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The Mountains

from Emergency Response (demo) by Pete Davis

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This song was improvised before recording to test out a new microphone.

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Here's an anthem to mourn
An ode to a tragedy
We look slant like displaced
Figurines on the wall

So look, we hear that Father's coming home
And goodly Sister's hanged the draperies
Now to see that Mother's been awake
We've been away for too long
To stand up straight with all our nerves aligned,
Give it time.

I told you that you musn't wait up, I'll arrive late tonight.

Read the lines in my hands.
Breathe my sighs with pretense.

(Take it slow...)
I'll bring flowers to dinner, tread love through the snow
Calmly piece together this sweetly sorrow
(we've moved on...)
All the neighbors are gone, they've since passed away
But new neighbors came to settle on their grave

And ours will stretch out toward the sky, the gods will set by our side
The mountains and tall trees will stand in our way no more

This place is full of moving shadows
That no one sees when no light shines through

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from Emergency Response (demo), track released January 1, 2006
P Davis: Acoustic guitar, Vocals

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