These Onions

from The Milk by Ortega Fuerte

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I grow these onions/ I grow them myself
They're dried, chipped and bottled and they're put on a shelf
I trade these onions for a bottle of wine.
I trade these onions for a piece of your time.
I trade these onions with a good friend of mine.

I get soil in my fingernails early in the morning.
Sunny day, rainy day, early in the morning.
Water from the well drawn up early in the morning.
Fire burning, kettle brewing, early in the morning.

I make mistakes/ Oh no I do it alright.
Keep this dichotomy strung the way that I like.
I spill my coffee on the seat of my car.
Complain about it, yeah I act like a star
Hitch my troubles to the trailer that I drag to the bar.

I get cigarette fingertips later in the evening
Communicating complicated later in the evening
A thing on my body blinks twice later in the evening
The message storing system linking late into the evening,
I loot.

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from The Milk, released February 18, 2006
Words and Music by Hugo Grayling

Chris Rohlf: backing vocal, percussion, guitar
Hugo Grayling: nylon guitar, bass, vocal, percussion

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Ortega Fuerte Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Ortega Fuerte are a group of songwriters and multi-instrumentalists founded in 2003 by core member Hugo Grayling and often including the contributions of Air Anchor's Chris Rohlf.

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