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Kaitlyn ni Donovan



Last Updated: 11/23/2009

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City: Portland
State: Oregon
Country: US

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August 25, 2009 - Tuesday 
Tiny Twigs
Ma's garden
two feet of peace boys will be
stomping on any
color that comes from the dirt
From the air, across the sea
ma they don't know, the boys are coming
Two and fro
building a home above our door
I want to move
and every year you I ask you when
From the air, across the sea
ma they don't know the boys are coming
Words and Music ©1999 by Kaitlyn ni Donovan
 
Kaitlyn's Notes: I in my preteen years lived in a low income housing project full of drunks and glue sniffersin Alaska.  My mom whould try to grow a flower bed to pretty up the shit hole that this place was. Without fail the neighborhood boys would always stomp and destroy it any signs of garden progress. Beautiful little birds in the spring would build a nest above our door only to have the boys put a fire cracker in it and blow it to bits. I really really hated living there.  I left home at 16 to escape.









rachel taylor brown

 
Horrible to live around people who love breaking things and stomping on beauty.  I know exactly what you mean.  You made a beautiful song and a beautiful video.  Thank you for sharing the story behind it. p.s. I'm still dodging those people.

 
Posted by rachel taylor brown on August 27, 2009 - Thursday - 2:45 AM
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milli

 
so glad you 'escaped' to write an' sing an' play beautiful music for the world, for me! thank you! luv milli ox 
 
Posted by milli on August 27, 2009 - Thursday - 2:45 AM
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jeffplaysdrums

 
Brian Eno once said that sometimes beautiful things grow out of shit. Well to my mind, Tiny Twigs is such a beautiful beautiful song... maybe the high quality of shit that it came from had a positive bearing in the end.

http://vimeo.com/2011331

 
Posted by jeffplaysdrums on September 15, 2009 - Tuesday - 6:13 AM
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