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Finding your peace in the maelstrom. Written during the 2003 Iraq invasion, though it applies frighteningly well today.

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when it’s snowing on the boundaries
and the crowd is getting tense
and the heat from flaming arrows
is enough to melt the fence
when the bankers of emotion
say the offer is withdrawn
maybe then you’ll find me
in the song

when the zoo expels its contents
when the creatures choose their words
when the squirrels run for office
when the nuts are cracked in thirds
when the swallows have forsaken
Capistrano for Hong Kong
maybe then you’ll find me
in the song

it’s a mess you’ve blundered into
it’s two eyes for an eye
you fed the hand that bit you
it’s a sharp stick in the eye
the unseen artist paints with people
fashioned from red clay
in the pleasure dome
even Rome
wasn’t ruined in a day

when the nursery rhyme reverses
when the dish becomes the spoon
when the cow misjudges badly
and eradicates the moon
when they hunt down moose and squirrel
just because they’re badly drawn
maybe then you’ll find me
in the song

when the bride is on the barrel
the margins have been shaved
every back has got two monkeys
every dog has got two days
Clytemnestra’s out of Prozac
and she’s babbling until dawn
maybe then you’ll find me
in the song

you’ll find I’ve had my filling
you’ll find I can’t be found
Elvis left the building
he’s fled for higher ground
the oracle spews bile
while it grins from ear to ear
in the castles of the west the best
and brightest have a beer

when the listless hold the levers
and the righteous reel ‘em in
when the snipers nail the angels
that are dancing on the pin
when there’s every indication
that it’s going horribly wrong
maybe then you’ll find me
in the song

when it’s snowing on the boundaries
and the crowd is on a roll
and you follow your own footprints
to the bunkers of the soul
when there’s no one home inside you
and inside you you’re still drawn
maybe then you’ll find you
in the song

credits

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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