THE GRIOTRECORD 09 / 16
TRACK 09 · THE RECORD
SHOES FULLOF WEATHER
Something crossed the threshold.
AFTER THE MIRROR / FIRST FOOTSTEPS
The frame was never the whole world.
Outside, even the weather has a memory.
Clean little man who loses it all
THE ILLUSTRATED STORY / 09
Three traces of a changing body.
OUT OF THE FRAME
The door opens. The body has not caught up.
WEATHER IN THE BONES
Rain, dust, and old places begin traveling together.
THE OTHER FOOTPRINT
Someone else may have learned how to walk.
THE RECORD / WORDS
Lyrics.
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Left the picture
Kept the feet
Rain
Dust
River
Just now
Brick went dark when the rain hit red
Flat-cap ghost at the gate just said
Clock in, kid, like the clock ain't broke
I nodded once and I let it choke
Silver bend in a low wet haze
River underneath minding its days
Dust on the lip off a long red road
Tin roof ticking out a two-step code
Pack on light, joke in the gut
Talking to pigeons like they still got smut
They spray a hero on the station wall
I tag a circle and I step through it all
Picture, picture, on the wall
Clean little man who loses it all
I blew a kiss and I missed the frame
Now the frame keeps yelling my name
Shoes full of weather, head full of tune!
Tune, tune!
Spinning the gutter like it's a ballroom!
Ballroom!
Just now, sound, show me the room!
Show me!
Left in the weather, right in the groove
Sun on the shoulder, rain on the sleeve
I ducked the painting so the painting could breathe!
Ha, this is living
Sidewalk logic, pocket rhythm
This is living
Drop that kick, yeah, I'm with him!
Lamp in the yard and a two-step grin
Somebody's uncle let the drummer in
Platform cold, twenty past ten
Missed the last one, got tight with the wind
Windows down on a brick-thick night
Horn from a bar, cup with no ice
Quiet swung first, quiet tapped out
Taught my feet a ruder way to shout
Not a hole in the pocket, hole in the plan
Curb got a king and the king brought a pan
Sit still, inherit the chair, they said
Chair never fitted, I gave it air
Picture, picture, pay your bill
I'm just the smudge that learned how to spill
Kill the fire, crack the door
Street got a hook that the wall never wore
Shoes full of weather, head full of tune!
Tune, tune!
Spinning the gutter like it's a ballroom!
Ballroom!
Just now, sound, show me the room!
Show me!
Left in the weather, right in the groove
Sun on the shoulder, rain on the sleeve
I ducked the painting so the painting could breathe!
Ha, this is living
Sidewalk logic, pocket rhythm
This is living
Drop that kick, yeah, I'm with him!
Three skies, one jacket, no lease
Wet wool, red dust, river grease
Stars off the curb, yeah, the old line's true
Stars look back like they already knew
Take the ache, make it clap, let it spin
Buy the whole night with a secondhand grin
Just now
Just now!
Sound
Sound!
Show me
Show me!
The room!
Left the wall
Left the wall!
Kept the walk
Kept the walk!
Not the broke
Not the broke!
Just off the clock!
Shoes full of weather, head full of tune!
Spinning the gutter like it's a ballroom!
Just now, sound, show me the room!
Left in the weather, right in the groove!
Sun on the shoulder! Rain on the sleeve!
I ducked the painting so the painting could breathe!
This is living!
Sidewalk logic! Pocket rhythm!
This is living!
Drop that kick, I'm still with him!
Just now
Sound
Show me
Picture stays
I don't
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