In Search of a New Myth

by Sommer Harris

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1.
Lighthouse 02:36
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I’m so real, girl I’m so real And I’ll rise up another layer Every time they seem to peel it down Can't you feel this pearl Can't you feel? It will wise up another prayer And a rhyme so that you never drown Time to swim now And to dive And though that deep is hairy Dark and scary It will bring you life If our orbits don’t align Then I will hold you deep within my heart Like chemicals that bind All I mean to say Is that I carry you with me most every day And I know you You wanna see All of our friends around a fire With the gumption and the grace to be free And all in time we will come around And it will seem like we are seventeen- But maybe not so many ups and downs Time to swim now And to dive And though that deep is hairy Dark and scary It will bring you life If our orbits don’t align Then I will hold you deep within my heart Like chemicals that bind All I mean to say Is that I carry you with me most every day Lonely lighthouse on the land She spins in circles shining out her light And waiting to extend a friend a hand There’s not a sailor who doesn't spy That glowing goodness in your solar system Darling you don’t even have to try Promise me, trust the tide when it goes It will return to you, a bringing new life Poetry and prose And if the moon falls from the sky Then we can fish it out from running waters Hang it up to dry All you need to know Is I’ll return to you no matter where I go
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Radical Gratitude 04:19
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The moment I laid eyes on you Textbook closed, we’re in tune And I could hardly leave the room When your boombox starts to boom We could laugh the night away Blow off class the following day Remember how to disobey Darling, do you recall all that it saved? Life was lonely, long and loud Drowning in the academy and in the crowd We laced re-membering into dance Heart showed up and showed us a fighting chance Radical gratitude down from our boots Gave rise to love infused fruits I’ll stick through stems and leaves and shoots To search for those seeds of truth And with the shame we’d cast aside Our loneliness no longer wanted to hide You held me in silence and I cried and cried Until this heart was open wide Radical gratitude down from our boots Gave rise to love infused fruits I’ll stick through stems and leaves and shoots To search for those seeds of truth Altough you stole my bottle of wine You showed me Shaka’s battle design You spoke of Hathor and of cattle, divine Pointed out how stars align Radical gratitude down from our boots Gave rise to love infused fruits I’ll stick through stems and leaves and shoots To search for those seeds of truth Then it was time to let you go The ancestors came and told us so We’ll reunite with tales in tow We’ll never die- I know you know Radical gratitude down from our boots Gave rise to love infused fruits I’ll stick through stems and leaves and shoots To search for those seeds of truth
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Statues 03:29
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I stepped up in autumn When everything glows Discovered my first fear Confronted my foes And all of that dancing Too brilliant to see I sliced up my knuckle And fled from the scene Now see us in winter With skeleton trees Those wonderful mornings Brought me to my knees And all of the sadness That weighed my heart down Was suddenly heavy So I let it drown Now come round the springtime With shakes in my bones and all of this lightness That used to be stone But where are the statues That I used to see They’ve all come to life and The last one was me But how do you tell those Who have everything? How do I show them The rite of this spring? I guess I could sing I stepped down in Summer To bathe in the streams The water was cool and cold And all of my dreams Had burst at the seams Again in the autumn I open a door To unleash my nature To run toward the roar
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Run Toward the Roar 04:19
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And when the lion roars my dear Do you fall in line with forces of fear? Falling prey to the pride lurking near Or will you go through, heed the call that you hear? Visions of elders Dreams of youth Carry paradise, paradox, and truth In my old mind Your wails have no use A lyre won’t sing a stone into a spruce And old Aletheia, she cannot fail Though holy terror has you panicked and pale ‘Isms’ that promise salvation are stale All this revealing is wind in a sail Visions of elders Dreams of youth Carry paradise, paradox, and truth In my old mind Your wails have no use A lyre won’t sing a stone into a spruce This sacred prototype holds my mind There’s nothing new, nothing elsewhere to find I once shot you down, when your love, it reminded me: Perhaps I could risk to fail to feel ties that bind Visions of elders Dreams of youth Carry paradise, paradox, and truth In my old mind Your wails have no use A lyre won’t sing a stone into a spruce
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Call Me 02:48
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Call me anytime you’ve got a ghost And I’ll know to hold your heart close To my own How I never thought that you’d pick up the phone But you laughed through the wires said girl you’re not alone So call me anytime you feel More feelings than you’ve felt in years And need someone to hear your tears and boasts Your fears and hopes And all this change we couldn’t buy or sell But time will tell What grows when you are wishing well The strange arrangements Of tapestries and past agreements Growing loves And glowing grievances Call me anytime you wanna know How I care for you And how you help me grow Often reason rhymes with the Path of ease and pleasantries In every season times And all this change we couldn’t buy or sell But time will tell What grows when you are wishing well The strange arrangements Of tapestries and past agreements Growing loves And glowing grievances Call me anytime you’ve got a ghost And I’ll know to hold your heart close
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Spinner 03:50
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The spinner’s inflection A thousand reflections Constitute the truth But all that indention And all of this tension Make me wing from root Tonight the skylark is nestled by the bear This night her honey was wrestled, unaware These timeless days of every kind Build monoliths within my mind Without paying due attention to What I’m supposed to do Set out into that restless night Find playmates who reflect the light Together we Find ecstasy My body resonates rightly with the sound Of all the grandmothers voices underground Saying there’s a song he cannot break A sturdiness he cannot shake Inside of you I've seen it, too I know you're afraid But just keep integrating Breathing, too It’s coming on fast But we don't have to master Something new Cause we’ve been through the fall before In the past And this is not the first regress Nor the last Saying there’s a beat, a silent gun A rhythm that he can’t outrun Its brave and true Its violent too Early in the journey As a diamond in the rough My own emerges clearly As I cut away the fluff So cast your night eyes on the green-garmented earth She stirs her pot as dog tears up her lifetime’s worth But great grandmother doesn’t budge The youngins need her mending love She’s seen it all She knows the fall
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Candy Dream 03:08
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The candy in the cart is overflowing now A gift of no borders I ran away from all the stones you’re throwing how I've learned to love order And how I ran Now I give thanks I can And everyday you find another job to do Hey Sisyphus! I’m blue I spun around a tryin’ to place the blame about But I simply miss you And how we grow Up from the undertow And when the lines were cut communication reigned Although my voice was strained The ground I found below me- I began to sing I held both queen and king Now land, increase I've felt something release The lyre keeps a spinning where the statues sit There is no shame in shit So shall we dance the night away in reveille Before I have to split? We’ll walk, walk, walk, walk Walk, walk, walk, walk We’ll walk, walk, walk, Walk I’ll walk, walk, walk, walk I’ll walk, walk, walk To the shore Yes, I’ve been here before

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Recorded on my phone behind our local grocery store. Any proceeds will go to a 'proper' recording session...

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released January 15, 2017

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