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lyrics

Most minutes I’m sleeping,
Most hours I’m dreaming.
My hands are tired of keeping the time.
The reel spins happy and sad things,
train travels, plane crashes.
But they’re the same, they both make me cry.

Oh take me away from.
the circle conundrum.
I need to follow the breadcrumbs
till they come to a dead end.
Every town has a jailhouse,
and a cathedral for the dropouts
I could drive east or walk south.
but I’ve got both those in my head.

Most years pass in seconds,
like paint peeling from wreckage.
sorrowful reflections,
that seem from another life.
Something grand I remember,
telling myself to remember.
but it’s forgotten in the embers,
stirred every sleepless night.

But I’m more confused, with every upturned tile.
and I never felt more lost, then when you told me I’d arrived.
is there escape from the escapement, we all rotate inside?
I can’t run forever, but I may run til I die.
I’m not exactly searching, but I’m scared of what I’ll find.

But no I’ve got to go somewhere..
even if everywhere’s the same.
Just a token piece, going round round
on the same fatalist board game.
I’ll be leaving anyway
to see the mountain as the mountain again,
even if just by change of name.
Close my roulette eyes again... and hope I get the train.

I’m the best at excuses.
I’m always tightening my nooses.
then praying fate will come shooting
through the rope before it jerks.
Looking for that gold gateway
to take me back to where I’ve always stayed.
to wander ’til I forget my name
then I'll know that I’ve arrived.
somewhere.

Upstairs, then downstairs,
when I’m either, I’m nowhere
cause I can’t stand not knowing
what’s happening where I left.
End this song in ellipsis.
if there’s a plot, it’s just thickening.
My mind’s a seconds hand ticking,
circling round till it strikes death.
it’s trying so hard to forget.
something I can’t quite comprehend
and I threw everything away
you’re the only thing I kept

credits

from Between Suns, released April 1, 2019
Joel Martin: vocals, guitars, bass guitar, piano, banjo, dulcimer
David Fuller: drums, guitars, vocals

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