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Heart Mountain

from 1942 by No-No Boy

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Good years on a mountain, primrose on the sill
Good years on a mountain, in the house that we build

Some star-crossed, outlaw love in the movies is cool
But over and over, our hearts are rapped by the rules
Dream, do not do, don’t dare drift from the pew
No serpent slain final curtain, no Byronic revue
Hush hun, tell no one, this one’s for you
Hush hun and hold it, trust it as true

Born to western mountains, three states from my hills
A long decade onward, a great gap to fill
Of travel and reference, yet I imagine us still
Old queens in Okinawa, springs of sonnets fulfilled
Hush hun and hold on, a daydream must do
Hush hun and hold it, trust it as true

From my lover’s brass bed, I catch alabaster snow
While you cross the bay bridge, with a boy who’s right to boast
of his companion’s classic beauty, like the Agave in bloom,
hills of Kurinji flowers where infinity’s consumed
Hush hun and hold on, like your teenage tattoo
or your beautiful belly, or your perfect crooked tooth
Your language is my language, wet lips in laundry rooms
Hush hun and hold on, daydreams must do

Good years on a mountain, with so much love that it spills
and runs down in rivers past the house that we build
We’ll sail down those rivers through my soft sunburnt hills
in a boat brimmed with books, capes of music, cups filled
Oh, teach me faith over fear, hear my heart as she thrills
and bellows and echoes with unconquerable will
Writing postcards from every province, picking primrose for the sill
Good years on a mountain in the house that we build
Good years on a mountain in the house that we build

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from 1942, released September 21, 2018

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No-No Boy Portland, Oregon

Nashville-born, Oregon musician & scholar. New album "Empire Electric out on Smithsonian Folkways fall 2023.

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