The View Between Villages

(album: Stick Season - 2022)

Air in my lungs
'Till the road begins

As the last of the bugs
Leave their homes again

And I'm splitting the road down the middle
For a minute the world seems so simple

Feel the rush of my blood
I'm seventeen again

I am not scared of death
I've got dreams again

It's just me and the curve of the valley
There is meaning on earth, I am happy

Oh
Oh

Past Alger Brook Road
I'm over the bridge
A minute from home but I feel so far from it

The death of my dog
The stretch of my skin
It's all washing over me
I'm angry again

The things that I lost here
The people I knew
They got me surrounded
For a mile or two

The cars in reverse
I'm gripping the wheel
I'm back between villages
And everything's still