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inspired in part by the Inupiaq (Native Alaskan) epic of Kiviuq, which I learned about in Kira Van Deusen's oral history, "Kiviuq: An Inuit Hero and His Siberian Cousins."
lyrics
3. Coming Of Age
i don’t know my heart from a hole in the ground.
said that i was in love, but i was bluffin’.
but thin on the wind what’s that faint beating sound?
i asked the old man, he said nothin’. he said:
“deep in a hole in the ground,
a boy just like you, well his body was found.
you’re coming of age in a strange kinda town.”
i don’t know my mind from a canyon in the sea
i thought that i did in my twenties
you ask the old man how much he threw away:
if you asked him today, he’d say plenty.
he’d say: “deep in a canyon in the sea,
new york city trash from the last two centuries.
now you’re coming of age in the land of the free.”
free to join the army, or the office, or the jail:
choose your industrial complex.
you said that you read of some other kind of trail,
but you ask’d the old man, he said nonsense.
he said: “deep in a Congolese mine,
i found the one missing piece to your cell phone’s design.
you’re coming of age in a strange kinda time.”
the ocean will rise and she’ll swallow up the land.
that won’t be a time for the keepin’.
stare at your screen all night long while you can.
you could ask the old man, but he’s sleepin.
he’s sleeping deep in a hole in the ice.
where the speed of your getaway car won’t suffice.
you’re coming of age at a mighty high price
it was not the blue of the sky or the sea,
it was blue as the tears that you’re cryin:
that was the bird that flew down next to me.
i tried to show the old man, but he’s dyin.
now deep in the marrow of your bones
there lives a liquid old soul and she knows this is home.
you’re coming of age, & maybe
tremblin with rage, on some
neon-lit stage, but you sure ain’t alone.
na cuz i found my heart in a hole in the ground.
it could have been a canyon or a quarry.
i miss the old man now that he ain’t around.
he came in a dream and said sorry. he said:
“deep in a hole in the sky,
i can finally see you through a new kind of eye.
now ain’t no one of age
in our strange kind of cage,
and it’s definitely too late,
but not too late to try.”
credits
from UNDERNEATH,
released October 1, 2021
words and music arranged by Isaac Fosl-van Wyke
guitar and vocals: Isaac Fosl-van Wyke
background vocals: Lacey Guthrie & Joan Shelley
drums: Rafael Freitas
upright bass: Lucille Ann
trumpet: Charlie Walsh
fender rhodes: Isaac Fosl-van Wyke
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