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The Shape of All Forevers

from Songs For Samuel by Norah Vincent & Vern Woodhead

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lyrics

THE SHAPE OF ALL FOREVERS

We boast inventions,
That are really no such thing.
All those leaps of human genius,
That once dazzled as unique,
End as imitation.

Discovery turns out instead
To be reused,
Derived again from models
That obtain throughout,
In atoms, galaxies, and us.

OUR GREEDY EGOS EVER SPIN
(ON THE AXES OF OURSELVES)
AND JUST AS SURELY AS WE TWIRL
(LIKE ALL PLANETARY FORMS)
WE ORBIT TOO
SPIRALING THROUGH SEASONS
(THE PASSIONS OF OUR LIVES)
ALWAYS COMING BACK TO THE FAMILIAR
(WHICH SOMEHOW YET AGAIN)
SEEMS STRANGE

The widest realms we conceive,
Infinity, eternity,
Space and time without end,
Even they are closed,
For there is nothing,
Nothing outside them.

The shape of all forevers
Must be curved,
Double back, repeat.
Cycles of return preside,
The only mode and means
Of everlasting.

OUR GREEDY EGOS EVER SPIN
(ON THE AXES OF OURSELVES)
AND JUST AS SURELY AS WE TWIRL
(LIKE ALL PLANETARY FORMS)
WE ORBIT TOO
SPIRALING THROUGH SEASONS
(THE PASSIONS OF OUR LIVES)
ALWAYS COMING BACK TO THE FAMILIAR
(WHICH SOMEHOW YET AGAIN)
SEEMS STRANGE

The dead feed the living
As surely as they fed
The cancers and the vermin
That consumed them.
We die, and then we rot,
Turn back into the minerals
We’re made of.

Nutrifying plants
Engorge the guts
Of masticating animals,
Emerge again
To fertilize in turn
More generations.

OUR GREEDY EGOS EVER SPIN
(ON THE AXES OF OURSELVES)
AND JUST AS SURELY AS WE TWIRL
(LIKE ALL PLANETARY FORMS)
WE ORBIT TOO
SPIRALING THROUGH SEASONS
(THE PASSIONS OF OUR LIVES)
ALWAYS COMING BACK TO THE FAMILIAR
(WHICH SOMEHOW YET AGAIN)
SEEMS STRANGE

credits

from Songs For Samuel, track released October 3, 2019
Words: Norah Vincent
Music: Vern Woodhead
Lead Vocal: Vern Woodhead
Other Vocals: Norah Vincent
Guitars: Vern Woodhead
Keyboard: Vern Woodhead
Bass: Dmitry Ishenko
Drums: Rob Mitzner
Mix: Charles Burst

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