Name: No Demands
Duration: P00H04M42S
Description: This was the first track Vern sent the (more or less) completed music to Norah.

No Demands

from Songs For Samuel by Norah Vincent & Vern Woodhead

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This was the first track Vern sent the (more or less) completed music to Norah.

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NO DEMANDS

Out there, you are too far away,
Too gone, for me to touch you.
But here, lost again in the dark,
With these tears, I can feel you.

Aloud, you never say a word
To relieve a broken mind.
But alone, holding you this way,
holding still, I can hear you.

I'LL GRANT YOU, MAKE YOU NO DEMANDS
AND YOU WILL DO THE SAME, FOR IN THIS,
OUR PARADISE OF SILENCE
WHERE THE DISTANCE TENDERS NO HAND
AND OUR EARS AND TONGUES DESERT US
OR IS IT THE OTHER WAY AROUND?
WE RECITE NO CREED OF ANSWERS
THERE ARE NO QUESTIONS TO WITHSTAND
SO WE TUG EACH OTHER DEAFLY
AND REACHING, MUTELY UNDERSTAND

Somewhere—way beyond—in some “there,”
Unmapped, and so unnamed,
That’s a blank to all our instruments,
We’ve a place to coexist.

As presence, as absence—to me,
You’re as real as you ever were,
Precious ghost of no dimension,
Dearest friend I never knew.

I'LL GRANT YOU, MAKE YOU NO DEMANDS
AND YOU WILL DO THE SAME, FOR IN THIS,
OUR PARADISE OF SILENCE
WHERE THE DISTANCE TENDERS NO HAND
AND OUR EARS AND TONGUES DESERT US
OR IS IT THE OTHER WAY AROUND?
WE RECITE NO CREED OF ANSWERS
THERE ARE NO QUESTIONS TO WITHSTAND
SO WE TUG EACH OTHER DEAFLY
AND REACHING, MUTELY UNDERSTAND

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from Songs For Samuel, track released October 1, 2019
Words: Norah Vincent
Music: Vern Woodhead
Vocal: Vern Woodhead
Backing Vocal: Norah Vincent
Guitars: Vern Woodhead
Piano: Lars Pottiger
Bass: Dmitry Ishenko
Drums: Rob Mitzner
Mix: Charles Burst

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