Animals Need Animals

from The Orion Songbook by Frontier Ruckus

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lyrics

The teeth of your black ditch are sweet like the rest
Of the thin-lipped, sharp-hipped
Fierce things that animals show
White like the laughter of smoke in the chest
Long after
The brightness of the fields’ teeth go
The child-mother yells in violent madness
But your tight skin confessed not a vein in your chest
And the way that your breast did hang low

Animals need animals before the winter comes
The metal air swarms across those plains
My long-necked, freckle-specked
Heavy-chested, trust-invested
Sows her breath into my chest and hums
Now what kind of county line
Holds her remains

Your gray frame in winter is delicately hued
The eyes are so wearisome
The greens have all blued
And what could it mean
That they once were so green
And now they’re just starving for food
And I am hungry too
For you

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from The Orion Songbook, released November 6, 2008

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Frontier Ruckus Detroit, Michigan

Michigan band inviting you to enter a dense & dimming world.

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Apr 27

Grewal Hall at 224

Lansing, MI
May 10

The Stoller Hall

Manchester, UK
May 12

Leeds Irish Centre

Leeds, UK
May 16

The Gate Arts & Community Centre

Cardiff, UK
May 21

Union Chapel

London, UK
May 25

The Windmill, Brixton

Brixton, UK

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