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Beacon of Buswell

from In Lieu of Essays by Plumes

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Music written in April of 2015
Words written in June of 2015
Chorus verse 2 written in Fall 2016

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Why’d you leave on your light
Like the beacon of Buswell tonight?
Sitting there in the frame
You lean out and ask me my name
And I hope it was all a charade
Deeper interest you would not betray
Cause that lie, from this side, meant to hide that I sing yours all day

Two stories distance is all
If I fail to scale, fatal the fall
Two stories that could converge
Yours and mine looking to merge
But the traffic is heavy and slow
While there’s no other place I would go
I move back to my lane, still our parallel plane’s all we know

As I recall the ball’s in your side of the court
The courtship’s mast is split, no progress to report
The hungry masses eagerly await your word
Was hoping for one evening of your life absurd?

A stick and carrot, was it fixed there by my hand?
Preoccupation with a pleasant project planned
If she were closer would despair sooner derail?
Were she further stronger effort still would fail

Will we ever look back
Having timing and placement to thank?
Will I pine for some time
And move on once my memory’s blank?
Friends laugh when I call out your name
It’s a funny obsession to feign
But it does underwrite, since that night, how my hope’s been sustained

Now this privately public display
Is a publicly private dismay
Will I open my eyes and get wise to the way that she plays?

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from In Lieu of Essays, released September 19, 2018
Baritone Ukulele by John
Organ by Tim and John

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Plumes Boston, Massachusetts

Plumes is Ben Long (on the drums!) Tim Green and John Thorsen. Music- listening to it, learning to play it, writing more of it- has been one of few things we've taken really seriously for the last 7 years. These songs grew through many late nights and missed appointments. Our songs are all really about something. It's sincere and sometimes naked. Hope you like it ... more

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