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Trails

by Jarrett Osborn

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1.
The yards of astroturf are strung together like a chain link fence A hanging ampersand above their heads a sign of ignorance Pharaoh of the scarecrows Hero of the hedgerows We’ll crown you king of thorns Hail the workaday, he’s hanging by the ladder’s bottom rung Asleep and biding time in the recliner in delirium King of the ampersand, we’ll crown you the king You’ll succumb to it You’ll carry on until your head falls off
2.
I’m searching all the trails and covering all of my tracks I drew a map of Hawaii on your back How dare you raise your voice at me A time and place for everything A show of manners in this scene A time and place You might just stare me blind, I’m waiting for your eye to blink I’ll show you all my scars, it might just give you pause to think When you can’t move on, I’ll carry you to the beyond
3.
Gemini 03:48
Gemini, I can see you through all the skies Scraping the palm of my hand I try to remember the feeling of falling down So you can kiss all of my wounds I’ll never get over you getting over me A dying star Cold blank stare of a hundred yards All in the palm of my hand You are always trying to pull my heart pounding inside my head.
4.
Trigger Wave 03:55
Far over the horizon There’s a gate on the edge of town A little taste of cinnamon As we melt into the crowd There’s something happening They say it’s nothing at all But here comes the trigger wave We are searching For faces in the crowd We are searching Burying our doubt For every saint with a long past There’s a sinner with a future lost In every corner of the third world There’s a martyr with their fingers crossed Can’t escape and can’t be found You’re just a face behind the shroud Can’t replace the blinding sound
5.
Snow Bird 04:00
Cover me with sheets of white Unbroken generations time I bought my house to stay with me Gonna trade the cold for sunshine Gotta make a clean cut, so I’ve heard I know I’m gonna leave you someday Then I’m gonna regret every word New England’s yankee heart of stone No difference where I make my home I’m sailing off to distant sands
6.
This afternoon while chasing the clouds around, Closing in the palm of my hand Wandering into the great unknown Where nothing goes according to plan All kingdoms turn to sand I got caught in the garden All I could say was my pardon The trees were alive and flowed like water All I could do was step farther Dropped my guard watching the floating ring Dancing in the palm of his hand Accounting my time is lost in the rhyme Where nothing goes according to plan All kingdoms turn to sand I can remember everything
7.
We counted all the cards, the truth is I cheated, so did you We couldn’t stand to lose If I had the nerve, I’d call out to Hera, save this house But it doesn’t matter now Through this salt and pepper beard that wears me now There’s no forgetting about regrets It’s on the table in the open, no disguise Embracing the honest resolve always A long unbroken line would end with me but I tied the string And passed you the ending We’re giving up the ghost
8.
We’re driving in the rain from state to state The growing city edges rising from the page A steel and concrete Tetris in my mind A distant empty place we’re leaving all behind tonight Can’t hide anymore Won’t try ‘cause your skyline ruins me Your skyline ruins me Your skyline of ruins The grey horizon swallows up the storm But streets still shine between the cracks all newly torn Every light is buzzing for me now The city coming back to life and growing for tonight Moths to the bright lantern Trapped in gaze Driving back at sunrise Sleep my days
9.
Cave In 03:43
Beautiful sunrises, I could have seen every day Sometimes I think of you, the way that the fear didn’t take What if I stayed, why didn’t I stay I don’t know why anymore Heavy with regret, I couldn’t move if I tried A simple betrayal, came cascading down and buried me What could I say, what should I say I don’t know why anymore I was caught in the cave in, so afraid I can’t dig out.
10.
All your wishes will come true for wealth and fame and time to waste Within the rosary you clutch, your faith and fear will have to wait And just when you were feeling good enough Another wrecking ball comes crashing through the wall And just when you had thought you’d had enough Another wrecking ball comes crashing through the wall And now you’ll never be the same While I fight for every breath, a levy holding back the flood A beast in hiding shows its teeth, a cancer growing in your blood
11.
Perigee Moon 03:53
Bury me now in the morning before I change my mind Time is so slow it’s a warning, the clock it unwinds You were so sure I caved in It didn’t know what to do when the hound had caught the hare A silent place here in exile, avenue nowhere A tone, hollow and pure, sounding true A break miles away from shore, we count the waves We’re sure to wash away, it’s certain but we still stay Perigee moon, brings perigee tide, so close I’m pulling in Questions of heart, a set aside mind, but the distance growing thin All of the parts and cogs disappear, it’s a simple A to B Hearing your breath so desperately near, its where I need to be so I don’t fall away

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2019 RPM submission.

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released February 28, 2019

Featuring Andrew Osborn, Guitar, on King Ampersand

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Jarrett Osborn Salem, New Hampshire

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