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I am looking through a window
At the silver, silk, and golden,
At the things I will never own or touch
And my heart is filled with sorrow
And my spirit’s lost and broken
And the weight of this world is too much
Why did I leave my home across the sea?

I wasn’t thinking clearly
Everything that I held dearly
I left behind with my waving hand
To work as a seamstress
In my hunger and my weakness,
Fourteen hour days in a foreign land
Why did I leave my home across the sea?

I wish I could fall asleep again
Where it’s safe and warm
A night where I didn’t feel alone
I would fall and sleep and dream again
In my mother’s arms
If I wasn’t so very far from home

The tenement is teeming with rickets and with weeping
Children like potatoes plucked from dirt
My fevers growing scarlet and I can’t afford the garments
That I sow all day long while I am at work
Why did I leave my home across the sea?

Words and Music by David Mussen

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from Little America, released July 19, 2017
Jonathan Hughes: bass, electric guitar, organ
Sally Fehskens: vocals
David Mussen: electric piano

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We aren't a band in the traditional sense. We all participate in the Robot Holiday Collective (www.robotholiday.com) and enjoy marrying our passion for making music with our desire to help others, and make this a more fair and just society.

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