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What It Means To Be Gone

from Homage To Catalonia by Jim Powell

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What does it mean to be out on the road
With the wind at your back and a heavy load?
The mountains before you and the sea behind.
No clouds in the sky - nowhere to unwind.
The tangle of tales that have formed in your head
Lull you to sleep and then fill up your bed
With feverish dreams that wake up the ghost,
Hungry and lusting for the opposite coast.

I don’t know what it means to be forgiven
To sense the sun’s not going down
On a futile form of inspiration
I don’t know what it means to be gone

The sounds of a storm signal signs of relief.
The doves in the trees mourning songs full of grief.
A footfall is heard but the wind whips the sound
Like the smoke of a fire burning there on the ground.
All of the warmth lost where the sky has been torn,
A hole where the stars look so lonely and worn.
And the branches of trees claw the cold winter sky,
The seasons confused and the ghost starts to cry.

Cry for the time lost to walking the road,
With a ghost on your back and a reason to goad
The tales. Full of anger, the eyes of regret
Blinded to reason, and the weeping begets
A river that flows to the valley below.
A season of flood fills a vessel of woe.
What does it mean to drink deep from that glass?
What does it mean for a lifetime to pass?

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from Homage To Catalonia, released November 3, 2023

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Jim Powell Boulder Creek, California

I am a songwriter & guitarist working out of my home studio in beautiful Boulder Creek, California. My arrangements use a mix of voice, acoustic and electric guitars, bass and drums, along with the occasional mandolin, bouzouki, or keyboard part.

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