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Genie

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this song is dedicated to genie chance, the brave and calming voice over anchorage's KENI radiowaves throughout the great alaskan earthquake of 1964. may she rest in peace.

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your job out in the city
isn't cutting it for me
you've got three kids and a wife home hungry

you said, let's move to alaska
i was the first to ask ya
what do you really mean

so i started working
got a job down at the station
reporting on all sorts of things

like they built us a new mall
i noticed your problem with alcohol
but overall, we were alright

then the earth started a-quaken;
all the lives that had been taken
mr. jennings would like to know if his kids are alright
i said over the radio

see, i was afraid of loosing purpose
i was afraid of losing you
but i went out and found some work yes,
i covered the blue on my eyes from you

i think you got jealous
of my new found happiness
i was all over the news

the blond girl from texas
living up in anchorage
found a purpose other than you

then the earth started a-quaken
all the lives that had been taken
can we get a few folks to clean up the debris
in front of jc pennies

see, i was afraid of loosing purpose
i was afraid of losing you
but i went out and found some work yes,
i covered the blue on my eyes from you

and i never did share my deepest truth
that my body was aching too
anchorage was quaking, quaking, quaking
my body was quaking too

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released May 19, 2021
Radio clips: Genie Chance papers, Archives and Special Collections, Consortium Library, University of Alaska Anchorage

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Kiernan is the Minneapolis-based musical project of Laura Kiernan, who is very excited to be in a band. Their music can be described as "sounds for when you're feeding the pigeons." In other words: soft, silly, spacious and best done with friends. She and the band hope it nourishes your ears like a nice hunk of bread. ... more

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