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I wrote this when the cliche's were still new and dirt was rocks. Keith Richards was still pretty old though.
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Verse One
I’m burning out, I’m feeling down
I can’t explain when You’re not around
Every breath is a paper cut
I sleep in wreckage just to feel enough
These walls echo with Your name
Like it's etched into the grain
I built home in the…
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When the sun sets over high mountains it doesn’t get dark
When the valley cools in in the evening the crinoline bark
Strike a match on the stone hearth flickering light for the fire
I watch the blue ridge violet hue ridge fade in the night…
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A footnote
A highlight
Soft words from the podium
Modest compression
A Turkish delight
And a Bic from the gas station
Cold calls
Non-binary
Waitlist university
Gen-Z in a Big Dog t-shirt
No drugs, no society
No sex, no anything
Just…
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Horizons,
beyond the edges
between what we can see
and
not see,
what we know and don't
yet
know.
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Seventh Heaven baseball cards
No slip-n-slides once it gets dark
The moneys in the coffee can
Out there you’ll find the promised land I know it
I rolled the pennies, swept the floor
Put folded shirts in dresser drawers
Lit the candle…
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Verse One
Ash from the fireplace,
Driftin' like ghosts in the air
Smoke on the ceiling,
Still clings to the cold in my hair
Flickers of yesterday
Burn in the cracks of the floor
You left without warning,
But your shadow's still at…
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Guitar improvisation based on the aria "Contessa Perdono" from Mozart's the Marriage of Figaro.
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There’s this tiny monastery round the corner from my house
I see the monks out walking, pulling weeds, and carting out the trash
I see them at the Exxon buying cokes and magazines
Their orange robes flow in the breeze as people fill their cars…
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It's a simple knot
That keeps me from the lake
It's a simple knot
That keeps me
What's known between
A rider and bridle
What's known between
Rider
O to be
The light on the land
O to be
The light
It was dark last night
When…
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