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Drone of a Motor c Chuck LeMonds 2006

The drone of a motor
Travelling across the Ionian Sea at night
Like a chant from the bearded monks
Wearing grey robes in the mid-day sun.

It’s the heart of loneliness
The heart of all hearts
A call to remember the dead
To remember what’s been lost.

It’s my loneliness, which is sometimes lost
In every day turning
Just a man, listening to the wind
The waves and a sound in the night.

Mourning all that wasn’t done
Mourning all that was
But what will never be touched again
Or smelled and tasted.

All the monuments to mankind
Can not stop the tears
All the monuments to mankind
Can not end the fear
All the monuments to mankind
Can not slow the years
All the monuments to mankind
Can not bring you here.

To learn to love without fear
Would be a feat worth pursuing
Or to hear a voice in the night
Calling, calling, calling

A light house, foghorn
Abandoned covered in dust
bird shit, and spider webs
A play ground for the mice

Ships run aground
And some are out to sea
Still searching for Itaka, home home at last.

Drifting farther from the one tone
That holds all sense of meaning
It’s so simple, and that’s why
It’s been overlooked.

A monument to all who have lived
A temple built by the Greeks or the Aztecs
All great cultures that have ruled
Or been swept away with their greediness.

Answers encoded in holy books passed on
Chances to be saved
For what I don’t know
In case paradise will be waiting.

But how can anything be
More beautiful than you
Sleeping in the bed
right here by my side.

It’s getting light out in Kefalonia
The waves show me my loneliness
Which no one can take from me
And it’s good so, yeah it’s good so.

If I just sing one more song
I can hurt no one
Just keep singing a melody
Just keep singing in motion.

Sing the grief, sing the loss
Everybody’s....somebody has to
Sing the joy hidden amongst
The crumbling monuments to mankind.

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from Album: Mississippi Angel (2008), released September 25, 2008
Chuck LeMonds - acoustic guitar, vocals

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Chuck LeMonds’ music is a kind of Country Soul gumbo of blues, folk, funk and country with poetic lyrics that call to be heard. In times like these, the music and songwriting of Chuck LeMonds has the effect of a soothing balsam for the soul, or that of a plow turning over fresh soil in a field waiting to be planted in spring. ... more

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