geronimo

from gradually and then suddenly (2014) by all my nights are dreams

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you've got 10000 doors, and 80 years or so
sun beat the heavens bloody, then restored
by a veil of darkness and what dreams you may know
something like an omen, a black cat or a crow

i adopted the language of my family
before i could define the words i'd hear father speak
like the grey hare tied up to a bruised birch tree
the ax fell swifter then the rabbits' scream

diamonds wrapped around my mothers arm
glistened in the sun, like a second husband
we were blind to these occurrences we were yet young
the truth is in the telling, the shot is in the gun .

..and so it goes, look out below
it goes, Geronimo...
so it goes, before we notice so it goes...
la, di, da, doe...

harder then it has to be, that's my girl Emily
we dressed up as villains every halloween
drank stolen liquor in the town cemetery
and sang off key love songs with no melody

we were learning to love and we were driving too fast
greeting each new morning as if it were our last
we'd turn down gravel roads with nowhere to go
winter then springtime then summer, you know

roll down the windows turn off the air
i've been all around the world just to find you here
we're made of the same stuff, dirt beneath our nails
turn with a crooked smile, the way a dog turns to it's tail

...and so it goes, look out below
it goes, Geronimo...
so it goes, before we notice, so it goes...
la, di, da, doe...

you were engaged by 17 to my best friends' brother and sisters' ex boyfriend
i left the small town because i had dreams of a city, but no city would ever accept me
mother remarried a 3rd then a 4th time
i lost track of so many folks down the line
but i remember December and your broken leg
and the crutches you threw down as you yelled at me

in the fog of morning, in a light rain
you breathe on the window and scrawl out a name
sing to the furniture and dishes in the sink
dance by yourself and allow a small dream

...and so it goes, look out below
it goes, Geronimo...
so it goes, before we notice, so it goes...
la, di, da, doe...

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from gradually and then suddenly (2014), released July 25, 2015
Landon Gow

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