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Open Road

by Diane Patterson

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1.
Rogue River Highway 03:34
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Rogue River Highway This river, this road, this place I know home I know the elders and the trees, Sing for the rain in the summer heat I greet the sun most every day Sing for the children where they play But I don’t know if I’d live a day If I was forced to go away FromRogue River Highway Rogue River Highway I’m calling out to the refugees I know you love your homeland I know you’ve had to leave your home I know they’re waging war on your home They want to build a pipeline through your home May your journeys be swift and safe May you be welcomed with warmth and grace May your angels guide you well in flight Rogue River Highway I don’t know if I’d live a day If I was forced to go away But I would pray for a miracle with the good people in flight Yes, I pray with the refugees, strong as I might May all come good, come safe, tonight Rogue River Highway You’re the light as you weave across the valley Carry us on home You’re the light as you weave across the mountains Carry us on home You’re the light as you weave across the grassland Carry us on home You’re the light as you weave across the waters Carry us on home You’re the light as you weave across the desert Carry us on home
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Spliff Song 04:09
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Spliff Song by Diane Patterson Don’t judge me while I smoke this spliff It’s been crazy, just remember this, Sacred chances are, good people rise again Dead branches fall down in the wind Everybody gotta stand in their own body I got to stand in mine Everybody gotta stand with the Water Where true power lies Take me skyward on that grey ghost dance Then dive I naked on the earth I stand True purpose burns with grief and praise Just live this day before it melts away Take me willingly to stand on the front lines Cause I’ll die free before I’ll let you leave me behind Sacred Stone Camp burns an ember bright Be kind, stay in prayer, stay non-violent
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If There Are Words 03:33
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If There Are Words by Diane Patterson If there are words to help me Love my feminine form, Let me speak them If there are words to help me Love more, Let me sing them If there are words to help me Heal my body and mind, Let me speak them If there are words to help me Open my heart, Let me sing them Words have power, Words have might Words can build or Words can fight Words of love are here to teach Words can help the lonesome meet If there are words If there are words to help me Nurture a child, Let me speak them If there are words to help me Defend the wild, Let me sing them If there are words to help me March on, Let me speak them If there are words to help me Dance along, Let me sing them Words have power, Words have might Words can build or Words can fight Words of love are here to teach Words can help the blind ones see If there are words
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Full Moon 05:05
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Full Moon By Diane Patterson Full moon, I’ll be home soon To bright eyes and lullabies Whenever I dream Coming home is a bittersweet Of labors, loves across the sea And searing sunrises Teaching the soul of me All my prayers but one were met On a journey I took to myself Sparking the life in me Waking me, setting me free So I can be Home to this warm fire Full moon Hearts bloom Songs fly Good spirits rise Whenever I see Take me down to the river Where we swim in the summer What will the river tell me now that All’s been broken And set free Take me out to Table Rock Where the Old Ones live I gotta give my mana back to them Full moon, I’ll be home soon
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Baby Loves Love 03:26
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Baby Loves Love by Diane Patterson Baby baby, you love me so good Baby you love me just like you should No matter what danger in this crazy world My heart is quaking for you, bearded girl Baby! Baby loves love Baby! I cry and cry like a dove When you whistle for me I come running Because you love me like no one has done it Jealous fools are watching, they don’t matter Look outside at the times we’re chasing after We were born, mysterious one In a love song, with a war raging on I wanna know your mind Like the land knows the Sun Come and warm me, babe With honey words from your tongue All the pretty girls want you Cause you’re crazy and kind But when you strap on that thing We’re gonna close all the blinds
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Raven 03:56
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Raven by Marca Cassity I am craving flying with the raven Cause she takes me between the two worlds She’s got magic in her dark wings In her heart lies the blue pearl I am hungry and I got some honey And it feels good in my mouth Mama needs some loving and communion But I’m left hanging here too far south So I breathe in the air Invoke the water Honor the earth Burn in the fire Well, it’s ok that it turned out this way Cause I can always use time for myself Time to develop self-love as a habit Cause you sure can’t get that from noone else I hang out with my diseases, I can sure them good as Jesus When I find my own true self Well, that makes people nervous, but I do it nonetheless Cause I think it’s what we came here for We came to breathe in the air Invoke the water Honor the earth Burn in the fire Sometimes I feel like an angel, sometimes I feel like a devil Sometimes I am free, sometimes I am bound I have been recruited, and I’ve persecuted And it just seems to keep coming round I am not afraid of the man today Cause he revealed himself in a past life interaction we had Make no mistake, he burned me at the stake But it did not hurt that bad Because I breathed in the air Invoked the water Honored the earth I burned in the fire I am craving flying with the raven Cause she takes me between the two worlds She’s got magic in her dark wings In her heart lies the blue pearl
