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Artist: Gabriel Kahane
Canonical path: /gabriel-kahane/baedeker
Related lyric paths: 6
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Baedeker
Read Baedeker lyrics by Gabriel Kahane on LyroVerse, with linked artist context and related song paths.
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Baedeker
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Raise a black-heeled sky
Put it up to the Moon
Shaking the sand
From your mind
Delay, dead of night
When you reach
For the baedeker
Leather bound book
From another time
Red line for railroad
Black line for river
Carving the country
Sweetbread and liver
Maps that tell secrets
Maps that run backward
Learn to be lost now
Learn to be shattered
A dream where you don't feel right
On your knees in an open field
Startled by silence
You don't recognize
White light on a thousand lakes
Like paths of glass that someone breaks
Before the barefoot contortionist
Makes her grand debut
Blood leaks from the frozen Moon
You think about the wound
And wonder who will die?
Amber Nebraska
Pink Minnesota
Mint green for Kansas
Blue North Dakota
Red line for railroad
Black line for river
Carving the country
Sweetbread and liver
Raise a black-heeled sky
Put it up to the Moon
Shaking the sand
From your mind
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Gabriel Kahane performs "Baedeker", and this lyric page sits inside the Gabriel Kahane catalog on LyroVerse.
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