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#20 of 20.

someone wrote a few days ago to remind me that i’d not posted the lyrics for the final song from volume 2: run with the silent wildfires.  to complete a 20-part series that began a year and a half ago.  for an album that came out in early 2023.
it seems an apt one to break a long silence with.  and to start anew from.
on that note: i’m writing album #6, and hope to release a song or two from it before the end of the year.  it will be relatively compact – nine songs, maximum.
love,
eric.

storms while we’ve slept

drink from the river
let the river take something
from me
somehow as sure 
that it can swallow me
that i am pure

blank stares on the subway
tired reflections
the illusion of speed
flow under ice
no one will follow me
end of the line

but i did it 
and i’d do it again
take my heart out to the hollow 
where the moon is 
a friend
just as tender
and as troubled
as the world it resists
as its fingers trace the ocean
and the ocean
submits

secret duets
storms while we’ve slept
lay down beside the river’s edge
woke as the dragon i had left 
for dead

drink from the river
let the river take something
from me
flow under ice
no one will follow me
end of the line

but i did it
and i’d do it 
again
in the distance there’s a hollow 
where the moon is
a friend
pouring silver
over lovers
silencing their regrets
there is music in the darkness
that the darkness 
protects

secret duets
storms while we’ve slept
lay down beside the river’s edge
woke as the dragon i had left 
for dead

(from “raised by swans is the name of a man, vol. 2: run with the silent wildfires”. available now. all lyrics and music written and performed by e. howden)