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Boy Sings In Church

by Reuben David Knights

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1.
Roses of Gratitude 05:59
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When the water meets your lungs Suffer without misery The roses of your gratitude Distant sounds of revelry Grit your teeth and submit to fate All these Birds with death wishes Eyes opened by doing what you do What do you put in your false pocket? A place to put synthetic self? Produce from it a word unweighted With the burden of being something else In a state of casting down Eyes from skies where doubts abound The inklings of some heresy False but with sincerity All that dross collects as one Mirrored face, in a perfect form Eyes opened by doing what was done What do you hear from your false prophet A distant thought that you once had Produce from it the proof you needed That There must be something real to doubt When the water meets your lungs
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Reversing Course 05:39
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A shifting chance. To see it once. Fusicia fanned out Across the clouds Latched upon it beaming down In mass, too many. Perhaps a little more Next time, next time, set a line before Reversing course The Preakness or the triple crown Lapped and hoofed and shot behind A mint julep in a shaking hand Slide down, cast their course Fixated on the hills and harrow Perched on a seat too narrow Beat the brunch on equestrian marrow Reversing course The Preakness or the triple crown Lapped and hoofed and shot behind A mint julep in a shaking hand Slide down, cast their course Fixated on the hills and harrow Perched on a seat too narrow Beat the brunch on equestrian marrow
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Samson’s Riddle 06:32
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That’s no hill for a high stepper like me Said face to face with a soulless scream Take the form of a rabid king to rule his things Not fit to eat or to be near when with child From your perch up at peels place by shoreditch way Eagle on the wharf, y’looked o’or the brickman The constable on cranberry, sways in the green tide Right as right can be while with wrongness coincide You’ve so much to say now, by way of the Lothian Gray So much for Falconer, lost lonely spire With a touch of great, 11th to me now Schotland feels like a real place somehow Vine dries from the years worth of wandering He can humbly chuckle with joy So fragile but final from this end Held firm in its place by a covenant What’s sweeter than honey? Many times over and building For faith and the Spirit They govern here Noise jolts and shuddering Feel the weight of your talisman Fox tied by the tail to another Torch set between the two for the taking Out of the eater is a thing for eating Out of the strong something that’s sweet Now with eyes though gouged out “Vengeance is mine” and the pillars fall down “The jawbone of a mule in his hand Heaps upon heaps” and a thousand men Laid in Manoahs mausoleum 20 long years did he rightly judged them
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My Need 04:20
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My need for you is fading Unseen eves, for too long heavy laden Felt you strong and at my heels a clawing Made resolve something worth describing At that time there were kings among us Prince of page, stewards of the verse Chief among them was a man we knew all Too well Terrified of what would come if we dare spend some time in sober mind with him, but I won’t relent My need for you is fading There’s a stranger in myself that has been waiting Once was called, can now not re-emerge here To return, it’s just a melody revolved here As of now, been two bouts of good times That’d be trading for a questionable lifetime Still unsure of footing and desires Reason for the seated underground The manifold and triple crown the fire! And I won’t relent. Fire! And i won’t relent Fire, and I won’t relent. Fire, and you’re so RELENTLESS AND PURE IN YOUR MODE OF CONNECTION FAULTLESS IN THE END CANT LAY BLAME ON A SUBSTANCE: faultless can’t lay blame at the feet of a substance
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Haunt of Iris 07:13
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And the iron did swim Take it up to thee Thence every man a beam It was a borrowed axe The soundtrack to a simple scene Tip along the borderlines Not concerned with what’s not mine Oh haunt of iris Oh sovereign throne I’m not my own See you through your window there Enthralling, countenance so fair Sip the sunsets liquid, come down here The sun has beat you Down and stole another day Fill your cup from fount of words Drink and hope to never age Pushing through your screen door to study Spread like maps, across birds eye maple I was pulled into your trap then And I will ask again and again These are all such ancient things We broke bread and we rested in the glen I drew you in You rose up and you melted in the wind, became the end Oh haunt of iris. Oh sovereign throne I’m not my own You made a list just to forget, these are all such ancient things Give up your tired yearnings And retire all your dreams Like a penny in the ice chest you’re just copper in the stream
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Colors 06:44
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Rain bed. All that spent breath laying low Rain bed. Take one last look as you go Hangmen I caught a little bit of what was coming through Lazily it ribboned and burrowed Oh the frayed rope Coast and coated round and through us Rain bed Rounded off the hardened edges Streams of red and rivers ebbing Lapped and foaming on the jetty Only dripping now in light hues Frost and the due have thinned and burned off Whole pallets of color, scored and all fused Making all these things visible Incarnate and garnet, tearing of garments Became yourself a part of Your creation Never without a body, we can see the hidden things We are the body Forked tongue devil brings it up himself 91st of David, keep Your feet from the stone Ultimate decay will never touch Him Or us for that matter We are the body Head of this cosmic body Drain it all The wash the sheet the canvas bare There once were vibrant colors there
