if I were

from cradle tape by Phone Voice

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Cradle Tape 3rd pressing - the Yellow Gold
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limited edition golden yellow tape, homedubbed and handstamped with printed j card and insert by budtapes in Portland, OR.

probably the final pressing - when these are gone they're gone

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Cradle Tape cassette, first pressing
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Silver sparkle design - Homedubbed, handstamped cassette with printed j card and insert

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Cradle Tape cassette, second pressing
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Homedubbed, handstamped frog green cassette from budtapes in PDX, Ore.

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lyrics

if I was a bird
maybe I could see you
wherever I fly to
wherever I’d go
if you were a tree
I’d make your roots in
next to the garden
where my love grows

but I’m just a girl
you couldn’t stand not to have
put your fingers in the jar
and then pulled 'em back
I live in a skin
you tried to drown in
only to find out
I gave you a home

I won’t help you erase me
I won’t help you at all
no stones at your window
won’t answer no calls
I won’t be the disaster
you blame for your flaws
and I’ll go on singing
long after you fall
do do do do do do
do do do do do

did you think of Control?
whenever you touched me
to live out your fantasy
of breakin' this bad

oh if I were a book
I’d bury your name in
the depths of my pages
so you never come back

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from cradle tape, released August 6, 2021

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Phone Voice Portland, Oregon

in a fire you find a friend to carry you to safety. you wake up and only the friend is a dream.

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