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Quiet Things

from Backwater by Justin Gordon

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Justin - vocal, guitars, bass

Kill yr tv

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electricity was a flighty bird
they had tamed for awhile
she's a damn sight tamer than she was
when they pulled her from the sky
they wrote their names in ones and zeroes
stored somewhere in the cloud
they forgot their family histories
and were scared to speak out loud

their heads were bent in concentration
to their little light-up screens
as they gathered more information
stumbling through the streets
they watched actors reinvent their lives
as they smiled with plastic teeth
they were all dressed up for the camera's eye
and the rest they hid beneath

when the grid went down for the final time
it was a blessing in disguise
well, the lights went out and the screens went black
as the pigeons filled the sky
though the shop fronts burned on the boulevard
there was a crispness in the air
as a thousand eyes looked to the skies
finally seeing what was there

the mountains looked down from their stoic peaks
the valley held us in her hands
taking pity on the animals who tried to rule the land
now i watch them out by the tree line
as they search for kindling
it puts me in mind of a simpler time
when we loved the quiet things

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from Backwater, released January 11, 2019

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