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Path Overgrown

by Todd Warner Moore

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1.
When you found out You were more Than this matter Locked together Did your weather Stand up To the laughter Hereafter? That the Phantom weight You carried You alone Had made That the things That had hindered you Would lead to Purest states Oh once more to return again Oh once more to return To your path Overgrown And Unknown That this Kindness found Inside the edges Of your heart and mind Untethered The defences In your life? That the Phantom weight You carried You alone Had made That the things That had hindered you Would lead to Purest states Oh once more to return again Oh once more to return To your path Overgrown And Unknown That your thoughts Were once the inkblots That obscured Your diamond mind How you'd lived Your days In habit By design? That the Phantom weight You carried You alone Had made That the things That had hindered you Would lead to Purest states Oh once more to return again Oh once more to return To your path Overgrown And Unknown To your path Overgrown And Unknown To your path Overgrown And unknown
2.
Out in the sea you are swimming There are plastic bags there And I know you don’t care But I want to know Is in some other lifetime And it may sound absurd Were you a fish or a bird? ‘Cause the feeling so appealing Is that things can only get better When you float like a feather Or you grin with your fins When migrations of birds And the fish are the swell Of a unified world And I want to be Like you in the sea Never seen one so free See what you want to see But I still want to know Is in some other lifetime And it may sound absurd Were you a fish or a bird? ‘Cause the feeling so appealing Is that things can only get better When you float like a feather Or you grin with your fins When migrations of birds And the fish are the swell Of a unified world ‘Cause the feeling so appealing Is that things can only get better When you float like a feather Or you grin with your fins When migrations of birds And the fish are the swell Of a unified world Of a unified world Of a unified world Of a unified world
3.
Little Cobra 03:27
Behind our house a trail we walked Down below the circling hawks There were frogs that leapt And lizards in the sun Beads of water on a web That had just been spun Our neighbour held a bag in hand A reptile found beneath the sand Then we saw it stand up straight A baby snake All I can say is we were Frozen there in place A little cobra Little cobra We'd walked that way so many times Where dangers hid from passersby Little cobra Little cobra Little cobra in plain sight The path we took so many times Beside the swamp was redefined There were hazards in the things We once dismissed and they'd become The signs that dangled on A ravelling ball of twine And so we walk the same old walk We watch the shadows as we talk There are other ways to go We like to be aware beside the grass With every step we take on this great path A little cobra Little cobra We'd walked that way so many times Where dangers hid from passersby Little cobra Little cobra Little cobra in plain sight And to know Or not to know And to know Or not to know From the garden we go Just to get Back back back back back Just to get Back back back to Little cobra Little cobra In the corners of our minds We like the dangers that we find Little cobra Little cobra Little cobra in plain sight
4.
Empty Page 02:32
She buys a new Spiral notebook Every time she gets the urge To dream She writes A couple of lines And then she Close up the book She's got 27 notebooks With two lines In each book She is thumbing through The limitless space Of the empty page Alone In her room She sees the slideshow Of her life She clicks from Picture to Picture Of all these faces Like strangers And then she comes To the blinding space In between the slides She is thumbing through The limitless space Of the empty page Once you think You know the way You throw away All of your maps Feels a little uneasy When you stray away From the text Yeah we've all Got our ruts Which we've carved With our Wagon wheels And we all Need the rain To wash away The ruts And we all Know the fear Of floating On the flood When we are Thumbing through The limitless space Of the empty page Thumbing through The limitless space Of the empty page Thumbing through The limitless space Of the empty page
5.
On 03:43
He's been up all night Into the morning light Ghost-white From the fight And he's running now To a distant sound Starts to drown Verb to noun She says I wish I could Spin a song for you A passage To a place so new But you're On all the time On all the time And I'm struggling To find the line If you were a butterfly Looking down at you You’d be mollified What to do You’d see the bug Not the vivid wings Pinned to the rug Of everything She says I wish I could Spin a song for you A passage To a place so new But you're On all the time On all the time And I'm struggling To find the line And I'm struggling To find the line But if I could sing to you We could see this pass If I could sing to you It would not last This bell I'd ring To your truest self You would find your wings For we're just guests She says I wish I could Spin a song for you A passage To a place so new But you're On all the time On all the time And I'm struggling To find the line And I'm struggling To find the line
6.
Buildings 03:06
Nothing stayed In that place Where they resided Every blade Could prey From inside All the rings of smoke That echoed from their hearts So they fell further From the hub of a wheel On a road No one behind the wheel Down the slippery slope of ideals What new wreck each day revealed While the buildings burned Beneath the stars But their hearts Found a way To depart And their hearts Turned waste To art Discontentment With the static Of the past Not to fall From the hub of a wheel On a path No one behind the wheel Down the slippery slope of ideals What new wreck each day revealed While the buildings burned Beneath the stars While the buildings burned Beneath the stars While the buildings burned Beneath the stars
