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Homeward Bound

from The Other Side by Paul Bergmann

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I'll sing the songs
You'll live my life
Way out in the mountains
Where I long to be
One day I’ll get there
Dine below the stars
Eat what I’ve killed
Blood-red wine
Give my love to the moon
Harbor no grudge
For ones on the road
For tickets out-sold
‘Cause I'm half old
And I won't be known
Build an outhouse commode
And die in the growth
Of a gnarled forest
In a mossy orifice
My body will lay
They’ll eat me away
It'll be the last show I’ll play
Last record to date
On the mountain’s grand stage
Nothing left to believe
Nothing left to concede
Just my heart on the breeze
A faint song at your knees
And you'll live my life
And I’ll say these things
Like “All those men
Writing songs of all
their dreaming”*

I told my mind “you’re dreaming”
He buried me today
It feels as if the curtain
The curtain has been drawn
The moon was far away
Yet it touched me cheek to cheek
I watched my heart abandon
Abandon me today
We rose up to a ridge
Twilight swept our eyes
Cleared cobwebs from the mind
Growing slowly over time
Since the child in us died
But now I’m laughing with the sky
All forever in the sky
All forever in the sky

* Quote is from “Come into the Water” by Mitski

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from The Other Side, released April 2, 2021

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Paul Bergmann New Haven, Connecticut

In his relentless oeuvre-building, Paul has amassed an especially articulate kind of existentialism: what it means to persist, and to create, in a world which dies in the near distance. In No Masters in Paradise, the form of the songwriter’s ballad, in the hands of an expert, is turned inward for comfort, resisting the base lure of worldly approval. ... more

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