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three types of reading ambiguity - the wrens lyrics

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{verses 1-9: charles bissell.}

[verse 1]
mineral spring road
a house for 13 grand but more is probably owed
market isn’t fair
to row over row of red houses there

[verse 2]
children with chalk
trace squares around discarded lotto cards on the walk
someone’s losing bet
(a)fraid you’re not leaving old reading yet

[verse 3]
(for) years keeping track
of every slight, family slap & secret attack
more like rebel war
as sh-ll follows round to the second floor

[verse 4]
oceans rose up
a warning left in leaves left in eirinn go…[thumb-worn] cup(s)/
of death as stick-up man
bearing (your) ashes to ocean by coffee can

[verse 5]
(from) pain as you stood
to conal asking if your turning yellow’s for good
tests showed what they could
one thing, another, but neither’s good

[verse 6]
an uncle flew up
in time his own decline would have begun in the gut
[2008:] to end in hospitals
while i stood at reading with okkervil

[verse 7]
shillington’s hills
as alps we ran each week to fill an rx for pills
morphine’s drop is steep
one(‘s) lit in your hand while you nod asleep

[verse 8]
reading ran out
no exit from the sign for hope(, pa) to center of doubt(, pa)
“west, out west we’ll run”
(you) can’t run out death, he’s already come

[verse 9]
(our) farewell, packed the house
thinking how kim’s dog had sensed the cancer roiling right through your blouse
(a) banshee’s-coming sign
(that) the trap’s snapping shut and it’s really time

{kevin’s song break: kevin whelan}
{whelan’s lyrics aren’t printed, so these are all guesses.}
you said you wanted me
without a sound
you came around and laid down again
you wait for none
you ain’t the same {?}
you laid down the fall and break all the same{?}
when all the weight
the rain goes down
my own{?}
all the time{?}
that you could ask{?}

{verses 10-14: back to charles bissell.}

[verse 10]
[2003:] (in the) break room we cry
[1969:] for winter days of rain right after christmas, at (age) 5
to sleep safe in the back (seat)
(while) parents drove & smoked with the windows cracked

[verse 11]
[2003 on..:] (you) spring up from the sea
in dreams when you’re real young and like a sister to me*
(or) the dream (where) i threw a drink
and the one where you come as persephone
{note from charles: *thanks, will}

[verse 12]
in each i beg please mother, please
a reprise, a restart before my own rising seas
(you(‘ve)) raised a bailed man
a 50-ish kept boy in a touring van

[verse 13]
[2013:] screening the roughs
a thousand photos in, (a) million isn’t enough
not to capture this
to slow each frame down and/or fasten it

[verse 14]
into something lit up
looked at late
year-to-date
still in film i shoot the children grow up
[2003] won’t* play brides and grooms
because it ends with realtors walking empty rooms

- the wrens lyrics

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