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Track #2 from 2008’s Carried to Dust.
According to an October 2008 interview with Uncut Magazine, frontman Joey Burns of the band Calexico discussed the influence of Norman Dubie’s poetry which he discovered through collaboration with Sam Beam from Iron & Wine, specifically referencing his coll...
[Verse 1: Joey Burns]
There are code breakers with lines well tapped
Traces sweeping out across the static night
You are draped in white like the blossoms of the tree
Looking down a glass elevator
At your father signing the papers for
[Chorus]
Two silver trees, two silver trees
Two worlds in need, two silver trees
Branches falling down
From sources underground
False identities
Stranded in each single seed
[Verse 2]
False sense of warning no poisoned cup
Just deception crawling up like a snake
Decay of the blossoms and roots well hacked
Spoil the hidden waters dying at the base of
[Chorus]
Two Silver Trees was written by John Burns & Joey Burns.
Two Silver Trees was produced by John Convertino & Joey Burns & Craig Schumacher.
Calexico released Two Silver Trees on Tue Sep 09 2008.