1. |
You're Alright...
04:46
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You’re alright,
ashes still subsiding,
oh there’s fresh air all around.
Aground.
Nary a movement.
And proud of things you did before, things you do no more.
And I’ll only lay here awhile,
while I try to sink into the ground like the water.
Moss that ever slowly swallows
fallen trees and hollow houses.
Dampness come to one with marrow,
tomorrow’s fallow’s flower rouses.
Oh, I’m waking.
Heavy branches fallen from me.
Oh, they saw me.
I wasn’t hiding.
Take your time.
All the dawn that comes to rest on the sill beside my bed!
All is fine, all is fine, all is.
(Water’s fine.)
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2. |
One Foot at Once...
03:09
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One foot at once,
whim will have me go down to the creek on stepping stones.
The drops of rain limb will hold to grow
'til each in turn is letting go
To wash the fossil clean.
It doesn't mean no thing.
It's just some thing I've seen.
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3. |
The Hour...
03:41
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The hour is too late.
The ocean swung through - the portent: don't wait.
And hearing we heed
headlong down to the beach.
The power is too great.
The notion clung to the torrent don't take.
And feeling we flee,
bed down, under the beech.
And silty sifting through the fog predawn we plead
to be imbued - ooooo
to one
with all
decay -
until to fertility we fell.
Flowers after rain, flowers after rain.
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4. |
All We Want...
03:41
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All we want we once contained.
Women I've loved, breath, feminine me gave.
Boys without beauty seem
hungry always, hungry always.
Learn to let lust away,
weight from my limbs,
weight from my gaze as I am passing through
and passed into by everything always.
Fall down,
fall down,
fall down,
look around you.
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5. |
I tried...
02:28
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I tried
to do some-
thing today
to make me
feel
myself.
Cut off
from my
power
I try
to pass
the hour.
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6. |
I Ache...
05:45
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I ache when it rains, oh it all became of wanting to feel closer to the dark and night and gales on the sea.
I make me a seine, draw me through the churning of things unnamed hidden under bark and bite and whales on the lee.
And phytophotodermatitic kisses wrote the whole of the langues,
mumbling all our wordless wonder we sang songs about the dark and night and gales on the sea.
Oh we are, oughta be, closer to the stand of quivering trees bending to the dark and night and hail through the leaves.
But we bark and we freeze only for the fear of shivery knees, fumbling for the spark or light or nails for the feet.
And hide the quote those lunatic misses wrote. All their stark poesy stumbling ‘round the realm of shivery knees raving ‘bout the dark and night and hail through the leaves.
There, there, I read.
I'll cast me in.
Overhung bough
where dark things live.
I felt my way down to the pond.
Sometimes you just happen upon.
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7. |
Wake Up...
02:35
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Wake up.
Wake up darling
quickly
before they stir you all up.
They stir you
all up.
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8. |
You Taught...
02:52
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You taught
me to
tip-toe.
No one hears me
step into the morning sun,
oh, and so on.
And so on our soft glow,
quiet walkers.
Step into the morning sun,
oh,
and so on.
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9. |
Early In...
02:50
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Early in the verbal hours I
twine the time to day.
Thoroughly as the tulip flowers,
laying the line too late.
Always too late.
Fledgling words unwound all grow in this body
long after the sowers breaking ground are gone.
Cursive me in brown
sunk down in Ohio-u-alluvial-ooo.
Gnawing down to bone bedrock like a taproot
flowing up with sap long after winds have changed.
I come to hope like rope held taut to the bloom
pulled forth to the source by aways.
By sowers sewing.
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10. |
So It Was...
03:37
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So it was.
I recall now.
I was never
given to
calm down.
Calm down now.
Calm down ~
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So It Was Louisville, Kentucky
Grown out of Lobb’s solo songwriting project, So It Was has become an agile indie-rock outfit, charming the Louisville scene and rippling out on tour and the interwebs.
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