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Mind Misfit

from In Lieu of Essays by Plumes

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Music and words written in Winter 2014-2015
Verse 2 and some other edits written in July 2018

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Sunsets in the corner room and summers alone
Hours too abundant lead to too many blown
Unaware this solitude, too close to be shown
Few among his species ever known

Most who came before him planned on beyond their bones
Most would never live among some millions unknown
Most were never asked to build a life all their own
Staunch ancient needs forgot by power grown

How many others have this view of the sprawl?
Everyone is here but I know no one at all
Running out of spring, can I escape by the fall?
Most of us quite anonymous ‘til the sure unsure call

Tell me that it’s more than just a chemical scare
Tell me that I’ve got an obligation to care
Tell me cosmic unimportance puts it unfair
Don’t name a value I just have to share

I don't want to ignore it more
I don't want to ignore
Engage the questions, answer please, look me in the eye
And tell me what this instinct is for

How many others have this view of the sprawl?
Everyone is here but I know no one at all
Running out of spring, can I escape by the fall?
Most of us quite anonymous ‘til the sure unsure call

Once a likeness image, now a gift of the gears
One amazing product of 14 billion years
Lonely understanding it will all disappear
But in awe of all they saw
Lucky to perceive at all
Hope to walk above the crawl
In spite of their fear

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from In Lieu of Essays, released September 19, 2018

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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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