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A Duller Lens

from Southerly by T Ferrell

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Loosely based on the fiction of Walker Percy, with a line borrowed from Keats

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Ran into an old friend, she looked me over then
She said, "man you look a little worse for the wear."
She smiled and sighed and said “I guess it’s been a while, pour yourself a drink and pull up a chair.”

She said: “Those sunken eyes, make you seem a little tired,
they were blue, now they seem a little bit grayer;
The nights are endless when you stay awake listening
for the silence of being no one from nowhere”

And I was looking for a theme,
Some geometric measurement;
But she said "it’s all in vain,
She said everything’s an accident;
And if you’re looking for your place,
Well, you’re gonna need a duller lens and a sharper sense of emptiness."

The stakes seems awful fierce, but only if you stand too near,
the shadows lengthen where your mind bends concave,
and your best endeavor to be remembered,
will always be the worst use of your days;
So just let the earth erode, go where it's gonna go,
and put that hundred pound chisel away;
the name you've etched to remain after you've left;
well, it's writ in water anyway

And I awoke from a dream, you were leading me to the sea,
but you said it's all a vague reflection of my vanity
And if I'm looking for a meaning, I'm gonna need a duller lens
and a sharper sense of emptiness

drive away from the malaise

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from Southerly, released May 5, 2015

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T Ferrell Washington, D.C.

Mississippi native Taylor Ferrell writes and performs anti-establishment alt-country music. His populist themes and gritty stories channel Bruce Springsteen and Steve Earle. On his debut album, Jesus Year, Ferrell weaves whiskey-soaked tales of Mississippi working class heroes doing battle with corrupt preachers, man-eating vultures, and Confederate Generals. ... more

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