And I push you away
Scratched me full across the face
Put you in your place
I know these cavern walls so well
Hide here my darkest lights
Oh these cavern walls (from hell)
Screaming out with all my might
You’re my LOVER, MY LOVER EARTH [x4]
[bass line – one count Bm to A breathe]
Em - Bm [x3]
F# over Bm - A
No such thing as dichotomy
Please lover, walk with me [x3]
No such thing as dichotomy
More for you is more for me
Are we not warriors?
In this relentless search for truth
Are we not warriors?
Wipe your nose, ground down through the root [warrior section x2]
My lover, my lover Earth [x4]
Sometimes a warrior rest in the weeds
Waiting for conditions and planting seeds [x4]
Are we not warriors?
In this relentless search for truth
Are we not warriors?
Wipe your nose, ground down through the root [warriors x2]
[end on bass line]
—Jessica Vega Gonzalez
Note: “Sometimes a warrior rests in the weeds” originated from KT Rusch.
bhanu warriors jess' song
monsters who want something else
waiting for conditions and planting seeds
I treated you “as a matter of survival”
took everything you had
drank from your body with a heavy hand
and now I’m growing up
“I want to write opposites”
Tigers coming out to play
and I push you away
I know these cavern walls so well
Hide here my darkest lights
begin the night of writing
these cavern walls
Please lover, walk with me
I choose a basic word
More for you is more for me
deep inside what I want
are we not warriors?
which is the body
are we not warriors?
and begin there
bhanu warriors jess' song: a monster response arranged by Ching-In Chen from Jessica Vega Gonzalez's song and italicized text from Bhanu Kapil's Incubation: a Space for Monsters (Leon Works, 2006).
