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Rebecca Kelley - Rhyme for Another Day

from Talents for Grieving by Strummingbird Vegabond

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I started writing this song right before Covid and finished it a few weeks after quarantine had started. This song put me in a different place, and that is still its whole purpose.

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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
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from Talents for Grieving, track released May 20, 2021
Infinite thanks to Matt Olson of Attack and Release Sound for your endless attention to detail and for creating such amazing recordings for our first EP!

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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! ... more

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