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Rocky Way 04:34
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It’s that panicked walk in early spring Down the cool and rocky way The reverend must have read my mail today I’ve got that comfortable aching Sunday heart Get myself dragged back and cleaned up for another cold start I need you like a picture needs the certain frame Like a fish out of the water else I’ll go insane The bluebird has its melody that’s all his own You’re the notes to all my favorite songs now don’t you know that the wheel is spinning faster and I’m trying to hold on But it’s too much like a farewell and I just can’t write that song Rolling like a onyx wave in front of me Down a red road to a red house to a red eternity The waking and the shifting is just the gypsum floor Power down the powdered whigs cause we’re preparing for an encore It’s that self assuring rounding of the bend See now that’s just how it always hits me, Was it like that for you then? Much more likely to have been a different day Only good that we could mirror in the way the wheel Was spinning faster and we were trying to hold on But it was too much like farewell and we just couldn’t write that song It’s one not made for singing not devised for ill intent Too much like so long, and on and on it went
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Ps. 91 06:14
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When the day is much too long And the weathers all worn out It ends the same the same way it always ends Couldn't stop telling you I wouldn’t stop if I could choose to Violent and soaring in their hues The colors change themselves for you All the creatures sounding bell A surge of grace, a crashing of the swell When the pestilence was at hand I was underneath your wing his head was underneath her heel Crushing him with the word. All that’s laid beneath the waves and all the sea can give back It lends the same thing the same thing to you my friend. All you’re compelled to do, it ushers in a shifting change of view. And accent pitched and turning down a chance for something pounded in the ground All the creatures sounding bell A surge of grace a crashing is the swell When the the pestilence was at hand I was underneath your wing His head was underneath her heel, crushing him With the word the word the word When the day is much too long and all the weathers worn out It ends the same way the same way it always ends Couldn’t stop telling you I wouldn’t stop if I could choose to And accent pitched and turning down A surge of grace a crashing is the swell When the pestilence is at hand.
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Foot Race 04:39
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The places you go when your eyes close They aren’t for me A house among the tall grass or on a bullet train I know not where you go to, don’t mind that it’s far from me Burrowed beneath the steel plates or under a crimson leaf Did I not send you right there? Did I not ask you if that’s right? Did I did you did we just both forget it I don’t know your street but we’ve been on it When you multiplied your sense of ownership She cut right through the side yard, you’re at the door. Down the stairs you cried as we lowered you in your chair. We thought you had misspoken when you said your leg was broken. But we believed you when you didn’t walk for days. And that’s the thing about this footrace. A detailed line, offshoot of a detour in the first place Off where only you can be. I’ll be halfway there, call back and you won’t answer me. As soon as it was, just as soon it was not. You closed your eyes to go there but you had forgotten. The grass cut short and tracks cut even before I let you walk for a while and tried to ignore them The captivating colours, extraordinary in their depth and hue All of them just pleading out for you And that’s the thing about this footrace. A detailed line, offshoot of a detour in the first place Off where only you can be. I’ll be halfway there, call back and you won’t answer me.
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Myriad Clarion 08:30
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Hymns, like rain or bells, fell on you. They work their way and glisten Pull the lace strands back and round through Assuredly you listen Stranded in position Myriad clarion belting heavenward Your days of flesh have ended Spirit holy, passing over Oh death your sting is no more You soft bite a gentle reminder of the first ones failing Waterway evangelista Your prospects look like mud Once the jewel of Appalachia Now a name that all men Say they’ve never heard of Myriad clarion belting heavenward Days of flesh have ended Spirit holy passing over Lift me from the valley Calamity remove from me As I sip now upon the wines of (yesterdays) realized gains and new visions Seated across from you upon the shoulders Of a victory on the tree Yet not I, but through three in me. Indicted and unfit to be a witness to you after all of this Such a feat just be used by Him Lacking and morose though I be Howling from the dirt under the feet Flicker of a faint pastoral Reference to a son of sons and man of men Seated across from you upon the shoulders Of a victory on the tree Yet not I, but through three in me. Hymns, like rain or bells, fell on you. They work their way and glisten Spirit holy passing over Lift me from the valley Calamity remove from me As I sip now upon the wines of (yesterdays) realised gains and new visions

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The companion to Boy Sings in Yard. Albums separated by the birth of a son. Read the lyrics as you listen. I recorded both albums at home, and wrote them over the course of a few years.

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released August 22, 2023

Written, arranged, performed and recorded/mixed by myself. Mastered at The Jam Room. Art by Shane Sanders. Advice incalculable from Aaron Burke, in the form of track listing, some song titles, and general helpfulness for which I’m grateful.

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