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Water On All Sides

from Affirmations and Storms Returning by Eric George

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lyrics

Storms Returning
or Season of Song


I


I can't be in some stained glass mansion
Getting sideways glances
From the omniscient cowhand

I can't be sailing
Through the dim tunnels of the heart
Finding pain behind picture frames

I can't be bathing
In hardening sorrow carving letters
Onto the trees of my time

I can only dissolve
And hide in the creases around my eyes
Where you'll find me

To say that when I smile
It reminds you.

Then the creases unfold
And I hit the ground
To grow like a seed

In spring


II


No one seems to be stopping,
So why should I?

We're all chasing our muses,
Aren't we?

I've turned a baseball diamond
Into a garden,
Haven't I?

The dirt under your nails
Are my stone fingertips

And the flowers you grow
Are my melodies scented
With sweet blue certainty

The sisters are digging the cistern
To collect the rain,

The family of strange birds
Heard something to make them sing,

And I've been carving my woods
Out of soft wood

Trying with tired eyes
Admittedly blithe in my
Harrowed humility

To find just what it means
To embrace the seemingly
Endless ocean,

While on the shore someone sits
Sewing nets with bone needles
Gutting fish and grinding stone wheels.

You, wishing all the while
For the sweetest deal in which you sail
Over mountains, through deserts,

Taking your time


III



While the summer's numbered days
Shade out the flowers of my uncertainty,

The heat stands still,
The dogs pant in the dry dirt,
And the rattling questions of the cicadas
Are posed in swelling choruses

I respond one by one
As though each wing were
Teaching its last lesson,

Masters of their sound
Found deep in the season
Of their song

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from Affirmations and Storms Returning, released May 5, 2018

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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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