Somwhow, The Rivers Rising

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It’s lonely and it’s cold
But beautiful and black
And all around the smell
Of old trees and coming rain

Sometimes the best things
Are best left unsaid
Like how love’s an unfit friend
Like how your chest builds your head

And maybe before you take yourself away
You bring to the edge the only place you hear the dead

Somehow the river’s rising
The summers deep
There hasn’t been rain for weeks
We move through sunshine, talk,
Getting into sold out shows

This is the last summer we’ll have, before living turns to working

Change is short before the new arrives
And the Midwest spreads out like a spill on a rag
Soon, nothing but bleach and blue dye fill my mouth

And I dream of thicker plants
And finger love
And sleeping under snow and singing stars

Maybe beyond the water crest
Below torched water I would love
Squid-like
With just enough arms to encircle you

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from Mean Sea Level, released August 25, 2008

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