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A Landscape of Ghosts

from A Landscape of Ghosts by Rob Siegel

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I write most songs from the concept, but there's something about the 12-string that short circuits that and connects straight to my non-linear right brain. This came out with the first line "Genevieve gets out of bed." And does what? Something vaguely French? Then I wrote "There's a unicorn somewhere that does not believe he exists." I thought... better.

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there’s a unicorn somewhere
that does not believe he exists
there’s a love trapped in stasis
hoping the memory persists
the thing that reverberates still
the bell in the church at the top of the hill
the pheasant that’s trapped under glass
hoping you can’t resist

there’s a book in a universe
I don’t inhabit at all
an arguable premise
statistically valid but small
the thing that’ll snap like a twig
the old man in robes and a wig
deciding between saints and sinners as if it’s his call

the saddest thing I've ever seen
through mortal man’s eyes
a butterfly covered in amber
still struggling to fly
the audacious sadness of hope
drawn from the rack and the rope
not knowing the logic of life is to lay down and die

there’s a landscape of ghosts
that inhabit this space I call me
the things that I didn’t do
didn’t become didn’t be
unable to laugh at the moon
stretched thin like a human balloon
extruded into the cold digital sunshine
rendered and lit
and prepared to be writ
in the book
of
your
life

cry
those
big
analog tears
do
it
now
while you’re still here
don’t be like the unicorn

there’s a unicorn somewhere
that does not believe it exists

credits

from A Landscape of Ghosts, released March 24, 2018
Guitar and vocal: Rob Siegel
Fiddle: Bronwyn Keith-Hynes
Fretless bass: Peter Tillotson
Piano: Rudy Borkowski
Drums: Doug Kwartler (toms), Rob Siegel (kit at end)

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Rob Siegel Boston, Massachusetts

Rob Siegel is well-known in Boston folk music circles as an innovative songwriter who draws from his idyllic yet stressed- out middle-class suburban existence and produces memorable, intelligent, well-crafted songs.

His first new CD in 14 years, "A Landscape of Ghosts," will be out in April, with a CD release show at Club Passim on Monday April 30th. ... more

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