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Everything Must Go

by Lynne Piper

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THIS RELEASE IS A FUNDRAISER TO HELP PROTECT OUR FRAGILE BURNED FORESTS!

All proceeds will go to Cascadia Wildlands, a grassroots conservation organization doing this important work in our region.

www.cascwild.org

Donate directly to Cascadia Wildlands here:
tinyurl.com/protect-post-fire-landscapes


This song is about seeing our burned forests logged after the Labor day fires of 2020 in Oregon. After losing our cabin to the Beachie Creek fire we saw signs and hope of regrowth. Now we see rampant logging, beloved places treated as though the only thing to do is take everything, and start over. As though the best thing for the land is sell it for parts.

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Burned down,
Down to the ground
That sound
They're tearing them down
Scorched soil,
sticks and bits, pieces of death
What's left?
What will be next?

A new cycle turns,
down we will follow
right back towards...
carry us through it

Cuts deep,
keeping mills running at the cost of parents sleep
such grief
Not from fire in the forest but from selling off the trees
this moment, a chance to step back
consider, maybe find a new path

A new cycle turns
down we will follow
Right back towards
Carry us through it

Go with that river flowing
Guiding us towards a future path
Watch as the seasons exploding with green
Flowers blooming as though it will always last

Precious time...
A race to cash in,
bounties placed on ashen
trees, seen not as part of a whole
but pieces and marketable
Only 8 months, or a year
until the value starts to disappear
before all the FEMA money is gone
that's what this is hinging on.
But a burned forest is more than dead trees
more than hazards to humans
more than messes to clean
it's renewal,
it's not easy to understand
but we can learn, and make a better plan

Go with that river flowing
Guiding us towards a future path
Watch as the seasons exploding with green
Flowers blooming as though it will always last

Do we have all the time
or do we have a short while left
to deal with what we want to risk
Follow all that growth
I wonder what the future brings
We cannot control everything

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released May 7, 2021
Mixed & Mastered by Denver Bon at small m mastering

Cover photo by Ralph Bloemers

All samples(chainsaw, tree fall, river, fire) taken in Elkhorn, Oregon in February 2021

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Lynne Piper Portland, Oregon

Sweetie Lynne is songwriter and multi-instrumentalist living in Portland, Oregon.

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