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Half​-​handed Cloud - Christmas Baby's Last Straw

from Merry Christmas (2022) by badgerland

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lyrics

That was the last straw
we’ll move the ornaments
to the top of the tree
Couldn’t follow law
we’ll take them from the hands of the baby

Into the forest where something shines
all that I want is beyond my reaching
my hands want shiny and my heart pines
for everything so that I’m beseeching:
Give me the shiny
shiny ornaments
and confess that my mess needs bleaching!

Baby on the straw
who stretched out for us
when we were out of reach
All of us he foresaw
on the upper half of the
Christmas tree

Beyond the grasp in another place
coming to earth from a different dimension
bending the precepts of time and space
for every chance to get our attention
we are shining shiny stars
who wait for reunion
in the ascension!

Can we feel that Christmas baby’s reach?

credits

from Merry Christmas (2022), released December 18, 2022
Songwriting, playing, arrangements, singing, recording, production,
and mastering at Bureau Of Radiophonic Research (BRR), Helsinki,
Finland, November 2022 by John Ringhofer

Instruments: amplified balloons, bass guitar, bass Melodion, classical
guitar, floor tom, glockenspiel, handclaps, jingle bells, Magnus air
organ, manipulated tape, melodica, piano, snare drum, strummed
radiator, tambourine, triangle, whistle, wood blocks

Recorded onto the ½" reel-to-reel tape machine.

Thanks to Brandon Buckner for EQ tips.

Half-h has two different Bandcamp pages, and search for this year's
album "Flutterama" out on Asthmatic Kitty Records.
half-handedcloud.bandcamp.com + halfhandedcloud.bandcamp.com

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Badgerland is based in Southwestern Ontario, Canada and gathers songs from across Canada, the US, and the world.

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