Joy Mills - "Break and Bend"

from Garth Stein's "A Sudden Light" by The Bushwick Book Club Seattle

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Certain moments never leave us
Certain hunger never ceases
And you reach out like the branches
Seems to hold you in crooked arms
And where the wind blows, where do we go?

All these stories, deep as marrow
I struck a match, backlit your shadow
I've got no choice now but to listen
The bond of memory, open season
Tell me now do we break and bend
Tell me how the story ends

I never did say much to you
I never did say much at all
Tell it to me now, break it to me now
Silence is not that golden thing

Found a message, secret passage
Hands through the cobwebs
This hidden cabin
And what the rain gives, fair and furtive

Houses haunted by trees and spirits
As though we're wanted by ghosts who hear us

Tell me now do we break and bend
Tell me how through the rain and wind
Tell me how the story ends

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from Garth Stein's "A Sudden Light", released September 30, 2014
written by Joy Mills

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The Bushwick Book Club Seattle Seattle, Washington

The Bushwick Book Club is not your run of the mill book club. When we read books, we also want to write songs about them. And when we write songs, we like to perform them for an audience. So we book shows, and invite an audience to read with us!

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