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Autumn on the Skin

from Absurdity Under by Tim Koehn

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Originally performed by Fall Hollow

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For at least a second each day,
and then minutes at night,
familiar ghost leaves its shell--forever lost for a spell.
And the horror grows because
madness dances 'round,
face features melting blank into a cellar dark and dank.

But then his takes mine to some forest glen
where the turning grass is the hair of God
and the spruce is so black.
And up from the grass, my name is scrawled
in the arms of fallen branches.

That spinning-headed girl
who thinks her arms are stone: "She cries when I hold her,
she cries when I hold her.
And what makes her eyelids fall
makes mine flood each time--
it's his groping hands that crawl over bodies not mine."

But the woman who's learning to lose her twins--
in her so strong eye there lives the mirror of God
(and so precious were those twins).
"But she's a great mom (I never had one),
and she's melting my hands..."

Everyday, autumn on the skin
Everyday, spring within
Everyday, autumn on the outside
And yet still within,
new robins come and sing again.

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from Absurdity Under, released March 12, 2015
Tim Koehn: vocals, guitars, percussion, glockenspiel
Eivind Lødemel: piano
Ross Bradley: trumpet

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Tim Koehn Nicosia, Cyprus

Tim Koehn, currently based in Cyprus, teaches for a living but writes and makes music any chance he gets.

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