The evil it spread like a fever ahead
It was night when you died, my firefly
What could I have said to raise you from the dead?
Oh could I be the sky on the Fourth of July?
Well you do enough talk
My little hawk, why do you cry?
Tell me what did you learn from the Tillamook burn?
Or the Fourth of July?
We’re all gonna die.
Sometimes you have to say goodbye. A double selection From Stevens' acclaimed 2015 album Carrie & Lowell, about his estranged mother and stepfather, two beautiful songs of several on this extraordinary valediction after their passing. The first, not without coincidence because of today's date, traditionally a source of celebration for one country. This song is chosen both as a tribute the very public and tragic deaths recently seen in the UK, but more particularly, as the Landlord, after the sad recent passing my own mother.
Spirit of my silence I can hear you
But I’m afraid to be near you
And I don’t know where to begin
And I don’t know where to begin
... mother, I can hear you
And I long to be near you
But every road leads to an end
Yes every road leads to an end.
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