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Wolf River

from EXILE (digital) by Steven Gray

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WOLF RIVER


The singer jumped into the river,
why I’ll never know,
he wasn’t drinking, it was night,
the current moving slow

but a boat was going by.
A wavelength pulled him under
while a roadie rescued his
guitar. It makes you wonder

about the fates, the roadie turned
around the singer gone,
the water washed away his voice,
he won’t be here again.

A “mystery” person, he inherited
the heart and throat
of his father who could sing
and never missed a note.

He wrote the songs I used to listen
to, they hit me close
to home in California, he was
taken by an overdose.

I should have known that music won’t
protect you from the facts
of life, in fact your guard is down
when you are too relaxed.

In this condition known as life
on earth the famous fall
as often as the rest of us,
there is a wailing wall

in every town and some of us
don’t want to stick around.
It isn’t easy but a singer
with his feet on the ground

would not be swept away. A few days
later he was found,
tangled in some branches and
he didn’t make a sound.

It makes you think, I’ll pour a drink
in honor of his story
and maybe it will insulate me
from the transitory.

(break)

There’s a young man in the river,
he went there with a song,
thinking it would float him like a
boat, but he was wrong.

A river has a permanence,
the singers come and go,
I thought I heard a song on the wind,
the song of a lost soul.

credits

from EXILE (digital), released September 9, 2022
guitar & vocals: SG
flute: Erin Vivero

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Steven Gray Connecticut

Steven Gray lived in San Francisco since before there were computers and people would communicate by sending smoke signals with their cigarettes. He’s a writer & musician whose recordings have been episodic. He read his work all over town for years, but using 2020 vision he moved to the coastline of Connecticut where he stares at the fire. His email:
telepoetic77@hotmail.com (don't use this site)
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