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Eagle Feather 05:25
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Eagle Feather by Diane Patterson Hey yea yea yea Hey yea yea yea Hey yea yea yea Hey Lift an eagle feather to the sky Lift a long bow of your mind’s eye, Draw that bow back, Let that arrow fly, Landing like a lullaby Like a waking dream in your mind’s Like a vision streaming from the star world To my own world It’s a prayer in flight Healing like a lullaby Peaceful warrior You are the brave one Standing out on the edge Balancing on the ledge Open that crack like a wedge And step through Watch your bright dream coming true And when the women rise up In the world They’re moving forward for peace now In the twelfth hour It’s a psychic might Bouncing off the mirrors or their minds
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Open Road 03:50
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Open Road/To Corral by Diane Patterson Little boog sitting on a hill Watching all creation Jig and Reel, Jig and Reel Watching all creation Jig and Reel, Jig and Reel Starlight, sunrise, living on an open road Rainfall, hoof fall, living on an open road Moonlight, mare’s wine, Living on an open road Over high mountain pass Following an endless sea of grass to corral With songs in our throats and stories of old, told Living on an open road Altai magtal Living on an open road Swallow’s flown, seeds sown, living on an open road Bird song, moving on, living on an open road River song, while I’m gone, living on an open road Over mountains and seas now, Following songs, on our long ride home Because every ride out is a long ride home Living on an open road Altai magtal Living on an open road
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Shape of Your Sorrow 04:26
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Shape of Your Sorrow by Diane Patterson What is the shape of your sorrow? What is the shape of your sorrow? Scars that heal with time and scars that don’t heal Scars that go away and scars that stay What is the shape of your sorrow? Where were you that night when shots rang out in Orlando? Where were you when the queens and kings of Pulse Died on the dance floor? Where were you, and was your hand on the trigger too Because you hadn’t separated your hatred from your fear? Where were you when loneliness and shame took a young man’s heart? Where were you when loneliness and shame turned him into walking sorrow? What is the shape of your sorrow? Tears that fall on your guitar What is the shape of your sorrow? Tears that fall on your guitar What is the shape of your sorrow? Mine is shaped like a heart bent into a tear drop falling on the dance floor Mine is shaped like a heart bent into a tear drop Falling with the souls, and the blood, and their bodies Mine is shaped like a heart shaking on the dance floor Mine is shaped like a heart, simple free, Simply you, simply me What is the shape of your sorrow? What is the shape of it? Tears that fall on your guitar Nonviolent revolution Tears that fall on your guitar We’re here, we’re queer Tears that fall on your guitar Black lives matter Tears that fall on your guitar El pueblo unido Tears that fall on your guitar Jamás será vencido Tears that fall on your guitar Nonviolent revolution
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Come on Rain 06:23
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Come on Rain by Diane Patterson Come on rain, come on down Come on dance upon this ground Come on rain, come on down Come on, make that holy sound Come on rain, liquid life, Come on, kiss your earthly wife Let your love skin tru her skin Come on, quench her thirst again So many days and nights out praying Down on my knees in the desert like child Alone, running wild All of those days and nights out praying Looking for rain and forgiveness for a child Alone, running wild What have I done I asked of my mother What have I done, I cried of my father I’m just a child alone running wild I’m child of earth alive in a body Gazing into the embers of a fire Singing, I’m not alone I’m a child of earth awake in a body Gazing into the loving eyes of Gaia Singing I’m not alone We are children of earth awakened in body Gazing into this circle made of love Singing, We’re not alone
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Resolved 03:51
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Resolved by Diane Patterson I keep on thankin the holies for the power to stand up Magical and medical, political and spiritual I keep on thankin the holies for the courage to stand up There’s healing in diversity that’s bringing out the best in we On a summer day, I’m like a castaway On a lonesome forest hill listening for songs Spilling over the landscape, songs And i’m quiet as the wild living all around me And the voices of machines disperse, dispell, in silence The sister of divinity, silence And I’m naked there, sharpened in the fire In the absence of a prescribed notion, That’s where I’m going I got a meetin with my maker, I’m going I’m resolved to honor the happiness in everything So I honor the earth There’s a little ending to a really big suffering, ending So I stand with you in healing and forgiveness With waterbirds and fishes, buffalo and eagles For slowing down the war machine, eagles For slowing down the war machine in me For slowing down the war machine in me I’m resolved in silence I’m resolved in chaos Resoved

