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03 - Simple Things

from October Bird by Wes Aikens

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SIMPLE THINGS

Forty three and change
Have made the clock
Since I’ve been on the road
And thirty more before the Ninety
To beat the sun and lay me down
Before the whistle blows
Is now the only thing
That keeps me
Pushing all my tired bones
Across the frozen country roads tonight

One more song to sing into the wheel
And one more passing smile
As if I had you here beside me
To break the silence
Of another dark December mile
And show me where to find
The summer days I’ve hidden
Deep inside
A long forgotten time
Somewhere behind me

I drive over the train tracks
And I hear them



Singing softly to me
“Hey now, hey, come on
Why have you not seen
The West Virginia sun
In seven years or so”
And they say
“Hey now, hey, come on
Follow me, I’ll show you
All the simple things
You used to want to know
Not so long ago”

Shot across
The blackened winter roads
Toward the city lights
Like the arrows of the Maker
To leave the highway for awhile
And join the gravel lines
That run across
The hallowed homes
Of riverbeds and mountain pines
Is all that fills my tired mind tonight

Count up all
The windmills on the ridge
And write the number down
Across the record of reflection
And search the edges of the mind
To find an exit from
The hammers and the engines
Of the timeclock
And the busy songs
Of those that fight
To sell you their protection

I park down by the train tracks
And I hear them
Singing softly to me
“Hey now, hey, come on
Why have you not seen
The West Virginia sun
In seven years or so”
And they say
“Hey now, hey, come on


Follow me, I’ll show you
All the simple things
You used to want to know

And they say
“Hey now, hey,
I don’t know if you remember
All the paradise
That sleeps under the snow
And they say
“Hey now, hey, come on
Follow me, I’ll show you
All the simple things
You used to want to know
Not so long ago”

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from October Bird, released December 5, 2013

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