
Date of issue: 23.03.2017
Record label: P.W. Elverum & Sun
Song language: English
Forest Fire |
The year moves on without you in it |
Now it is fall without you |
I had to close the windows and doors without you coming through |
I kept them open for as long as I could |
But the baby got cold |
I watched the calendar bulldoze |
This whole past summer was a lingering heatwave |
And I remember late August, our open bedroom window, going through your things |
with the fan blowing |
And the sound of helicopters, and the smell of smoke |
From the forest fire that was growing, billowing just on the edge of town where |
we used to swim |
They say a natural, cleansing devastation, burning in the understory, |
erasing trails, there is no end |
But when I’m kneeling in the heat throwing out your underwear |
The devastation is not natural or good, you do belong here |
I reject nature, I disagree |
In the hazy light of forest fire smoke, I looked across at the refineries and |
thought that the world was actually constantly ending |
And the smell and roar of the asphalt truck that was idling just out the window, |
tearing up our street |
I missed you, of course |
And I remember thinking the last time it rained here you were alive still |
And that this same long heat that I was in contained you |
And in this same heat, I opened the window next to you on your last morning |
So you could breathe, and then so you could ghost away |
And now so the room will hopefully stop whispering |
The grind of time I’m not keeping up with |
The leaf on the ground pokes at my slumbering grief |
Walking around, severed, lumbering |
But slowly, sovereignty reasserts itself |
I don’t want it though, and betrayal whines |
Who and how could I… Live? |
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