Holy

from Satellites by Sea Couch

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I'm on the path, I'm on my own
Old Kerouac's carving in a stone
I'm content, but it's well-known
that men love byways
like rights and wrongs,
joys and woes,
citadels,
embroidered clothes -
it's only holy,
it ain't holy
repetition.

Then vines pile up and just add on,
Old Kerouac's dead and gone.
I think some nights,
"It must be premonition,
and to love or hate,
reap or sow,
turn up late
or never show -
it's only holy,
it ain't holy,
calculation."

So I'm up at 5, the sun's still down -
the paper boy ain't come around.
It's winter,
but soon it may be spring.
Gets cold, gets hot,
I'm up, I'm down,
stay here and rot,
pack up, leave town -
it's only holy,
it ain't holy
confusion.

Is that all there is, oh lord above?
Give me a sign, I've had enough,
and then there's silence
and a stand with my guitar.
Well, to be held still by the world,
to ebb and flow (it all unfurls) -
well that's the holy,
it ain't holy
deception.

To make up the words as we go,
to contemplate and never know,
well that's the holy,
it ain't holy
resolution.

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from Satellites, released November 4, 2011
Amanda Dorsey - resonator mandolin & vocals, Dan Dorsey - guitar & vocals, Geff Stewart - fiddle & vocals, Jason Reed - percussion & vocals, Fletcher Smith - bass

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Sea Couch Baltimore, Maryland

Sea Couch is an acoustic folk duo from Baltimore consisting of husband and wife, Dan and Amanda Dorsey. They write and play melancholic folk songs focusing on stark instrumentation and soulful lyrics / harmonies. Their catalog of songs have been called “pretty and rustic,” “poignant and humorous,” and “inspiring without being sentimental,” by the Baltimore City Paper and the Shatterered Wig Press ... more

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