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from A Landscape of Ghosts by Rob Siegel

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When I die, if I can only be known for one song, it would be this one.

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the father hunter fumbles
in the neolithic dawn
searching for his stone knife
and his dog-eared Iron John
to slay the scary monsters
and appease his angry god
takes a venti skinny latte
spare the child spoil the rod

danger Will Robinson
my alarm clock blindly shrieks
as it jolts me from one nightmare
to the other in the street
the red meat on the table
from the dead beast in the hall
sometimes I wonder if I’m here at all

as the Tweedle Beetles battle
over butter over guns
the screeching clowns of virtue
stoke their vengeance seeking Huns
would you have the wherewithal
to flee the breaking wave
to seek the elevation
or just crawl back in your cave

I’ll slay the killer rabbit
with my laser pointer then
dispatch the dogs of darkness
dad you got another ten
a cash machine a beauty queen
a slipper at the ball
sometimes I wonder if I’m here at all

would you leave your lover
in the middle of her sighs
would you dare to look
a wild gift horse in the eyes
a postcard from a hurricane
a letter you won’t send
but you’d blow out every old flame
and then light the other end

so I’ll pretend to be Gibraltar
you pretend to be the Louvre
and we’ll sublimate desire
when it crawls into the room
exhumed at o’dark’thirty
just a shadow on the wall
sometimes I wonder if I’m here at all

I walk on mental beaches
with my svelte and stoic twin
but I don’t see his footprints
and I wonder where he’s been
the father hunter stumbles
in the dark he feels so small
sometimes I wonder if I’m here at all

credits

from A Landscape of Ghosts, released March 24, 2018
Guitar and vocal: Rob Siegel
Fiddle: Tim Roper
Upright bass: Peter Tillotson
Keyboard and percussion: Doug Kwartler

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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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