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a new song by amanda, for launceston amanda palmer - piano u0026 vocals this whole album was made possible with support from 15,000 patrons funding me at https://patreon.com/amandapalmer. i would not have had the ability to do this without them. all profits from this album go to Firesticks Alliance; an Indigenous led network re-invigorating and teaching cultural land burning and management. featuring BRIAN VIGLIONE of THE DRESDEN DOLLS on drums and JHEREK BISCHOFF on bass u0026 guitar LYRICS: walking through the woods i saw a sign nailed to a tree i knew the sign was meant for girls like me who couldn’t read a man with a girl by the throat a bottle of dettol a bottle of rum and a painting of smoke coming off of a settler’s roof it looked just like a house i knew walking down the street i saw a sign nailed to a tree i knew the sign was made for girls like me who couldn’t read the rain came down i shut my eyes i opened them again i tried real hard to make some sense of what the pictures meant a man hanging down from a tree a man that look something like me a bottle of dettol a bottle of pills and a painting of smoke coming out of a house on fire it looked just like my neighbors house C is for civilized now we will make you and B is for baptism now we will name you and P its for petticoat pretty and fitting now here is the paper that said you were willing old prescriptions left in bottles you don’t give that to a child human chains that stretch for miles you don’t give that to a child time is up suck it up buttercup walking to the bar i saw a sign nailed to a tree i knew the sign was meant for girls like me who couldn’t read i tried my best to understand but still i feel i’ve failed i even tried to cut myself i even did my nails a woman tied up in the back of a truck a man in a uniform a man with his pants down and a man with a gun a bottle of dettol and painting of smoke coming off of the tasman strait it looked just the maps from school D is for devil and also for daughter and T is for truth and S is for slaughter and R is for Rapist and F is for Father its time for the test here’s your pencil and paper and B is for Brother who hid in the bedroom and F is for friend who stood by and did nothing and Q is for quarrelsome crass little girl and E’s for the end of the W world old prescriptions left in bottles you don’t give that to a child human chains that stretch for miles you don’t give that to a child time is up suck it up buttercup walking through the woods i saw a sign nailed to a tree i saw the picture of the girl i knew the girl was me i’m sorry that you had to waste your paint on everyone i’m sorry that i’m still alive i’m sorry i’m so dumb A is for i’m then i saw the sign catch on fire the tree catch on fire the woods catch on fire the world catch on fire and then i saw my mother walking out of the embers she said no more trees means no more hangings no more words and no more learning no more fighting no more fire go to sleep now mama’s tired no more trees and no more hangings no more words and no more learning no more fighting no more fire go to sleep now mama’s tired go to sleep now mama’s tired go to sleep now mama’s tired