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The Fire

by Gat Moony

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If you follow me you may have heard this song last year when I played it for my Tiny Desk Contest video. I recorded it soon after and planned on releasing it but never got around to it. I wrote the poem/lyrics after driving my some pit mines in Arizona. I'm from New Mexico so I've seen these mines my whole life but for some reason this time it sparked these words of violence in my mind and after years I built this song as a reflection of the violence we inflict upon the earth and the indifference we seem to feel despite the repercussions.

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I wonder what the mountains used to look like
before we started blowing off their heads
hollowing their bodies like ripe melons
melting down and auctioning their gilded flesh
now they're carved like stairs that lead to nowhere
terraces of ever-barren farm
feeding crops with rivulets of acid
perfect copper fruit
victimless harm
victimless harm

I wonder what the forests used to look like
before the charred remains of ancient trees
were laid to rest in beds of their own ashes
from dense wooden skyscrapers
to mounds of hot debris
I've heard the plumes of oxygen
flowing from their leaves
were rich and thick enough as to be seen
clearly as the smog of modern cities
but that was all before the two degrees
two degrees

what it it used to be
means nothing to me
I will deny the fire
until it comes for me

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released April 23, 2021
Written, performed and recorded by Gabi Montoya

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Gat Moony Seattle, Washington

Gat Moony is the solo project of Seattle-based singer-songwriter Gabi Montoya (leader of Tucson bands Taco Sauce and Juju Fontaine). The multi-instrumentalist expanded her skill set as a producer when she self-recorded and released her debut EP, if you think its dark now, on which she played every instrument from bass to banjo. The EP is out on Bandcamp and will be streaming on April 21, 2023 ... more

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