Flawless.
Written for one of our VOM songwriting challenges… I think this was “a different success than you were planning” Re: the weird illustrations. I’m enjoying adding Stable Diffusion graphics for
A Fine Summer Day.
A fine summer dayFor picking fruit and consequenceA fine summer daySun shining down on swollen lipsA fine secret wayA muddy trip down to the riverbankA quiet angry dayDirt on my
New American
This year has been the exerciseIn just how much we can sympathizeWith the fallacy of compromiseAnd knowing when to duck Who’s in who’s outYou gotta learn when to bail outThis
Rain.
It’s 7:00 Sunday morningand we’re searching for rainash and dust on our tonguesheaven-turned we are searching for rain tossed and turned we have burnedthe sight of brown dirt in to
Selkie.
I played six strings to the harbourin six foot waves the music creptand she stared at nothing from another six strings but there’s a tower here that I’ll cut downI’ll
Playground.
The mud stains denimand we slipped upon the slidesteel seemed so innocent those days a stain now marks where the swings used to standwhere a man once stood there stands
The Feast of Thick and Thin
So I’ve got these things that eat me up insideI’ve got these things that chewI lied when I said that all of this helpsthe words just concrete all the lies
Coal Boulder.
Coal Boulderred hot & blackburning none too cleanly Coal Boulderroll on backcrushed a new Life todayand no he won’t look back I wasstanding simpleI wasstanding proudI was hand in handI
Twitch
finding clear water isn’t too easyin city streets determined to be harshfinger tips reach out in half-desirethey retract in disappointment with guitar strings brokenand skins worn down to the boneI
TORCH
stick to your skinand hold on tightand tell me we’ll make it homealright tonightthat firelight it could’ve been ussome nights I wish it were stick to your teethyour guns and