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I Feel a List Comin' On

from Absurdity Under by Tim Koehn

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I feel a list comin' on—
With so much beauty come and gone.
Yet there's still so much that's still so strong.
I feel a list comin' on.

And if I don't record this,
There'll be other things I'll miss,
As magic and mundane as my lover's kiss.
If I don't record this.

So...I saw the moon and a street light,
Each with its own piece of night.
I got them all mixed up, moon was so bright.
I saw the moon and a street light.

I slept in my clean white bed—
Head at the foot and feet at the head.
It was so soft with my limbs all spread.
I slept in my clean white bed.

I was naked (I should've said)
In that clean, wide, white bed,
Like you come in at birth and go out when you're dead.
I was naked (I should've said).

I watched the world wake up one day:
Bird's first cry and sun's first ray.
It made me jump in the sea and the salt and the spray.
I watched the world wake up one day.

I felt the air and I felt the sun
Make a strange mix that made them one:
My first sure sign that autumn had come.
I felt the air and I felt the sun.

I saw wisps of clouds way up high:
Pale pink and blue with palms nearby.
I had waited long, so they heard me sigh.
I saw wisps of clouds way up high.

Then...that very same Moon that played with the street light
Came through a crack in my curtain the next night.
She, naked as I, and my bed still white,
Sank into pink as the world woke up bright.
I felt the fresh air and up came the sun—
And for then and for there, my list was well done.

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from Absurdity Under, released March 12, 2015
Tim Koehn: vocals, guitars, shaker
Eivind Lødemel: piano
Arrangement by Tim Koehn and Seth Johnson

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

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