Lyrics
Oh, Portland, you were a good disease
A lovely rot in the roots of me
I'm cutting back all the unpruned branches
Giving the ghosts all their second chances
[Verse 1]
The chipped ceramic of my grandmother's cup
Held the heat of the 4:05 AM bus hum
I traced the patina on the Burnside Bridge steel
Trying to catalog something I could feel
[Chorus]
Oh, Portland, you were a good disease
A lovely rot in the roots of me
I'm cutting back all the unpruned branches
Giving the ghosts all their second chances
[Verse 2]
At the bookstore you said, "You're too good at being small."
And I swear I felt the Douglas firs start to fall
Packed the folk songbook in a box from Fred Meyer's
Guess I'm the curator of my own small fires
[Chorus]
Oh, Portland, you were a good disease
A lovely rot in the roots of me
I'm cutting back all the unpruned branches
Giving the ghosts all their second chances
[Bridge]
And the sound of the MAX bell is a kintsugi hum
Gluing the pieces of where I've become
[Outro]
A good disease...
About Karen Wren
Karen Wren was raised in the quiet, rain-soaked suburbs of Portland, Oregon. After leaving the San Francisco Conservatory of Music in her third year, feeling disconnected from its rigid classicism, she returned home with a mountain of student debt and her grandmother's Japanese folk songbook. She writes her lush, melancholic piano ballads in the pre-dawn quiet of her small apartment before her…
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