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Knock On My Door And I'll Knock On Yours

by Sighthound

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1.
Wayfaring 04:03
I am a poor wayfaring stranger I am a dog I am a light I am the sound, low and gentle Carrying through the house tonight I am a king, cruel and foolish I am a wolf I am a deer I am the place in the distance That isn’t home, but somewhere near Where did you go Where did you come from I am your wayfaring stranger A little frog you hear at night
2.
Wintering out in between The sharper ends of the dream Trading songs til one so brutal and so bold Watching the molecules slow Into rain then into snow But when a man’s in love he feels no cold Any hunger that keeps us from under the ground Winter, oh In your cocoon winter coat Under your plumage of smoke Winter with me Take me up silently Slake my heart February comes like a bird Against the grey morning blur Unfledged, falling premature from the nest To the earth The same hunger will keep us from under the ground Winter, oh In your cocoon winter coat Under your plumage of smoke Winter with me Even if spring will be stillborn
3.
What would you say to me if I said to you We should leave Just up and go We could swim into the Midsummer My friend My willow Reflect in the river No cloud in the sky The sunlight pours down Out of our eyes We’ll stay outside into the night Stay up drinking communion wine Grass stains on your ankles Grass seeds in my hair Cutting our swathe through strange and ancient air The blisters on our hearts We’ll cast them from our minds And raise a cup of kindness Raise a cup of wine Next to the stream we’ll sit and weep And hang our harps on willow trees Into the stream / Into this dream
4.
Smoke 04:27
If even the weariest river eventually Winds somewhere safe to sea Then we, me and you We will wind down somehow too Watching to see which way it will go Blowing smoke out the window I’m not afraid of taking aim Lighting matches, lighting flames Ashtray to ashtray, lust to lust And grinding teeth into dust Waking up is holy terror I know it’s hard to let yourself be seen Heart open and eyes closed Naked but not exposed Watching to see which way it will go Blowing smoke out the window I’m not afraid of taking aim Lighting matches, lighting flames Ashtray to ashtray, lust to lust From what you can to what you must Ain’t that the way It takes so much prevarication just to say: "It’s been a fucking lovely day I’m glad you came to stay"
5.
"Fear" 05:46
Shipwrecked and blue in the ice Casting my dice to the sea Imagining shapes in the stars over me And I float singing words I learned by rote Crystalline and clear So I don’t hear Until you say: "fear" Something just wilts behind your eyes Something happens inside your brain I look up at you like a dog Asking its master to stop the rain A lost ship, a phoenix And a never be And strings that we don’t see Pull you from above In and out of love
6.
Bronco 05:04
Waxwing’s been and gone The rains will arrive and unload and move on A runaway only gets so far But the poem we are once it starts never ends Just gives way to silence When you reach the end of your breath But that’s not the end And lying on your chest I listen to your breath Deep and slow like footsteps in snow Like a bronco back in stable after the rodeo So when you ask me what I’m thinking of I tell you the truth I say: ‘nothing at all’ To be in love and never know what it is you love Or why there’s nothing on your mind Well I guess love is mercy Love is a view of the whole from the middle And I am a relic carved in your heart Old and new like déja vu Like footsteps in footprints already made So we could keep writing poetry But what would that be Against the wind ripping through the trees
7.
Free 02:50
Would you roll me a number I had the strangest dream Burning off my fingerprints In a bonfire of vanities So if you ever need me I’m more or less free Amaranthus growing in out and through my chest And like a bulletproof vest I can take half a dozen hits at best And I wish my dreams would just let me get sleep All I need is some decent sleep And I will be more or less free By the time the scaffolding has been taken down You tell me I will be Heart-hardened and more or less free
8.
And I would circle round the way that I feel In the words of a dead Frenchman And as I stumble on symbols You would listen so carefully You always had a special way I had no shadow of conviction You kissed me on the crook of my arm And from inside a haze of cough syrup and comedown malaise You looked down on me like something had changed We could lock all the doors and windows We could refuse to leave this bed You know I don’t have any solution But if you need somewhere to rest your head Maybe I’ll see you down the road When it’s not like it was before You would not believe how much I’ve missed you Knock on my door and I’ll knock on yours My love
9.
The Border 05:33
When the snow comes we’ll fly south Get some sun on our scars And I will brook the interval From where you used to be to where you are Could we put the world behind us Til the border disappears Could we keep each other up all night Could you love me without fear You’ll be relieved to see the back of me And I’ll be relieved to see the back of you You will have my heart forever Just put your ear to the ground And you’ll hear that sound And when you wake up tomorrow The sky will still be here The clouds and the smoke won’t have cleared And when you wake up tomorrow The birds will still be here The horse and the frog, the wolf and the deer And if I’m gone I won’t be far I won’t be long

credits

released November 2, 2019

Matthew Adesina - bass guitar, piano, rhodes
Mallika Buckle - fiddle
Ben Schlossman - drums
Sam Warren Miell - guitar, singing, piano, space echo, noise
Eleanor Watson - singing

All songs by Sam Warren Miell
except ‘Bronco’ by Sam Warren Miell and Mallika Buckle

Recorded and mixed by Nick Howiantz
at Brixton Hill Studios, August/September 2019
Mastered by Chris Goosman at Baseline Audio

Artwork by William Joynson

Thanks to all who played and all who stayed.

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