It’s an easy thing to forget the way the wind moves through our rushing veins on a summer’s day. You’re drowning in rain. Do you hear the sounds of the engines now the train tracks like spider legs have crossed this town? Do you hear them now? It’s really quite a sound. Are you listening now? It’s really quite a sound. If you cut loose that attitude that’s holding you to those modern blues, just cut them loose, and think of the things you’ll do. You could dam a river span, or chart the course through ancient land, or lend a hand to your fellow man in Michigan or Afghanistan. Well, it’s your plan, you grain of sand. It’s all in our hands, like grains of sand. I couldn’t tell heaven from hell, the water was warm and the current was so strong it shattered shells. Should you heed those swells, godspeed to you, my belle. It’s a wishing well, and I wish you well.
credits
from Heliotrope (2011),
released March 1, 2011
w/ Meyer brown on bass, Sam Brown on banjo, Ian Legge on cello
West Virginia country-folk singer-songwriter Trae Sheehan aims to find a balance between the traditional and the modern on his new LP. Bandcamp New & Notable Sep 29, 2020