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the lessening

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“perhaps that is the saddest loss time brings, the lessening of excitement about anything”
John Updike, Rabbit At Rest


Written, recorded and mixed November 2018 to December 2019 by this dirty river





Lyrics:

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the lessening

Foremost I will
not learn
piano
I will seek some rest
Some compromise
with my body
Foremost
I will seek

At least
some things are clear now
most ambitions gone
A lot of brain fuck to forget now
At least
I can start to disconnect now
from knowing how
to do the things I’ve done so long

& if I die it will be over again
Hope still some years remain
to stop the reasoning
to start the vanishing
to feel the lessening
the lessening
floating in time

All these fading colors
All these variations of the same
Time runs
a prison
& at last
we will
escape
to nowhere


At last
I won’t care about the weather
Too weak for whatever
At last
I will have outgrown my past forever
At last
There is not much left to ask
While losing my memories
I’ll lose my mind gradually

& if I die it will be over again
Hope still some years remain
to cease the reasoning
to start the vanishing
to feel the lessening
the lessening
floating back in time
fading back


At last
it will be quiet
At last
the stars will be alone
At last
some trees will survive me
when all is lost
but the song

Foremost I will
At last I won’t
At least I live
At last
I don’t

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released December 20, 2019

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