Hey there book lovers who are also music lovers – we have two pairs of tickets to give away to the Calexico show at Emo’s East next Wednesday, January 23. Want them? Tell us your favorite Calexico lyric in the comments below (words are important to us, you know) and we’ll draw a winner at random on Monday, January 21.
Good luck!
BookPeople 
With a head like a vulture/ And heart full of hornets/ He drives off the cliff/ Into the blue, into the blue
“Not Even Stevie Nicks” – Feast of Wire
This has always been one of my favorite of Joey’s images:
“Spotted an eagle in the middle of a lake
Resting on cactus, feasting on snakes
But the waters recede as the
Dump closes in, revealing a whole lake
Of sleeping children.”
from “Across the Wire” on the album Feast of Wire
“You are draped in white like the blossoms of the tree.” Two Silver Trees
From “Two Silver Trees” —
You are draped in white like the blossoms of the tree / Looking down a glass elevator
Two silver trees, two silver trees
“Hush-a-bye. Don’t you cry. Go to sleep, you little baby.” -All The Pretty Horses
Becky C.!!!! You have won a pair of tickets to see Calexico! Please send an email to online@bookpeople.com to claim your prize!
Sleeping in the valley, the valley of ill fortune
The injustices of our greed
The practices we merit
The dirt, scarcity and emptiness
Of our south
Bebe mi vino de amor
Besos de kerosina
Volvierdo el mar en infierno!
No news, no new regrets
Tossed a Susan B. over my shoulder
and prayed it would rain and rain
submerge the whole Western states
“Stranded on a rock, stranded on a sea. There”s a wall in the ocean between you and me.” Sinner in the Sea.
“One eye in the mirror, the other on the screen
Sewn in the pockets and down into the dream”
-Splitter
“All the coins you dove after lost all their spell.” Splitter
“I live out yonder, where the snakes and scorpions run.”
Jennifer!!!! You have won a pair of tickets to see Calexico! Please send an email to online@bookpeople.com to claim your prize!
If I never told you how you helped to rescue
The car and all inside
Remember roads were steep and
You and I went sliding down the grade from Gate’s Pass
-Slowness
From Service and Repair:
In the shadows of chain-store ghost towns
Where no one walks the streets at night
A silent nation hooked on medication
Stares into a blue flickering light
on mended broken wings
turning to see your reaction
a tear drop fills your eye
but you protest not to give up as give in
heading straight for the wreckage
picking up a shovel and a hoe
start putting back the bricks one by one
numbers come out of the woodwork
corious to see the rebirth
above the swollen clouds
a strange sound fills the air
a silence never heard
falling like blessed rain
and the swallows return
as the mission bells ring
These are Woven Birds Lyrics
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Not even, the priestess, with her wrenches and secret powers, could save him, from danger, for a little while…
He slept āneath the stars / Wrote down what he dreamt / And he built a machine
For no one to see / Then took flight, first light / Of new morning
– “Sunken Waltz”
Clay Cooper
If you want a new life
Whats a few minutes wait
“Across the Wire”
I should’ve stayed way out yonder Better off with the scorpions and snakes…
Thank you, Julie for the tickets. Calexico was awesome!
Yay! Glad you guys had a good time!