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Gardenias and Cigarettes

from The Aviary by Ana Silvera

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Water on shingle and vagrant hours
That stumble round this sun-struck town
And white lantern blossoms
With torn off wings
Break from their branches
With pale yearning

Oh my mind came unmoored in the night
You set it adrift
With a kiss that was sweeter
Than anyone else's
That I've known before then or since
Oh gardenias and cheap cigarettes
On your mouth and your fingers I tasted

In the name, on the hands and the back of love
Ships were raised and lovers fought
And the Gods above watched from a ringside box
As cities were wasted to ashes and dust

I saw you go through a low window
By the idle tide of dusk
And I should have seen through those arrows and bows
That even golden apples rust

Oh my mind came unmoored in the night
You set it adrift
With a kiss that was sweeter
Than anyone else's
That I've known before then or since
Oh gardenias and cheap cigarettes
On your mouth and your fingers I tasted

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from The Aviary, released March 12, 2012
Performed & written by Ana Silvera Vocals/Guitar: Ana Silvera Cello: Jon Cottle Accordion: Anja McCloskey Bass: Brad Waissman Drums: Adam Falkner
Recorded at Miloco Studios, London
Produced by Ray Singer
Mixed by Daniel Rejmer

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Ana Silvera London, UK

'Stunning...magical storytelling' -The Guardian

Ana Silvera is a London-born singer- songwriter and composer whose folk and bluegrass-tinged tunes are lyrical, intimate and emotive, works of ‘lavish, vivid imagination’ (Metro). ... more

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