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This is one I came up with while busking in Northampton last summer. Then, one day a few months later, I was in a rut and decided to drive up to Vermont until I had found a place to eat a sandwich and finish writing this song.

This song is for Jon Bekoff.

lyrics

Why do I stand
out in the field
and ghost lights fly
from or’ the hills?

And up above
pitch blackness heals.
I thought the mountains
block out what kills.

I do not know
I do not know
where we’ll stand
as time goes slow.
You walk away
so graciously.
I do not know
I do not know.

I saw you sailing
out to sea
on wine-dark waves
and tattered leaves.

You fly so high
on your way 'round.
How can I catch you
on your way down?

I do not know
I do not know
where we’ll stand
as time goes slow.
You walk away
so graciously.
I do not know
I do not know.

I saw you playing
out in the field.
A wise young man
with a twisted beard.

Who’ll play the tunes
out by the pond?
I thought they said
you were dead and gone.

I do not know
I do not know
where we’ll stand
as time goes slow.
You walk away
so graciously.
I do not know
I do not know.

credits

from The Dead Ice Is Here, released February 19, 2019

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Benjamin Wetherbee Boston, Massachusetts

Old time music, singing, freaky fiddlin', and painting outta New England.

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