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released February 23, 2018

Open Road
2018

: produced by :
Mike “Nappy” Napolitano

: drums and percussion :
Terrence Higgins

:bass:
: keys of various shapes & sizes :
Todd Sickafoose

: guitar, Come on Rain :
: backing vocals,
Shape of Your Sorrow :
Ani DiFranco

: guitar Tracks 6, 7 & 8 :
Al Torre

: drums & perc, Come on Rain :
Janelle Burdell

: backing vocals 2, 3, 6, 7, 10 :
Alice DiMicele

: horns on Baby Loves Love :
Max Ribner, Ben Ellman,
Charlie Halloran

: piano on Resolved :
Julian Waterfall Pollack

: vocals, guitars, ukuleles :
Diane Patterson

All songs by Diane Patterson
except Raven, by Marca Cassity


Thanks and blessings to these stellar musicians who’ve joined me and the songs, at home and abroad, in studios both fabulous and humble, wherever you may be. May these songs and recordings be worthy of your expertise and devotion.
::

Thanks to Ani and Nappy
for hosting us and most of this recording in your
New Orleans home studio.
::

All Blessings and Thanks to Martín Prechtel
for massive inspiration in the making of this record, with stories that seep into my lyrics.
Thanks for teaching us to put our little feet on a path toward deep grief and praise. May these songs and the singing of them feed and re-member the holy Ones who feed us.
Thanks Martín — wonderful teacher, author, husband and father — for stories of the boog - the sacred deer, of ancient Mongolia, of rich nomadic life on the steppe, with music, beloved and terrifying life-giving animals, holy Altai mountains where one respectfully dare not tread,
mare’s wine,
whose intoxication
makes the drinker laugh,
and never fight,
and so much more.
::

Thanks to Marca Cassity
for granting me permission
to record her
mighty medicine song, Raven.


While this record was being made,
LaDonna Brave Bull Allard was
doing her part at Standing Rock, as the owner of the land where the DAPL pipeline defiles the Missouri River, to co-lead a movement based on non-violence, on prayer, and on a deep respect for the land and water that goes beyond what we were ever taught in this lost culture but which is LIFE to us. We know it when we see it, and who can blame us for walking toward it. Thank you.

Sacred Stone Camp
burns an ember bright.
Be kind, stay in prayer,
stay non-violent
::
Thank you dear seed-planter and teacher Rowan White
for these words:
Stand with the water,
Where true power lies
::
Thanks to
my beloved Sheba,
my baby loves love,
without whom
none of this would be
quite so shimmering,

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Diane Patterson Ashland, Oregon

Folkgoddess Diane Patterson sings the world awake with powerful voice and revolutionary lyrics. Her sincere spirit and roots storytelling plant seeds of respect and justice. She’s fueled by music-as-activism and love-as-revolution. Made in New Orleans, Diane’s new 2018 album features Mike Napolitano and Ani DiFranco. ... more

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