Kate Vargas's video: Kate Vargas The Reckless Daughters - Second Skin NPR Tiny Desk Contest 2019

Kate Vargas & The Reckless Daughters w/ Granville Mullings Jr. for NPR's Tiny Desk Contest 2019. "Second Skin" is a witch story inspired by the Navajo tellings of skinwalkers and individuals' own encounters in New Mexico. The Reckless Daughters = Lena Kaminsky + Lizzy Vargas www.katevargas.com Lyrics: Go back paddlewhack give the boy a throne May he wear my sin til the hunters go Gonna pull me back together baby limb by limb Grimace tight as a second skin Ricky’s on the mesa staring at the cross Done it every single day since the boy went lost Wringing them hands like a fire gonna come Come for the keeper of his only son, come for the keeper of his son Fury from the big black belly of the night Cutting through the quiet like a spider bite Kicking up the feathers with a dusty growl Out for the woman with the face of an owl, the woman with the face of an owl Go back paddlewhack give the boy a throne May he wear my sin til the hunters go Gonna pull me back together baby limb by limb Grimace tight as a second skin Shiver up the embers, spittin at the sky Bullet from his pocket and the moon does rise Picking at the etchings, tucking at the chain Swift, like a rose through a windowpane, a rose through a window pane Go back, go back, go back, ooooo Are you looking for me? Witches? There’s no such thing. The only difference between me and all of them is the sheath I choose to wrap my wild in Ricky said the boy had a darkness in his eyes Troubled at the mouth and foaming at the mind Left him to the others in a fit of the will Fed him to the birds and he’s with them still, oh he’s with them still Go back paddlewhack give the boy a throne May he wear my sin til the hunters go Gonna pull me back together baby limb by limb Grimace tight as a second skin