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HOW TO BREAK A SPELL

Every day for a hundred days I changed my name,
I stopped looking in the mirror at my face,
I wrote down everything I knew to forget it all,
I danced naked in my backyard to the crow’s caw.

This is how you break a spell
This is how you forget all the stories you tell
This is how you break a spell
This is how you forget all the stories you tell.

Burnt a lock of my lover’s hair in a bowl of clay,
I laid down in the middle of the Devil’s Highway,
I howled at the yellow moon ‘til my hair turned grey,
I was fragile for once took off my brave face.

This is how you break a spell
This is how you forget all the stories you tell
This is how you break a spell
This is how you forget all the stories you tell
The stories you te-e-e-ell

Everybody has a - everybody has a - everybody has a tale to tell
And who am I? And who am I? And who am I to break this spell?
Pick a dandelion, make a wish, blow those seeds into the air.

This is how you break a spell
This is how you forget all the stories you tell
This is how you break a spell
This is how you forget all the stories you tell
The stories you te-e-e-ell
The stories you te-e-e-ell
The stories you te-e-e-ell

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from You Wanted to Be the Shore but Instead You Were the Sea, released September 30, 2020

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Natalie D-Napoleon Santa Barbara, California

Natalie D-Napoleon is an Australian-American singer-songwriter and poet who formed a US-based trio with Kenny Edwards (Linda Ronstadt) and Dan Phillips. Natalie’s latest album, You Wanted to Be the Shore But Instead You Were the Sea, was recorded with one mic in a hundred year old chapel and features Phillips along with James Connolly (Van Dyke Parkes) and Doug Pettibone (Lucinda Williams). ... more

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