Desert

from Eight Tracks by Ana Balka

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Push your fingernails into the sand. This is no playground, this lonely land. Come with a bucket, leave on your hands, and another year rolls along. I come for a favor. I've come to ask you to do for me all that I can't seem to do. A century bloom for an everyday sum, an opera out of your whispering stone. You can scream at the sky, it won't recognize. Lick your own tears: the well, it's run dry. Run in circles and ask yourself why you keep going back to the desert for a drink.

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from Eight Tracks, released June 29, 2014
Ana Balka: vocals, electric guitar
Dave Felce: guitar

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Ana Balka Atlanta, Georgia

Ana Balka is a multi-instrumentalist/ songwriter in Atlanta, GA. Formerly of Ballien Rennan, The White Lights, Lowlife Quartet, Superstar Pillowfight. Ana is also a member of honky-tonk rockers JJ and the Hustlers. Photo: Kat West. See also talla.bandcamp.com/releases ... more

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