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Talents for Grieving

by Strummingbird Vegabond

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Climbing up the north side of the mountain see everything just as far as the eye can see you know we made our way up without a trail ahead and now there's no way but up don't wanna go down see the rain in the city brought the sky down on our heads couldn't stay asleep, couldn't stay in bed I wish I would laugh out loud like you do in your sleep the most beautiful days end in darkest dreams look at the world upside down, heaven is earth and freedom is this scramble on hands and feet from the bottom we never thought to get this far needing seeing, being, doing more than done smothered in a modern reality of schedules and cars troubled with a life that's going perfectly fine in a city of everything my heart craves nothing nothing but the silence of the open endless sky Now the river below is a ribbon of life in the sun dive into space, fly down to its shore the only other way is feet on solid ground take a dog's eye view a new route is found We are creatures of ages past free to roam like the beasts at last up the mountain on all four limbs open to the breezes of passing whims No fences new frontiers we are pioneers break up the grids that bind the earth that tie us to our fears the world is not the city yet clocks do not keep time we reach the top at an unknown hour and the town below is the remains of a very different future
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When did your heart slip through the cracks must have fell out a while back did it bounce, did it shatter? Did you notice did it matter now you're freer conscious cleaner without motion your emotion Drowning drinking, too much thinking Can cloud the mind Don't walk away, run escape at all costs you think oblivion is freedom but its yourself you've lost if you notice you don't care your eyes are open but no one's in there too much thinking, drugs and drinking can cloud the mind So grab up your heart take it back you have always been right on track that's just a brittle crust there's part of you that doesn't rust but too much drinking drugs and thinking never cleared the mind Whichever way you run Escape's the highest cost you think oblivion is freedom but its yourself you've lost if you notice you don't care your eyes are open but your soul's not there too much thinking drugs and drinking never cleared the mind credits
3.
I want to write a song that doesn't rhyme that doesn't mean anything that doesn't keep time a song that sinks me like a stone in the deep blue sea want the waves of it washing over me I want to write a song that doesn't rhyme and maybe that song will never quite exist it'll float through the air like a blown kiss while the strings sing softly from my fingertips waves fill the void when they leave my lips I want to write a song that never quite exists nevertheless let it soothe some lost soul's loneliness oh if all of the things that I ever resisted weren't the very same things that have always persisted blissful song take me along as you drift away and then I'll fill that song full of emptiness take the hole inside and put it to music don't know I'm lost until in the song I'm found want to bathe myself in nothing but sound i want to write a song full of emptiness oh if all of the things that I ever resisted weren't the very same things that have always persisted blissful song take me along as you drift away Save the song that doesn't rhyme or keep time for another day for now I'll drown myself in sound before it drifts away let this song sift like sand from my hand blown away may it seep through my soul like the soil drenched by rain may it sift may it lift may it seep through the cracks may it fluff the dust and pluck me just one moment from my tracks when the thoughts that made my heart scream flow out in a sweet stream that's when I know the nightmare's just part of the complete dream I want to write a song that never quite exists take the whole soul inside and put it to music it'll float through the air like a blown kiss and just maybe it'll soothe some lost soul's loneliness credits
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My sweet baby I love you love you love you the whole night through the whole night through and all day too When we wake when morning breaks when we rise when we greet the day a whole new world awaits our gaze fill it up with curiosity's praise Chorus: Let the world fade let your body take all the time it needs to let sleep invade the only constant is that things will change we are moving sitting still our bodies rearrange In the deep of sleep what dreams may come you reach to grasp the moon the stars dust your thumb with your fingertip you put them out one by one just when you think the dark will last forever here comes the sun Chorus so rock baby rock rockabye when you wake from your sleep baby please don't cry for now let me tell you that the world is great filled more with love and hope than fear and hate for now let me tell you that the world's at peace now drift to sleep and may your dreams be sweet Chorus
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Lift me up to that place where are human rainbow race tends a garden of eden afloat in outer space and when I come back down touch these feet to solid ground my heart finds a place to rest tucked away in the forest Let me heal you show you a real you way upriver from the sea the earth around us lifts us grounds us strips us down to our humanity here variety's the only thing I see gone is what's right and what was left far is the world that I left here on a mountainside my spirit blends with all the rest did you find me here with mother nature's kiss Hail you from afar I know what you are lay my hand on your chest beats like all the rest come with me and exist outside the matrix wherever more to roam this sweet mountain home it takes the weight off me so what is sameness it is nameless I see it doesn't exist mother nature never made it so listen to the sound of the wind as is washes your skin the feelings akin to the breath of the sky its the cry its the sigh from a mother's chest at ease or unrest see my light in your night its the breath between black and white here the wilds are the wisest only human in the forest between earth and sky on a mountainside it takes the weight off me

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released May 21, 2021

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Strummingbird Vegabond Missoula, montana

We are a folk rock trio coming together around the original songs and set list of Rebecca Kelley. Becca sings and plays acoustic guitar, currently and hopefully long term with two musicians whose lifetimes spent honing their skills always humbles and amazes her:

Local female and fellow musician Britt Arnesen on bass and talented and fun Damien Margo on drums!
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