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When the Moon

by Oliver Franklin

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1.
When You Awake When you awake, everything is in its proper place Everything is whole When you awake Wet with all the afterbirth and wide-eyed You will find it here Let me lift your worry then, Let me warm the grave that opened in your heart Leave the dying to the dead Leave the bodies on that distant shore Hey, come step into the light Oh, who are you to hide? Those jaws are open wide, You’ve finally arrived! When you awake, You will find there’s nothing left unsaid You will find… You have been a passenger On an ancient highway paved of bones and scars And the path has spiraled home Past the wreckage of a world as yet unknown Hey, come step into the light Oh, who are you to hide? Those jaws are open wide, But you’ve finally arrived! Shaken but alive!
2.
Lighthouse 04:38
Lighthouse There’s a red light On the lighthouse That the nightman can’t turn off It just blinks out Through the thick fog Like some siren on the rock Not a warning, but a welcome That no sailor can shake off And it scuttles every voyage And they still can’t get enough Let it in, just a tune in the back of your head, “Don’t run away” It’s sure to fade, sure to grow much softer in time Whispering like a gun at the back of your head, “Don’t run away” It only wants just the narrow road to your mind There’s a doorway Standing open where the bloated ocean flows It just yawns out on the shoreline And no hand can push it closed And it bids all men to enter And it whispers soft and low They would tear it from its hinges Just to find out where it goes Let it in, just a tune in the back of your head, “Don’t run away” It’s sure to fade, sure to get much softer in time Whispering like a gun at the back of your head, “Don’t run away” It only wants just the narrow road to your mind Let it in, just a wound in the back of your head, Don’t run away It’s sure to fade, sure to scar back over in time
3.
Either/Or 04:25
Either Or It either all makes sense, and I just don’t like it, Or nothing’s true and I just don’t care I’m inclined to ignore the signs, Hung up like criminals in the chair No one’s hungry all over the island There’s nothin’ to steal, everybody’s a cop It’s all gone quiet from New York to Brighton And noone’s on bottom cause you can’t see the top It either all makes sense and I just don’t sense it, Or nothin’s wrong but I’m not quite there I see trees made of blood and silver Starving in the filthy air But I’ve been inclined against my design The censors have missed the best of my dreams The cobwebs have cleared, and my only fear’s That everything’s actually just as it seems And don’t you want it, And don’t you need it now? Eyes fixed above you Feet bleedin on the ground I know you want it, I know you need it now You found the trigger, Where are your fingers, now? Yeah that’s right, you go on and crawl On your knees through the gap in your mind The light only burns if you give it a reason, Look at it sideways, ask for a sign And from now on this is love, Intangible arms and invisible eyes, The answer’s zero, but only for some Surely it’s heaven, for nothing can die And don’t you want it, And don’t you need it now Eyes fixed above you Feet bleedin on the ground I know you want it, I know you need it now You found the trigger, But where are your fingers, now?
4.
Sylvia 05:33
Sylvia Sylvia, stir your bones Kick your toes at how you want to vanish Drained and down These hateful towns They stare you down And call you out to fight them But you have been hiding Sylvia, let them know, Find the mark for every burning arrow Fill the stands, fate be damned, Tear the darkness with your shaky hands and Crawl through the ivy The cord has been cut and all of life is shining, Light out from light unbroken Sylvia, steal the throne Down below there’s only ugly kindness Deadly bold, ageless old, All the world will hold their breath in wait, Until you crawl through the ivy The cord has been cut and all of life is shining, Light out from light unbroken Come, crawl through the ivy The cord has been cut and all of life is shining, Light out from light unbroken And from a hollow dream, you’ll vanish and awake The fatal tremors of a dying night will fade Into the play of colors, elegant and free, Oh lovely!
5.
Mary 05:03
Mary Mary was her name, she could hear the waters whisper of her firstborn son Waiting in the shallows like a great black swan for the day to come With half-closed eyes, she was found by the river where their names were called And all this time, I’ve been waiting for the curtain to fall Mary was her name and she sank to the bottom while the band played on Waiting in the arms of the river like a lover with the shades all drawn The night split wide like the smile of a hunter while the wheels revolved And all this time, I’ve been waiting for the curtain to fall Mary was her name, she could shine like a diamond when the world was young Weighted to the ground in her long white gown with the veil undone Now we all join hands and we walk through the shadows by the western wall And all this time I’ve been waiting for the curtain to fall
6.
Last night anew, this haunted dream Two beacons shine down by the sea And something there approaches me I woke and rose most peacefully This swollen tomb, this empty well, Has split apart the children’s sides And scraped its coins across its teeth And thrown their bones out to the tide The heron’s brood is quiet now Their blood drunk deep beneath the reeds And when the moon draws back their graves They’ll wrap their murderer in wreaths Last night anew, this haunted dream I woke and rose most peacefully

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released October 1, 2012

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Oliver Franklin Boulder, Colorado

Oliver Franklin is a songwriter, composer and performer from the Pacific Northwest who now lives in Colorado. His raw but literate songwriting is a consistent through line as his musical explorations wind through ambitious electronic settings, gritty folk noir and lush psychedelia. ... more

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