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Close to Home

from Book of Skies by Kevin Brown

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The day that you left me I cleaned out the fridge
I got down on my knees, scouring the edge of the
Shelf where the carton of cream had expired;
The sweet milk of plenty a bit soured inside.
“I’m lonely, I’m lonely,” said the boy I once knew
He was so helpless in love with you.
Ah, but love is the walls and the roofs we have known.
He was close to the truth. But I am close to home.

“Surprise me,” you said to your African town
With its razor-wire walls and its trash-covered ground.
The travelogues all say there’d be no reason to stay here.
So you stayed for a season.
And you grew like the grasslands that swept towards the sea.
You swayed to the breath of a curious breeze
Beholden to sorrows and mercies untold
You are so close to heaven. I am so close to home.
There’s a cold stack of nothing filling my empty woodshed.
There’s an absence of you in the cold on your side of the bed.

You draw the brown faces inside your blue eyes
I draw in the pages of my book of skies
I wrestle with meaning and meter and rhyme
They always come out in 3/4 time.
And we waltz ‘cross the crest of our Christmas card years
We waltz across our separate hemispheres
Folded together like fingers, we are so
Close to believing we are so close to home.
I do believe we are close to home.

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from Book of Skies, released June 22, 2015
Kevin Brown: acoustic, electric and 12-string guitars, keyboard, vocals
Eugene Jablonsky: bass
Dru Heller: drums

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Kevin Brown Spokane, Washington

Singer-songwriter Kevin Brown makes his home in rural Northeastern Washington state, not too far from the farms where two sets of great-grandparents settled a century ago. The rich natural surroundings serve as a metaphor for exploring the landscapes of the heart and soul -- faith, family, love, the passage of time, and the interwoven fabric of earth and humanity. ... more

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