Jenny Hval – Six Red Cannas lyrics

[Intro: Vivian Wang and Félicia Atkinson]
Red cannas in the sky
Red cannas in the sky

[Verse 1: Jenny Hval and Vivian Wang]
I didn't think about it at the time
I didn't think about it at the time
What in the desert
I think I was trying to enlightenign Georgia O'Keeffe
Georgia, Georgia, Georgia, Georgia, Georgia

[Verse 2: Jenny Hval]
Like Joni Mitchell writes to Amelia Earheart
When she is driving, driving, driving in the desert
As if a song can communicate
Would the spirits all wake up the dead?

[Chorus 1: Jenny Hval and Félicia Atkinson]
Humming, isn't that what it's for?
1927
Humming, isn't that what it's for?
1920, 1946
Humming, isn't that what it's for?
1978, 1980
1986, 1999
Awaken the dead

[Verse 3: Jenny Hval]
I was but wasn't quite writing
I spotted six red cannas
As I was driving towards Ghost Ranch
In the north of New Mexico
New, New, New, New, New, New, New, mexico
New, New, New, New, New, New, New, mexico

[Verse 4: Jenny Hval and Félicia Atkinson]
I've never seen them
Red cannas in the sky
Red giants in the sky
'Cause they were tearing up there headfirst

[?] as it turned
1949
To [?] all kinds of spirits, the spirits
And you know they want to be, you know she's here before
1947, 1920

[Chorus 2: Jenny Hval and Félicia Atkinson]
We used to be all underwater
1820, 1563
We used to be all underwater

[?]
We used to be all underwater

[?]
We used to be all underwater
The ocean
We used to be all underwater
The ocean
We used to be all underwater