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One of a handful of songs of mine that I didn't write from the topic; I just picked up the 12-string and said, to quote Rosanne Rosanna Dana, "Uh! That just came out of ME?"

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gonna build a crop circle
in the shape of my own brain
gonna mystify the experts
they’ll ask
how’d he do that
with corn and grain

gonna reproduce each synapse
every neuron every fold
because I know
what I look like on the inside
man it’ll look beautiful in snow

I’m shoving something up the incline
a broken compass that I trust
I might be spinning my wheels
but ain’t I kicking up some dust

gonna build a crop circle
in the shape of my heart
but the pattern won’t be stable
ventricles twitch
acres of amber blood will pump

time will come time for harvest
they’ll take the tractor out to plow
but my heart it’ll jam up the machinery
they can’t mow it down

my brain won’t be so lucky
they’ll plow it under ‘cause they can
but in the spring they’ll find
a million little 12 strings
like ears of corn
each playing cowgirl in the sand

I’m shoving something up the incline
a mass of words and hair and rust
I might be spinning my wheels
but ain’t I kicking up some dust

gonna build a crop circle
random angular and sparse
you won’t discern it from the background
but it’ll look just like me

gonna build a crop circle
in the shape of my butt
I’ve always wanted
to moon the moon from montana
I’ll crack the hubble’s lens

I’m shoving something up the incline
a broken compass that I trust
I might be spinning my wheels
but ain’t I kicking up some dust

I’m shoving something up the incline
something fragile small and dark
I might be spinning my wheels
but ain’t I throwing off some sparks

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from Voices From The Right Brain, released December 15, 2004

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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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