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Witch Wolf

from BE HERE NOW by The Mynabirds

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January 25, 2017
This song is pure, unadulterated, unresolved anger. I sat with the conflict at the center of the Native American proverb: when two parts of you are at war like two wolves in battle, which wolf survives? The one you feed. In the Standing Rock conflict, I was forever inspired by and admiring of the restraint and power with which the Native people fight. Obama had halted the pipeline in the final days of his presidency; and then Trump overturned it with a swift executive order. I channeled the anger and sadness of generations of Native Americans continually wronged by the American government as I sang that song.

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The war is raging

And it’s inside me

I don’t know which wolf 
I want to feed

WHICH WOLF

WITCH WOLF

WHICH WOLF

DO I WANT TO FEED?

The lines are drawn

And I can see the enemy

I know how good he’d taste

Between my teeth

WHICH WOLF

WITCH WOLF

WHICH WOLF

DO I WANT TO BE?

I feel the venom

Creeping up on me

I see your black snake 

Around my feet

I’m angry

I’m seething

This heat in my veins

Your power

Your poison

Is mine
Is ours

To take take take

I will not suffer

Under your attack

My blood is boiling

Ten generations back

WHICH WOLF

WITCH WOLF

WHICH WOLF?

How do we get around? 

Go straight to the heart

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from BE HERE NOW, released August 25, 2017

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The Mynabirds Los Angeles, California

American singer-songwriter Laura Burhenn is a shape-shifter who can’t sit still. Since 2010 she’s worked under the moniker The Mynabirds, releasing three critically acclaimed and stylistically different albums on Saddle Creek: What We Lose in the Fire We Gain in the Flood (2010) and GENERALS (2012), both produced by Richard Swift, and Lovers Know (2015). ... more

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