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Seeds & Snow

from Lineage by Farewell Friend

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Song by Tom Troyer.
(ASCAP)

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Grandpa moved to California
in a circle of wagons through the snow
through cold and bitter winter mornings
hoping ma would last the night
racing wolves through an icy pasture.
My old man would cross the desert
running things some people buy.
And he would stop and pass the night
with pretty girls in dusty towns.
I’ll meet a girl this time tomorrow.
Seeds will grow in a bitter pasture.
In the gypsum weed:
sweeter fruit than I will ever know
dreaming about the road and that quiet mountain range
and how can people change.
I don’t know
I don’t know
Aunty Caroline was a preacher.
she moved out west in a dust bowl daze.
She married a man for his guitar
and his finger pick’n ways
and the tricks the campfire would play.
They made a pact of constant sorrow,
laid those seeds beside the road.
They grew sweeter fruit than I will ever know
dreaming of yesterday,
thinking I could take a chance
as if the silent moon could dance.
I don’t know
I don’t know
I met a girl whose name was Progress
with delicate hands
made for work in a promised land.
But now I walk with the wolves
and I settle for second best
I hold the earth like an urn
and now I take all the hell I get.
Change is a silent masquerade
generations on display:
like a salt flat sky over sapphire fields
as we burry our sweeter yields.
Its how hurting and change can feel
and why starting is twice so real

credits

from Lineage, released June 11, 2018
Ben Jones drums. Evan Campfield bass. Mark Byerly electric guitar and lap steel. Piano Jack Gorham. Tom Troyer Acoustic and vocals. Mixed and Tom Troyer at Black Rabbit Audio.

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Farewell Friend North Carolina

Farewell Friend is a North Carolina based folk rock band. Farewell Friend’s music is first and foremost an exploration of poetry and narrative

Tom - singer, songwriter, guitar
Evan - upright bass, moog, rickenbacker
Caleb - violin and telecaster
Zac - drums
Featuring Kevan Chandler on harmonica and Galen Clark on mandolin.

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