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Lightning Law

from Love Is Revolution by Scott Pinkmountain

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I dream of shuttered windows on a burning house
I dream I see you shadow in the flame
Filling up my mouth with ash/So I can’t call your name
I dream I close my eyes and turn away

I find no absolution from my own hand
I find no consolation in my own voice
Quiet peaceful days I’m slowly/drowning on dry land
I find no new direction [resolution?] in my own choice

Sometimes I hear the water/sometimes I hear the wind
Sometimes I watch the night’s slow song, and it carries me back again

Sometimes I hear the lightning/while it’s laying down the law
Sometimes I try to listen, and I don’t hear anything at all.

What’s it gonna take to pound this broken blade
What’s it gonna take to mend this steel
A thousand generations/Of my memory slowly fade
But what’s it gonna take to make me real

I teach myself to hunt, but I can never make the kill
I learn to feed myself and still I’m never full
I was born with beating wings/but I’m right here laying still
I’m an oxen to the plow but I refuse to pull

Sometimes I hear the whisper/sometimes I feel the press
Sometimes I pray for passage, sometimes I pray for rest

Sometimes I hear the lightning/while it’s laying down the law
Sometimes I try to listen, and I don’t hear anything at all.

When will meaning ring again from these blank arms
When’s this cold black water gonna leave my serpent heart
I can swing a hammer lord/and I can cause false harm
But when’s this ready body gonna play its part

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from Love Is Revolution, released December 3, 2019

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Scott Pinkmountain (aka Scott Rosenberg) is an American musician and a writer. Over the past 20 years, he has recorded and performed extensively in the U.S. and Europe with many excellent musicians including Anthony Braxton, Jacopo Andreini, Gino Robair, Sam Coomes, Arrington Di Dionyso, Phil Minton, Jaap Blonk, Pauline Oliveros, Tim Daisy, Nate Wooley, and others. ... more

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