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Painting Song

from Seven Songs EP by Cornelius Eady

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Words: Cornelius Eady
Music: Cornelius Eady and Rough Magic
Arranged by Rough Magic

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Painting Song

There’s a sea in a bottle,
There are pigs in the sky.
There are clouds where your lungs were,
But don’t ask me why.

You just do what you have to,
You just see what you see.
Scratch your head, if you want to,
Makes no difference to me.

I’m unscrambling my head,
Painting, painting
Decoding what the light just said,
Painting, painting
Pushing breath through my brush
Filling in the blanks, as we must.

Maybe you’d like a postcard,
Or a slap on the back.
You made the wrong turn, buddy,
Your trains on the wrong track.

You keep looking for Whistler,
You get ghouls at the mall.
A woman’s accusations,
Holy warts, and all.

I’m unscrambling my head,
Painting, painting
Decoding what the light just said,
Painting, Painting
Pushing breath through my brush,
Filling in the blanks, as we must.

You just do what you have to,
You just see what you see.
Scratch your head, if you want to,
It’s just music to me.

For Susan Micklem

credits

from Seven Songs EP, released January 22, 2014
Cornelius Eady: Vocal
Robin Messing: Vocal
Concetta Abbate: Violin & Vocal
Emma Alabaster: Bass & Vocal
Charlie Rauh: Guitar
Leo Ferguson: Drums

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Cornelius Eady New York, New York

Cornelius Eady is the author of 8 books of poetry, lives in NYC and is the co-founder of Cave Canem. The band Rough Magic came out of the sessions for his CD/Chapbook BOOK OF HOOKS. (Kattywompus Press, Jan. 2013)

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