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TRIVIA:
- This song has not yet been officially released.
- Part 1 of this song and part 1 of "Dripping Trees" were originally the same song.

WORDS FROM KRISTIN:
"A couple of guys spilled off their motorcycle in front of us and dies instantly, under a full moon. That desert moon that still shines on LA through the light noise. It actually seemed extra dark right then, even with the neon and the streetlights glaring and that crazy moon. The men crumpled to the ground and then froze in two homunculus heaps as their motorcycle spun away and crashed on its own against the sidewalk.
When we saw that the cops were gonna leave the men lying there, we realized they were no longer men, but bodies. All us traffic people who were still alive took a minute to feel sad and then we drove on. Our car was headed for the real desert, the unspoiled one, the one that gets so freakishly dark, you can't see your own feet. Sparks and sparklers light up the stuff that really matters there.
And when the sun appears, it opens everything up to squinting eyeballs. No secrets in the daytime desert. You cook and blister in its expansiveness and freeze in its contracted shadows. This is rising to an occasion though, so it doesn't hurt.
Keep driving. Cross the bottom of the country and watch the landscape green up and wet itself down. Rain seeps through everything in the American south, whether it's raining or not. Just the memory of past rain soaks the trees, whose branches hang heavy and drip mystery moisture. Sparks and sparklers light up the dayhere.
And rising to this landscape's occasion means clean dreaming, swearing off parody, soaking in wicked memories that drip off the branches like so much forgotten rain.
Love, Kristin"

"Cherry Candy"
(written by Kristin Hersh)

Part 1:
Cherry candy
Sparkler tongue
I hope we won't be friends for long
Desert snowfalls melt by noon
The motorcycle crash and the moon
It was just a blister
The sun shone
On the city harder
Than it did at home

Part 2:
Your sandy profile
A wild high tide
?
It was just a blister
The sun shone
On the city harder
Than it did at home



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