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Ask around,
it’s Candy’s last day
Pills in her pockets,
there’s a smile on her face
Now and then her eyes glaze
& she waves

See her cry
but not very hard
A short stab of something
slips under her guard
& blocks the sound of passing cars
& stops the wound-up stars

Candy’s kiss is a red weal
Slow slip & sweet spill
Candy’s eyes are islands
but her hands are gulls
& can’t be still

Candy’s eyes are islands
in a rising tide
All ships that sail on her seas
& all planes that fly
sink below the surface
& fall down from the sky.

Candy’s kiss is a red weal
Slow slip & sweet spill
Candy’s eyes are islands
but her hands are gulls
& can’t be still
& fly away
on Candy’s last day.

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from Best of Parker & Lily, released November 27, 2016

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Monk Parker Austin, Texas

Pitchfork says "Mournful & elegant, big & brassy... the exquisite dejection is almost celebratory", Rolling Stone France calls his most recent release “perfect, just perfect”, and El Pais declared a recent Madrid performance "monstrously sad & brilliantly anachronistic”.

The new full-length solo release "Crown of Sparrows" comes out on LP & CD in April 2016 on Grand Jury Records.
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