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In the mountains of southwestern Mexico, there's a small village that's famous for two things: faith healers that people come from all over the country to see, and the best mescal in the world. This song is about getting a little too much of both.

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i've taken a lover into my bed
whispers of Spanish float 'round her head
and sometimes her skin smells like chilis and sunlight
and sometimes she wakes
in the middle of the night
she gets long distance calls from Barranca del Cobre
something about her always looks hungry
and i want her so much i'll follow wherever she goes
but i don't see the thorns here for the rose

and high up/in Mexico
Curanderas bought her soul
now i see shadows/at high noon
and my heart changes/with the moon

she went to say Hail Marys down at the mission
says she's on the hook for the sin of sedition
what union she's running from just her confessor can tell
but today i have not heard them sound the bell

and high up/in Mexico
Curanderas bought her soul
now i see shadows/at high noon
and my heart changes/with the moon

oh, mother of pearl/birds of paradise
Sierra Madre earth/Cuernavaca night
and i feel a burning through her skin
branded by her tears
like an animal she cries out
but i see nothing
nothing in her mirrors

i try to tell her the things i can't show her
she drops the needle, the music takes over
we dance until the blood flows and the saints intervene
and she prays for just one night without any dreams

and high up/in Mexico
Curanderas bought her soul
now i see shadows/at high noon
and my heart changes/with the moon

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from Interstate Medicine, released January 1, 2002

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Radio Nowhere is a singer/songwriter-led band from Oakland, California, in the United States. A friend told me that we sound like the missing link between Lyle Lovett and Led Zeppelin, and that sums it up pretty well. ... more

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