We’ve updated our Terms of Use to reflect our new entity name and address. You can review the changes here.
We’ve updated our Terms of Use. You can review the changes here.

50​,​000 Words For Snow

by True Margrit

/

  • Streaming + Download

    Purchasable with gift card

     

1.
50,000 Names 03:52
lyrics
download
lyrics: everything you saw obeys a natural law that is somehow flawed the stream of time might get dammed up make your empty look like half a cup reason comprehends beginning middle end it can’t suspend the disbelief that cells & bones somehow fit into alternate zones inventing space where there’s no place how can you be standing with your hand out catching the rain that does not exist inventing 50,000 lists crawling from the sea seven days a week makes it hard to reach past the dunes where more evolved creatures count on fingers to problem solve inventing tools for breaking the rules easier than banging rocks together shivering waiting for the flame inventing 50,000 names it’s lonely and it’s dull here inside this skull unless you’re inventing rules for breaking the tools rearranging time & space to satisfy all your situations and tastes inventing 50,000 fates
2.
The Thirty Words For Snow 04:01
lyrics
download
lyrics: in northern lands you gotta know the thirty words for snow sometimes it melts away so fast when you want to last softly how it lies on the earth in helpless surrender but don’t curse the sun the spring made it show you only have one word for snow it’s up to you to conjure clouds and coax their treasure down every storm that never falls would come if you could call softly whisper an imperfect name never are there two the same but don’t curse the sun the spring made it show you only have one word for snow you will walk through desert heat never will you see that exact splintered light over fields of white softy how you lay entwined with a season so rare to find but don’t curse the sun the spring made it show you only have one word for snow one word for snow

about

Why does the caged poet sing? What and how does she sing? Let me count the ways. The words, names, numbers, slip sneakily through the bars off into the night. Each day dawns with the challenge and charge of having more to say. Always more. And in honor of this rampant multiplicity, there's a sub-genre in the True Margrit Catalog--the "number songs". On our 2010 album, "The Juggler's Progress" we had: "500 Years" and "50,000 Names." On our upcoming album we will feature "The 500 Block of A Thousand Oaks" and the mathematical-metaphor-laden, "Obvious Solutions". Mmm, mathy.

It’s not a brand new trope--long ago, in 1999 we released "Deceptively True" which included "The Thirty Words for Snow" So, imagine my surprise to hear that one of my very favorite artistes of all time--the one and only, illustrious, fabulous Kate Bush-- has a new album dropping this very month called, "50 Words for Snow"!! Whoa. What are the odds? 50,000 to 1? Thus, on the magical date of 11/11/11 (All ones! Nothing is bigger than one!), we offer a special free download "single" called: 50,000 Words For Snow and you get: TWO SONGS FREE-- "The Thirty Words for Snow" AND "50,000 Names".

The number for the price is zero. A zero. It's a circle. It has no beginning, middle, or end. It goes on forever, it is eternal, it never stops. But it never starts. It mysteriously contains the entirety of the ever-expanding cosmos. It holds the great nothingness of the void. It will afford you hours of entertainment. And scare the bejesus out of you. And lead you gently home.

There's so much more to say--but I'm trying to keep it to fifty thousand words or less.

credits

released November 11, 2011

license

all rights reserved

tags

about

True Margrit San Francisco

contact / help

Contact True Margrit

Streaming and
Download help

Shipping and returns

Redeem code

Report this album or account

If you like True Margrit, you may also like:

Bandcamp Daily  your guide to the world of Bandcamp

On Bandcamp Radio

Featured guests are the golden-voiced Baby Rose and psyche soulsters Brainstory.
listen now