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In Order To Survive

from The Women Who Rode Away by Natalia Zukerman

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lyrics

The body is heroic
It can learn and unlearn to think
Erasing like magic marker
What is written in permanent ink
Dreams become a reservoir
Blank canvas on an easel
Wild and feral
Images ancestral
I haven’t had that one in a long time
You in grey stripes and skeleton
The dirty cot you’re lying in
I’ve had that one over and over again
But those white men marching in the streets
Made my heart skip a beat
And when I went to sleep
You were all that I could see

If telling this story makes it real
Then it’s my duty to repeat it
It might turn out we need it
In order to survive

I hope you’re never asked to choose
To tell on a friend or neighbor
They must have promised her they'd save her
My worst fear is my best guess
All we have is this old picture
And no idea what she was doing there
With stiff wool suits and stiff salutes
And a baby at her breast
But they took her anyway
Marched her family to the grave
While the death orchestra played

If telling this story makes it real
Then it’s my duty to repeat it
It might turn out we need it
In order to survive


In order to survive

I have a cousin who’s a painter
I come from a family of makers
Me and him paint the same things
Even though we’ve never met
Gruesome and beautiful
Fear and cortisol
Running stronger through us now
Like that instinct to survive….

If telling this story makes it real
Then it’s my duty to repeat it
It might turn out we need it
In order to survive

credits

from The Women Who Rode Away, released February 1, 2019
Natalia Zukerman: guitar, vocals
Eve Sicular: drums
Pam Fleming: flugelhorn
Debra Kreisberg: clarinet
Dave Hofstra: bass
Mona Tavakoli: percussion

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Natalia Zukerman Brooklyn, New York

Musician, painter and educator Natalia Zukerman grew up in New York City, studied art at Oberlin, started her mural business Off The Wall in San Francisco, began her songwriting career in Boston, and now resides, writes, plays, teaches and paints in Brooklyn, NY. ... more

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