Wildflower

from Wildflower by Jodie Jean Marston

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Wildflower was recorded by Phil Elverum at Unknown studio, Anacortes, WA in 2014. I took my good time releasing it! Family & farm take priority. Happy to say kids are older & there's more time for publishing music.

This song's about the lonesome wildflowers of the Sierra Nevada, surviving just about anything. They always find their way up, through heartbreak & death finding a way to bloom again.

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Wildflower
Words and Music by Jodie Jean Marston

Bush lupine void of malice,
comes up through the brush with a lilac phallus
Into the love of the Sierra sun
Into the love of the Sierra sun
Into the love of the Sierra sun

Treat every gun like it’s loaded
Treat everyone with love
Put away that foolish notion
Walk out into the sun
Walk out into the sun

You can’t break a heart that’s broken
You can’t break a heart made outta stone
You can’t break a heart that’s open
Can’t tell the wind, not to blow
Can’t tell the wind, not to blow

Wildflower, wildflower, I am a wildflower

My true love is dead and gone
Wasting time is just plain wrong
Still I think what might have been
When the rain comes to the mountain
When the rain comes to the mountain

There are those who’ll stake a claim
On the cracked red dirt
Where no proper garden grows
There's a little flower coming up through the snow
A little flower coming up through the snow

I ground the herbs and plant the song
You don’t remind me when I am wrong
And what more could a love want
Than to be set free anytime she wants

Wildflower, wildflower, I am a wildflower

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from Wildflower, released May 7, 2021

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Jodie Jean Marston Talent, Oregon

Jodie Jean Marston started playing live in 1986. Jodie Jean has lived and toured all over the US and internationally. She was born and raised in the Sierra Nevada foothills in the town of Tuolumne City, CA. She is also a maker of magic, mother and runs a small farm with a flock of sheep. Songs are recorded in Talent, Oregon at Cosmic Cowgirl Records. ... more

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