I kept this
track 08, blue water
[image credit, unknown] [my daughter, image with permission]
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you stand over the crib
and look down
they are safe
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i don’t know what to call that feeling
the one that moves through you
when you realize something that small
is here
alive
breathing
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a few times
i have been lucky enough
to be in the room
when something began
i stood over something new
and felt it
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i found the piano I used for this song in a warehouse
of pianos belonging to other people
looking to be moved
an old upright
front cover off
Just Jed put nice mics on the hammers
i played it at night
and in the morning
for a week and a half
it sounded like it was inside a wooden box
old timey warm
reminiscent of the place I grew up
when I first understood
what it meant to witness something
being born
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I still have table and chair needs
so I gave it back
but I kept this
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blue water
is where the album submerges again
grief behind you now
the wonder still ahead
this is the moment
between
standing over the crib
looking down
feeling that they are safe
and realizing
somewhere in that stillness
you are too
