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lyrics

never*

I
He sleeps in the gutter
And he only walks at night
And though he talks with a stutter
A million dreams he can recite

And he calls to the widows
To the orphans
And the slaves
To the poor men stacking pennies
On the rich men’s gilded graves

But you must
Never
Speak
His
Name

II
Two front teeth like crooked tombstones
In the wild, weepin’ wind
His icy fingers crack the wishbone
And you can not comprehend

When he offers you twelve fiddles
And he takes from you ten dimes
And he speaks to you in riddle
And he talks to you in rhyme


But you must
Never
Speak
His
Name

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OHs! AHs!
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III
His legs like broken matchsticks
And his eyes, so blue and fair
He got a nine pound bag of Tophet tricks
And raindrops in his hair

He’s a legend among the liars!
To the honest, he’s a king
With every child that he sires,
He carves a notch into his ring

You may meet him in the Springtime
In the Summer or the Fall
And you may see him come this Winter
But his songs, you won’t recall

For he sing unto the valley
And he sings unto the hill
In some dirty, vacant alley,
I know he’s sleeping still

credits

from eleven letters from a window, released April 25, 2021
M. Snow: harpiano, tape loop, Money, Wood, Fire, vox (strumming a piano’s harp, sampled wolf howls, 10 dimes and a bowl, stick, Zippo lighter)
Doug Davis: accordion, broken accordion bellow wheeze, snare drum, log drum, guiro, piano harp, pipe organ, reed organ, opera vocals
Susan Terry: viola
Mike Teague: tuba
Justin Macagna: clarinet

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Mitchell Snow Toronto, Ontario

Singer/ songwriter from Mocksville (and Winston-Salem) North Carolina, currently living in Toronto Canada

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