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lyrics

PASSERBYE

Lying there,
Looking through
The lens of your end
To meet it square
With a straight face.
Your eyes had strayed
To the ceiling
And bounced across it now,
Between the corners of the room,
As if taking final measure
Of this place that you were leaving.
This sky, this ground,
These stultifying walls
Of consciousness,
From whose confines
You’d earned your release.

GO ON—BUT INCLUDE ME IF YOU CAN
AND SAY GOODBYE WITHOUT A WORD
BECAUSE THERE ARE NONE THAT CAN SAY
ALL THAT WE THINK WE MEAN
STILL WORDS ARE WHAT WE HAVE
INSTEAD OF INTUITION
AND THEY ARE HOW WE GO ON
SAYING ALL, AND KNOWING NOTHING

Your eyes had the look
Of understanding,
Which we’d all known
As children in school.
The filament glows
In the pupil’s eye
When the concept
Registers at last.

At last, you’d understood—
Purely, truly understood.
Revelation had arrived.
But it came, as it must,
At the end
And it came too late.

GO ON—BUT INCLUDE ME IF YOU CAN
AND SAY GOODBYE WITHOUT A WORD
BECAUSE THERE ARE NONE THAT CAN SAY
ALL THAT WE THINK WE MEAN
STILL WORDS ARE WHAT WE HAVE
INSTEAD OF INTUITION
AND THEY ARE HOW WE GO ON
SAYING ALL, AND KNOWING NOTHING

You’d waited
Your whole life long for this.
It was all you’d been able to do.
To wait, For purpose,
For meaning, For God
For God
Who is no thing, no being,
Not a noun at all.
But this spark of recognition
That comes after
So much expectation.

Enlightening, extinguishing at once
The time, the waiting,
And the one who waits.

GO ON—BUT INCLUDE ME IF YOU CAN
AND SAY GOODBYE WITHOUT A WORD
BECAUSE THERE ARE NONE THAT CAN SAY
ALL THAT WE THINK WE MEAN
STILL WORDS ARE WHAT WE HAVE
INSTEAD OF INTUITION
AND THEY ARE HOW WE GO ON
SAYING ALL, AND KNOWING NOTHING

credits

from Songs For Samuel, track released October 13, 2019
Words: Norah Vincent
Music: Vern Woodhead
Vocals: Vern Woodhead
Guitars: Vern Woodhead
Keyboard: Vern Woodhead
Drum Machine: Vern Woodhead
Mix: Charles Burst

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