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Not About Nightingales

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lyrics

To embrace the star on which this body rests
Like a nightingale in its branched nest

I shiver as I hold the hope I might save
As though someone I love walked across my grave

And the home I've known grown apart from these bones
Will hold me to my choices like fossils in stone

How all these things I hold so dear
Become a practice of the moments here

Is the song of today
The story of old
The weeping of the weary
The sweat of the bold

I raise my right hand to the ocean to vow
As my left holds what I have now

I listen closely for the soft whispered answers
In rooms of poets and growers and dancers

How all these things I hold so dear
Become a practice of the moments here

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from Not About Nightingales, released August 23, 2017

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Eric George Burlington, Vermont

Eric George is a Vermont-based songwriter, sound engineer, and performer of original music and poetry. One of the most prolific folk musicians of the Northeast music scene, he is intent upon maintaining the integrity of American folk music while taking a contemporary approach to songwriting. ... more

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