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Lost Horse vol. 2

by Golconda

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1.
Caroline 03:57
I'm at the park with Caroline But the wind won't blow and the sun won't shine All I need is some sort of signal Thought when Caroline was on the swing The grass would whistle or the dust would sing But no one says nothing except the two of us. No one else is here. I'm on a walk with Caroline But the stars above us won't align It's the same mess up there that it always is When Caroline looks up at me The air and soil don't agree. I thought this was supposed to be simple. I guess that was a lot to ask of a girl. I guess that was a bit much to expect. Waiting for her in the cold at three Know just how I want this night to be She should've been here half an hour ago Driving home with Revolver playing I curse my luck and recall her saying If there's one word to describe me, it's "practical." I was on the road with Caroline Watching carefully for a sign But somehow we still ended up in New Hampshire By the roadside late that night Didn't turn out like I thought it might. I wanted a little of something magical. I guess that was a lot to ask of a girl. I guess that was a bit much to expect.
2.
On the Limb 03:30
Skip fourteen and a dozen cry Until you've been there you never think to come by The backyard doesn't fit a lot But it'll serve when things inside start to get hot So have a seat and have a beer Don't get up until things start to get clear 'Til all of my apologies Take on a lilt of Aristophanes When you get out to the springs you'll see all the things you missed You might want to get a running start Up on the limb of the cedars we kissed So spin the globe, tear up the joint The edge of the record never sees the point It's not the grass, it's not the tides Things are moving faster on the inside So take it back to your hometown Where people are playing guitar on the ground And swim outside to make them see The sort of type of person that you can be When you get out to the springs you'll see all the things you missed You might want to get a running start Up on the limb of the cedars we kissed The greatest sidewalks dress in rags You know them by the colors of their flags But the sleepy blocks are quite the best They've earned the opportunity to have a rest Don't hesitate on the piano keys They aren't gonna answer when you ask them please This place just might evaporate So do your part and try not to concentrate When you get out to the springs you'll see all the things you missed You might want to get a running start Up on the limb of the cedars
3.
Glacier 02:29
So the glacier air's been roaming through your neighborhood So the singing sands are cutting through your backyard fence I say you should've been ready Why weren't you prepared? So the visitors from the south are sleeping on your porch So the fog is falling on the rich and on the poor So the seashells are whining on the beach outside your door And the authorities aren't quite sure which document to make you sign That's when you give them a stamp and say I'll keep what's truly mine Back in the days of plenty there were loaves and there were fish The sun was a jar of honey and the mountains wise old friends But the canyon winds were restless and you wanted to make amends So you took to eating sharks and fixing ancient stoves You debated with professors on the nature of what's real While all the while the glacier was bearing down on the lilies of the field And making them remember And making the kittiwakes forget And distracting all the rest of us with pleasant weather
4.
Whispers 03:57
Whispers hang from the branches Echoes come up from the mines to the sky This whole land is breathing This whole land it aches But we all see in it what we want to We all hear what we want As for me, I want to stretch out on the washboard of the morning I want to stay out all night I want to see the stars reflected in your stepladder eyes I want to break into the garden and run 'til it gets too cold to run But I guess I'm seeing what I want to I guess I want what I hear Just like Noah on the 27th day Just like Magellan, we all make our way Most of us to an island like a sepulcher in the dawn Some to a field of olive trees that folds into itself and is gone Me I think to a dusty road always coming to another hill One farmhouse hazy in the distance And I'm hoping that it will come to me like a flower Come to me like a bird Rest on my mind like a sermon and I won't forget a word But I know I'm just seeing what I want to And we all want what we hear
5.
Pedernales 03:44
It's gray out there except the glass where the colored paintings lie Above the roar you hear the brass rise swirling to the sky Until one dead tree unfurls the tide You can tell me how things look on the other side of the road But my heart's with the waterfall's sweet January pools My headlights point to the country where the sagebrush wrote the rules In this dark room where five and nine collide I remember how things look on the other side of the road And my heart's with the waterfall's sweet January pools My headlights point to the country where the sagebrush wrote the rules Until once more the freeway dusk is wide You can say that things are fine on the other side of the road

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music & lyrics by Luke Gullickson
Oct - Nov 2009, Joshua Tree, CA
© 2009 by Two Labyrinths Music (ASCAP), all rights reserved

recorded Dec 2011 in Chicago

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released December 31, 2011

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Peripatetic avant-troubadour songs for the discerning vagabond

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