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All Around the River

from Primal Rumble by Gretchen Lohse

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I am not a willow
though I wish that I could be
a solitary temple
silent and wise
With secrets of the world
sweet and tremulous as time
I'd let the wind blow through me
with little more than a sigh

I've forgotten where I'm going
where I've been and where I'll be
I walk through fields of echos
kind as shadows, warm as snow

All around the river, dear
I will walk until my feet appear to bleed
and I grow old

I am not a Pharaoh
though I wish that I could be
golden and unnamed
silent and wise
I'd sleep throughout eternity
as all things passed me by
I'd stare like Nefertiti
captive in Berlin.

I've forgotten where I'm going
where I've been and where I'll be
I walk through fields of echos
kind as shadows, warm as snow

All around the river, dear
I will walk until my feet appear to bleed
and I grow old

I am not a sailboat
though I wish that I could be
half sunk under water
silent and wise
I'd go where I was told to
never minding where I'd go
I'd listen as the waves call
"sail away, oh! sail away"

I've forgotten where I'm going
where I've been and where I'll be
I walk through fields of echos
kind as shadows, warm as snow

All around the river, dear
I will walk until my feet appear to bleed
and I grow old


All around the river, dear
I will walk until my feet appear to bleed
and I grow old

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from Primal Rumble, released December 10, 2013
Gretchen Lohse: vocals, guitar

Alec Meltzer: percussion

Mike Quinn: guitar, backing vocals

Brian Langan: backing vocals

Alex Luquet: upright bass

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Gretchen Lohse Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Gretchen Lohse is a native Philadelphia singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. As the front woman of Philadelphia psychedelic folk rock band Yellow Humphrey, she dreams up rich, strange musical tapestries- part memoir and part tall tale- that are heavily influenced by folklore and silent films. Solo, she is barebones and delicate, her songs full of ghosts and unrequited love. ... more

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