Centuries

from Perennials by Emergence Collective

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“Centuries” locates the current moment, the vastness and the particulars, a landscape of industry and loneliness, of erosion and longing.

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Gray flat surface spreading endless miles
Was laid down by ghosts
Who never could have imagined
What the world would become
Pour a century on a landscape
Watch it harden into highway
Watch it harden into highway

Broken mother sits alone at home
She lights a cigarette
Forgetting that she just wants
Somebody to call her
And somewhere there’s a satellite
Somebody built
And rocketed to outer space

Empty city they once built up to the heavens
All the people left
And the buildings turned to ashes
And the moss grows wild
Pour a century on a landscape
Watch the grass cover the highway
Watch the grass cover the highway

Gray ash father, broken mother, empty brother
Where’d you go?
When did you leave me?
I want to tell you that I find your face in strangers
Hear your voice in dark cafes
Infinite centuries made my body
Then one moment comes and
Takes my breath away

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from Perennials, track released April 5, 2023
“Centuries”
Written by Matthew Dean Marsh

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