Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence/Blue Tail Fly

from Witness by Jack O' The Clock

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Once in a while, O my lord, I wake up,
and I feel you standing over me
It's a terrible morning
It's a terrible morning
So many miles out to sea.

Once in a while, O my lord, I wake up,
and I feel you standing over me
Used to follow contrails,
used to watch the elms hushing,
blank through sense to nonsense,
nonsense back to blank:
It doesn't take any time at all.

Old face, wrung out like a washcloth
new face ring out like a bell.
They go by one by one by one by one

Once in a while, O my lord, I wake up,
and I realize that we're all alone.
And your boot's digging in,
and your boot's digging in
And your boot's digging in to my collarbone.

Once in a while, O my lord, I wake up,
and I realize that we're all alone.
and your blank covers nonsense
and your nonsense cuts the blank
It doesn't take any time at all.

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from Witness, released October 3, 2019

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JACK O' THE CLOCK "presents a fine lesson on what it means to write songs that are at once approachable and human while simultaneously being incredibly profound in terms of timbre, depth of emotion, and harmonic complexity," Progulator.

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