7.
Ways 02:19
You’re never sure about The choices made You’re never sure about The things You should have said They go around In your brain And you do it again And you do it again And you do it again These are the stories That we tell ourselves We like to keep them In old bookshelves It's a tired trend Never seems to end And we do it again In our own ways We’re always In our way But today disobey disobey The worst critic ever You will ever know Lives in you From long ago Comes to visit again Like a nervous friend Again and Again Again and Again When every thought Is an ought to be Not really The really real Goes around and around And we do it again And we do it again And in our own ways We’re always In our way But today disobey disobey You’re never sure about The choices made You’re never sure about The things You should have said They go around In your brain And you do it again And you do it again And you do it again These are the stories That we tell ourselves We like to keep them In old bookshelves It's a tired trend Never seems to end And we do it again And in our own ways We’re always In our way But today disobey disobey
8.
Gratitude 01:56
Not so very long ago His workers were his Stepping stones He didn’t really Think about His harmful Undertones Now he sees In retrospect The ways that That he could Not connect Only thought How he’d reply Never looked Them in the eyes And there was no Lightning strike No watershed Transformed his mind Just smiled Into his prime He moved from Latitude To fortitude To gratitude In magnitude may sound like Platitudes But we saw His change Of mood Now he leads A different life Perhaps a crisis In midlife Funny how his brain Has changed We never could Explain Tranquillity Our natural state Before some Become so irate Before forming Rugged shells These self-inflicted Hells And there was no Lightning strike No watershed Transformed his mind Just smiled Into his prime He moved from Latitude To fortitude To gratitude In magnitude may Seem like Platitudes But we saw His change Of mood
9.
Book of Sky 03:18
There’s a Book of sky Inside my coat Inscribed With light In every note Are the codes Of the songs We know And it stitches Everything We’ve done Watercolour Drops that run The paints The notes Of Touch No divide And wide To fly inside Turn this Book of sky Into a history of us Runs through the light Of our love But at times The book will Lose its words They escape Like uncaged birds In flight Only sky In my palm And suddenly Appear again A different time A different rhyme Infused through songs In this book No divide And wide To fly inside Turn this Book of sky Into The history of us Runs Through the light Of our love Bridge Turn this Book of sky Into a history of us Runs Through the light Of our love Turn this Book of sky Into a history of us Runs Through the light Of our love
10.
The Day They 06:19
See the couple crying in the grass Their picnic basket is smashed Full of bread fruit and wine They are trying to recover all the love undone All the fun, overrun by the weeds of time But it wouldn’t take a miracle To pull them out Of the thunderstorm And today it seems possible The way the petals fall in uniform Where the bubbles that they bottled From their finest years Intertwine with the wine and the spring rain tears And it all comes together All the better and the worse But the thirst for the first time Has gone away It’s the day they came together in the rain It’s the day they came together in the rain It’s the day they came together in the rain rain rain Walking through this garden They had once perceived as a city Of litter and cracked black streets And they are Opening umbrellas while the rain in turn Gives birth to the flowers around their feet And it didn’t take a miracle To bring them back into the circle In the heart of the thunderstorm Where anything is possible Where the bubbles that they bottled From their finest years Intertwine with the wine and the spring rain tears And it all comes together All the better and the worse But the thirst for the first time Has gone away It’s the day they came together in the rain It’s the day they came Together in the rain rain rain It’s the day they came together in the rain It’s the day they came Together in the rain rain rain
11.
Book of Sea 03:52
My book of sea Aquamarine Silverfish jump All I can see Gold coral reefs Under the sun Are pale green fires When the day is done And the lines That I read Carry me through My book of sea My book of sea But my book of sea Stows so deep Pearls of grief I no longer feel And in my book of sea Pain from below Floats to the surface Dissolves in the flow And the lines That I read Carry me through My book of sea My book of sea And the lines That I read Carry me to Sunlight Sunlight Sunlight Sunlight Sunlight Sunlight Sunlight
12.
Well they’d drive down that old gravel road By a patch of wild chives And the ruts ran deep on that old road Which they’d carved out all our lives Oh and they'd sing Oh and they'd sing And they found their secret swimming hole On the side of Silver Creek They would swim in peace under the moon And they'd laugh but did not speak Oh and they'd sing Oh and they'd sing Then they'd pull out her old warped guitar And they'd sing beside the field Though they did not sing in harmony They would sing so happily Oh and they'd sing Oh and they'd sing

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Mixed & Mastered by Oliver Wagner at SoundTheoryLab, Taiwan.

Photo: Rambo Lai

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released November 23, 2019

Todd Warner Moore: Vocals, Acoustic Guitar,
Leah Hart: Background Vocals
Nicole Stella: Background Vocals
Michael Kentish: Background Vocals
Roberto Diana: Electric Guitar, Steel Guitar
William Stewart: Violin, Viola
Horacio Valdivieso: Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Steel Guitar
Daniel González: Cello
Issar Schulman: Double Bass

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