Culture is closing in, lives in our heads
Feeding us Babylon keeps us fed
Everything’s dust in the moonlight & scattered breadcrumbs
Ashes to ashes to raindrops to romance we become one again
Mother and father now the bridge for my soul
Came down from outer space, in pieces I become whole
Brothers & sisters in spirals, in spirals of magic
Time is the silence of secrets it keeps us spiraling & frantic
But I’ve seen the final figure, the formless dragon
With faces that once seemed familiar,
Scattered they become one again.
Straining to see past the wasteland to rainbows & godhead
Trying to breathe in a vacuum what will wake us up again?
Straining to listen to secrets, a silence pregnant
Mother & father conceive me, bound in dependence we become one again.
On “Meet Me By the River,” Dawn Landes’s self-described “Nashville record,” buoyant country melodies settle deep into lush instrumentation. Bandcamp New & Notable May 7, 2018