Grain in the Larder I George Wallace & Electronic Friends

Описание: GRAIN IN THE LARDER (3:45)
They have business of their own and do not bother
with the business of others, a pace that is slow
in that there is no hurry, a manner that circles in
on its own sweet self, a manner that does not need
to materialize or capitalize. and the people look
you straight in the eye and don't look away,
and young men in love with the neighborhood
brew, and young women in love with the way
their clothes hang on their practical bodies,
and their hair falling rich in the doorways
and marketplaces, and they are easy with
each other, the bankers and button makers,
easy with each other, the landlord and the
roustabout, the river and the river rock,
stride confidently across poor cobblestones,
this old town, it is all shoulder to shoulder
and the plague can’t kill you or the passage
of time, and oppression hasn't killed them yet,
from abroad or from within, an old town, an old
people, business of their own and no one to
bother them about it, and their shoulders are
round like seven hills, and their faces, long,
furrowed and fruitful, and their streets are laid
out in their custom and manner, they who have
witnessed the domestication of horse and olive,
grape and goat and most men, most men, how
dark and unmoved and purposeful their gaze,
how indigenous all this, this old town, skip
millennia without apology or disobedience,
without possession or being possessed, no
ghosts in the attic, no secrets in the cabinet,
how optimistic their gait, and the multitude
of children tumbling along easily, easily,
grain in the larder, grain in the larder
and there is no distance between the steep
old streets of this old town and the arteries
of heaven, how dark and innocent, how purposeful
and unmoved, and the neighborhood brandy
and the young women in love with the way
their hair falls rich and full in doorways
and marketplaces, grain in the larder, grain
in the larder, no distance between the steep
old streets and the arteries of heaven

From ALL FALL DOWN, fifth album of songs with lyrics from poems by George Wallace, brought to musical life with AI/Digital assistance Feb 26.

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