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I took my heart to the butcher

by lo-fi lioness

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With nods to William Blake's Marriage of Heaven and Hell, the song "I Sold My Heart to the Junkman" (as performed by Patti LaBelle and Her Blue Belles), and Velvet Underground's "Heroin."

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I took my heart
I took my heart
To the butcher

She put the "butch"
She put the "butch"
In butcher

She laid my heart
On the cutting board
And probed it with her fingers

This meat, she said,
Is too flawed
And too bruised for me to use

I thanked her
I bought a skirt steak
And I went home, alone

The girl you loved so much is gone
The girl you loved so much is gone
I’m in her body now

I took my heart
I took my heart
To the junkman, yeah

He took my heart
He held it to the light
He put it on a scale

He handed me
A table lamp
With a dusty blue shade

I’ll make you a trade,
He said,
Your heart for this lamp

It still has light
It still has life
I took my lamp, and I left

There is a filament inside me
There is a filament inside me
I think it’s starting to glow.

There is a firmament inside me
I guess, but I don’t know
There is a galaxy inside me
I guess, but I just don’t know

Don’t guess, she said. Just trust
Just trust that you know
She said:

The eagle never lost so much time
As when she studied with the crow

The eagle never lost so much time
As when she submitted to the crow

credits

released January 15, 2023
written + recorded January 3-14, 2023

hazel jane: guitars, percussion, + voice

the cover (designed by Agatha K.) includes an illustration by Jehan de Grise & his workshop from the Romance of Alexander (1338–1410), f. 59r. Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford

recorded on the unceded ancestral territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and sə̓lílwətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations

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lo-fi lioness Vancouver, British Columbia

lo-fi music by Hazel Jane Plante, a queer writer and cat photographer. based on the unceded ancestral territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, and sə̓lílwətaʔɬ Nations

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