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Lightning Underneath

from UNDERNEATH by Isaac Fosl-van Wyke

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verse melodies are identical to Spirit Family Reunion’s “Come Our Way,” written by Nicolas Panken

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11. Lightning Underneath

all these constellation calls
all this reachin star to star
now that’s how far it feels:
really fuckin’ far
really fuckin’ far

your planetary eyes
i saw ’em rollin in your sleep
then i kissed those lids goodbye:
lightnin’ underneath
lightnin’ underneath

the angels’ dream of symmetry
it’s stretch’d thin between him & me
i wish the clouds could sift it into snow
but as above, my love: not so below

now summer just was here
it seems the sun has hardly past
the days melt into years
really fuckin’ fast
really fuckin’ fast

hurdling away (star bodies fade)
hardly time to hold (our bodies, babe)
but a person cannot pray
cursin’ in the cold void
cursin’ in the cold

so i’m flyin my kite with a skeleton key
and i’m trying to strike down my jealousy
i wish the clouds could sift it into snow
but as above, my love, not so below

i wanna fly right through your storm (before it’s over)
like river veins through a leaf (to be together)
skin on skin is warm
lightnin’ underneath
lightnin’ underneath

now we hold it up to sip (star bodies flow)
this river cupped in our hands (our bodies know)
there’s love in every drip
and we’re thirsty as the sand
thirsty as the sand

i could summon wings of steel
so easily, and cheap
and i’d never have to feel
the lightnin’ underneath
lightnin’ underneath

there’s stories bleedin’ in between
all the angel’s broken teeth
after wrestling with the dream
lightnin underneath
there’s lightnin underneath

the feathers & steel & whatever-else changed
when the angels’ dreams got rearranged
i wish the clouds could sift it all into snow
but as above, my love: not so below
as above, my love: not so below

from the fractals in yr mind (our bodies fade)
to the freckles on yr cheeks (star bodies, babe)
our precious little time
has lightnin underneath
lightnin underneath
lightnin underneath
lightnin underneath
lightnin underneath

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from UNDERNEATH, released October 1, 2021
words & music arranged by Isaac Fosl-van Wyke (verse melodies are identical to Spirit Family Reunion’s “Come Our Way,” written by Nicolas Panken; “thirsty as the sand” is from James Baldwin’s "Another Country")

guitar and vocals: Isaac Fosl-van Wyke
background vocals: Lacey Guthrie & Joan Shelley
bass synths & thunder : Lacey Guthrie
electric guitar: Nathan Salsburg

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Isaac Fosl-van Wyke Louisville, Kentucky

Isaac Fosl-van Wyke is a songwriter and puppeteer based out of Louisville, KY.

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