3.11.11

Snowplow Central Station (A Canadian Love Song)


My wonderful band has just recorded this song as our contribution to the 2011 Design Hope project. If you like the lyrics, you're going to love the music! I'll keep you posted on the release date--as soon as I know, you'll know, too...

Snowplow Central Station

winter erases this city 
one streetlight at a time
replaces the grey of everyday
with a palace of purest white

            me: driving aimless through this wilderness
            of straight lines
            searching for a curve to serve
            as model for my lost smile

the music of a hundred aimless
radios in our fingertips;
the static of a falling sky
melting on our tongues and lips

            you: working dispatch           
            for roadside assistance
            beating swords to snow plows
            for the Broken Heart Resistance Front

all the roads home
lose focus and fade

blue lights map the night        
invent us a city phrase by phrase
carving love letters—
black lines on this empty page   
        
            a map for every wanderer
            clearing the way back home…

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