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Even Keel

from Bough by Jon Atkins

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So it's even keel for the boats that we are now rowing.
I see the open sails for the land with the joyous glowing.
It came a little late, and the signs got a little blurry:
The fear of what I want floating away without me.
Am I just like you or do I need to be tied to the winter?
Are my horses dead or do they need to be put down and put to sleep?
Am I just like you or do I still get tired in the summer?
To me the sunlight said, "It would be best if you quit and were laid to rest."

It was a neutral day with the mask I had been wearing.
Could it be my fate with the love that you had been faking?
Through a silvery gate and beneath the bridges of patience,
My heart is on a plate while yours is in a cage of resistance.
Am I just like you or do I need to be tied to the winter?
Are my horses dead or do they need to be put down and put to sleep?
Am I just like you or do I still get tired in the summer?
To me the sunlight said, "It would be best if you quit and were laid to rest."

A little love by night, a little love by day,
I'm not getting my hopes up to carry you away...

Mother, your motherhood.
Your boy is down and he is not breathing.
Father, your fatherhood.
Your eyes don't speak, your mouth is not moving.
How is it understood that life is fair? That's nothing like it!
How am I understood if I don't scream when I stay quiet?
Now I am letting out that I grow weary.
I grow weary.

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from Bough, released February 3, 2012

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