giants
were playing here and left
careless wander through the fallen trees
distant streamlined stainless steel
indifferent chrome
inconsequential yearnings
tugging at my better judgment
sun burned through to the stronghold
the other reasons
that i had are all forgotten
bereft of shallow fears i stand alone
mountain green the newborn wind
on my way home
unchain the phoenix let the battle unresolve
one eye lost in the fire’s cold
sonora got swallowed
by the road
happened just a couple weeks ago
endless woven strands of gold
still entrained
inconsequential yearnings
tugging at my better judgment
smoldering ash of a dream too old
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sonora
was debuted live at williams
college at the end of a truly weird gig that was played in a
kind of library or anteroom at a formal event whose nature and purpose
wholly eluded the band. the audience was uptight and disinterested,
some of the girls danced in a big circle like at
a high school cafeteria dance, and others kept walking in and out
of another room where something else apparently was
going on.
the band got spectacularly drunk as a kind of reflex action and
was too impaired to make it through any of the chord changes. the
same night also saw the debut of the 'blinking alarm clocks' stage
gimmick.
a
first version of sonora, recorded in connecticut in the early 1990s,
is reported to exist somewhere in non-digitized format.
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