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Fable

by Sam Moss

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1.
Postman 03:20
Postman in the grey and blue Can I sleep among the bags while you drive? I'll take the wheel after a time Got a jaw full of foolish words How many miles Will we get there by the morning? Stop just short of the ocean I'll find my way to town And I'd spend my last dollar on a walking cane Shining silver handle, initials engraved And a hard wandering stick leading down to the earth But is it worth wearing my soles to the dirt? There are a few things I found Do you mind if I piece them together? I've got all the fixings for a letter But none of the letters for lines Some of these people back here They've got minds worth thieving Some are hoping and reeling Others are sky high I'm just hoping to string them in line One by one make the words into mine I think it's there, just not crystalized Like you'd see the stars, if not for the sun in your eyes
2.
Fable 02:55
Make for me a roadmap Show the way you came What did you wear your teeth on? How did you get your name? Every friend has a fable Standing at its side An ever-mythic twin With us to live and to die Silvery when you're quiet Mirror on your skin like a veil Yet I see you traveling Pulsing, skinny trails Every friend has their antlers Branching temples to the moon Bones worn on the outside Naked and true
3.
Fingerprints 02:02
I want to see the fingerprints Of my friends and enemies Wash them into solid black And carry them with me Fly on the dusty earth Water when it rains Ask me any question I threw away my shame The ends are all glazed over It's just one single strand Wrap me in your lifeline Pull tighter if you can
4.
All the cloud receptors Bellies satisfied Open and collide Rivers out of rain And I don't expect communion Or a gaze to be returned With eyes that flutter quickly Memory can't get burned Where the trees shoot up like daggers Where there are no trees at all Where stars are lost in sprawl Or freckled everywhere They hypnotize slowly Soaking up the doubt Let it trickle out Upward to the sky We greet each other tongue tied Not cheapened by our words Your eyes they cut me open And fill my veins with earth Topography defined On the glowing hunter's moon
5.
Beast 02:52
Every beast I chased led me down a path Lined with waste from a quiet past And all the faces there though they are few Have born new lines, they are older too And every word I wrote stumbled down To the paper thin and barely bound Road I lit to see the eyes Of my long lost friends, the ones I recognize And where are they? Spread far around Not like my dreams, so closely bound Yet here we are in the mountain's eye Just a couple of kids holding tight
6.
Vertebrae 03:45
Did you watch my vertebrae Slendering out Or did you watch your own? Stretching skin over the bone I've grown Learning to be proud Slip under the tongue A watchmaking kit Nothing you can do with it I tried to birth a new time Forged from a younger spine of mine One less unsatisfied You know the game Filled with a childish pride Knowing the world from all sides Handsome and earnest and wise You know the game
7.
When I woke from the picture it was nearly real And I remembered each movement from the spinning reel And how just like a wheel, it didn't consider the way I did feel But it was not everlasting Brush the fog from my eyes to reveal something clean Looking through an open window to the nearly unseen But how the lightness of the morning turns to the eve And stars go funneling from you And I listen to you whisper when you come down Closing slowly, decrescendo, till not a sound Why does it trick me every time? You keep me walking the line
8.
Lighting 03:58
If my hammer's back at home And I've run out of twine Twist the branches into corners Lay the planks out for my spine Whittled down the day To a narrow straight line Pulling at splinters One by one The amber of the twilight Is only in the sky We sleep unwhiskeyed And plain Where dreams are all mundane No symbols to unfurl I won't wake up with a name Just a lighting of the world Alabaster moon A sliver in the air Sinks below a sturdy line Till barely there Where dreams are unretained No there's nothing to recall I won't wake up with a name Or nothing else at all

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released May 6, 2016

Sam Moss- vocals, acoustic guitar
with
Michael Roberts- electric guitar
Jeff Murphy- bass
Jesse Fox- drums

Recorded at Guilford Sound by Dave Snyder and Matt Hall
Mixed by Dave Snyder
Mastered by Carl Saff

Drawings by Will Moss
Text by Sam Moss
Layout and design by Don Moss

All songs written by Sam Moss
©2016 Sleep Walk Songs (ASCAP)
℗&©2016 Sam Moss
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