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Easy Right Hand

from Voices From The Right Brain by Rob Siegel

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I wrote this for singer/songwriter Michael Troy, who had one of the best right hands in the business, during his second bout with cancer.

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the snow never falls
like they say on TV
six to eight inches in the suburbs
I’ll stick my head out the window
if it comes back white they’re right
but you can’t predict snow
with just words

I read the entrails of a goat once
but I could not stand the smell
I’ve got bumps on my own head
that I can’t tell
I had my palm read once
but I prefer it blue
I think it’s what I do

let me find my easy right hand
let me play one more song with the band
just grant this one request
let me learn what I do best
let me find my easy right hand

the snow came in the window
and blanketed the bed
I didn’t have the heart
to grab a shovel
so I turned the mattress over
and pretended I was dead
some things just aren’t worth the trouble

Robert Johnson at the crossroads
Robert Frost’s untaken road
Robert Hunter’s box of rain
eyeball to the grindstone
and jawbone on the ground
sniffing like a hound

trying to find my easy right hand
let me play one more song with the band
just grant this one request
let me learn what I do best
let me find my easy right hand

the snow was always deep
when I was a kid
but now the trees are taller
so cut me down cut me open
you’ll see my growth rings
is that why these dreams seem smaller

I’ve got a seat now at the table
but I don’t like what they serve
I juggle broken glass to find the nerve
something scary’s at the window
so I guess I’ll change my tune
and shovel snow off the moon

with my easy right hand
let me play one more song with the band
just grant this one request
let me learn what I do best
let me find my easy right hand

I made a jigsaw puzzle
From a picture of myself
the pieces on the edge were recollections
I pushed one piece in ‘till I broke
I could not make me fit
I wish these things would come with directions

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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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