It was like you were coming to wake us back up
from Trash Mountain by Lily Seabird
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lyrics
It was like you were coming to wake us back up
you were riding your bike all the silvery stuff
was floating around your beautiful head
it was like we’d forgotten that you had been dead
The two of us stood there stuck in our tracks
you were riding your bike up the hill out back,
but the closer you got the further you were
and somebody rode by and we said that isn’t her
And the stranger rode by us delicately slow,
and she held my glance, but how could she have known
that in her we saw our friend who had gone,
that in her we saw our friend who had gone
And it was like
you were here
you were here
you were here
Well it was like you were coming to wake us back up
you were riding your bike all the silvery stuff
was floating around your beautiful head
it was like we’d forgotten that you had been dead
The two of us stood there stuck in our tracks
you were riding your bike up the hill out back,
but the closer you got the further you were
and somebody rode by and we said that isn’t her
And the stranger rode by us delicately slow,
and she held my glance, but how could she have known
that in her we saw our friend who had gone,
that in her we saw our friend who had gone
And it was like
you were here
you were here
you were here
Well it was like you were coming to wake us back up
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from Trash Mountain,
released April 4, 2025
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Lily Seabird Burlington, Vermont
Since 2023, Vermont songwriter Lily Seabird’s life has been in perpetual motion, spending nearly half of that time on the road performing her own music and as a touring bassist. While she thrives in transit, back home she is anchored by “Trash Mountain,” a pink house surrounded by other artists and creatives situated on a decommissioned landfill site at the back of Burlington’s Old North End. ... more
shows
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May 3Winooski, VT
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May 16Washington, DC
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Jun 6New York (NYC), NY
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Jun 7Cambridge, MA
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Jun 10Columbus, OH
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Jun 26Madison, WI
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Jul 1Denver, CO
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Jul 8San Francisco, CA
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Jul 11Los Angeles (LA), CA
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Jul 12Pioneertown, CA
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Jul 13San Diego, CA
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Aug 27London, UK
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Aug 31Nottingham, UK
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Sep 1Manchester, UK
discography
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Oct 2021
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