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Martha & me

from Stoop by Steve K Carmody

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Martha’s on the back step,
moving to the front left, you know?
she’s whisking a dozen egg yolks,
while my wounded leg soaks, you know?
and I’ll tell her I’ll settle more than just dreams,
I’ll settle checkbooks on silk screens, you hear?
but this kettled milk’s a scalded brew
tasting like my life’s through, by god!

[chorus]:
oh, but Martha’s like, “tell me somethin’ I don’t know,
I’ve been tired for years waitin’ for you to come back home
I feel lost in this town, besmirched, bereft—
I was on the back step when I lost the front left”

to her arms I’ll follow
the better thoughts of longing, now gone,
I gave her now an old thought,
that travels had stayed me, still and all, for good,
but she hands to me a creased note
that a better me once sadly wrote, “Dear one,
I’m in joy to hold your hand,
in joy I see the moonlight on your skin”

[chorus]

I’ll leave this town tomorrow,
and I’ll write to her and borrow his words
to find my love in going
for porch-lit nights are pointing me towards
a place that’s squarely ‘way from here,
away, away until I long again,
for smarting barbs are better things,
it beats the trapped-up thoughts of what’s been

[chorus]

just sing yourself an incantation
it goes like this, it’s kept me going:
“don’t tell me that the moon shines, girl,
show me that the moonshine will go on and see you there”

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from Stoop, released December 25, 2012
Steve Carmody — Guitar & vocals
Tucker Dalton — Drums

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Steve K Carmody Providence, Rhode Island

Music born in Providence, RI.

Featuring:
Nupur Shridhar,
Tucker Dalton,
Sam Adler-Bell,
and Steve Carmody.

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