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Thursday, April 16th, 2009

Night Clouds

i was working in the studio last night on the new record. as jon (my keyboard player) was leaving after the session, it dawned on me to get drunk. so i did. and then drunker.
it was fun. i stood on the porch and listened to 6 or 7 tracks from the new record.
i actually enjoyed the music. i think it took the booze to turn my mind down enough to just listen like a foreigner.

i woke up very hungover as expected. and then wrote this:

Night Clouds

I stood alone in my lawn again last night
Looking up... nothing but clouds.
Neighbors all around, sleeping.
Me, disheveled, lost and ambivalent...
Drunk from the Earth's spin.
And also just drunk.
Everything is in motion, blurry.
We're awash in words masquerading as direction.
Answers aren't hard to find...
But getting the question right... nearly impossible.
And when I find it, center in on it,
Reach and grab it with primitive faith,
Something crosses my mind--a trinket
And I'm back where I started:
Adrift here in my lawn,
Blinking up into night clouds.

Posted By John Common at: 12:04 am

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Night Clouds

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