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Phoenix

by Jessica Smucker

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You have a fire in your belly
that lit you up in Tennessee
where you were taking names and stoking flames
and learning how to break your spirit free

Bright and brazen bird
Your journey has begun
You turn your body west to face the sun

Now your breasts have turned to shadows
There's radiation in your spine
And this is your terrain, you cut the pain, you face the day,
there's more to life than dying

Oh, fighting bird
You’re cocked up like a gun
You turn your body west to face the sun

So you rise up in your power
and you find a way to fly
all the way to Arizona
where the feather-crested fires go to die

Bright and broken bird
a plume of oxygen
you turn your body west to face the sun

credits

released March 11, 2022
Written by Jessica Smucker, copyright 2019
Produced and recorded by Chad Kinsey
Mixed by Peter Rydberg at Studio 1935
Mastered by Dan Coutant at Sun Room Audio

Matt Thomas: piano, synths, orchestrations
Paul Murr: drums and percussion
Mike Bitts: bass
Chad Kinsey: guitars

Lyric video animation by Haley Monson

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Jessica Smucker Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Jessica has performed all over the Eastern U.S. and has won several national songwriting contests including the Connecticut Folk Festival and SolarFest. She has opened for notable acts like Cheryl Wheeler and Bill Staines, and shared festival stages with Patty Larkin, Dar Williams and Antje Duvekot. Her third full-length album, Lucid Stories, Tentative Lies, is due out in September 2020. ... more

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