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Wooly Mammoth's Mighty Absence

from Dawn by Mount Eerie

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Wooly Mammoth’s Mighty Absence

Quickly forgetting
was the way I lived my life.
Try telling me your name
or try telling me “don’t worry”.
Everything I knew would quickly wither and die
and all echoes would be buried in the sound
of living: the sound of my feet on the sidewalk.
That was me:
treasure hunting, I would bury what I found.
That was me:
a gold digger underground.

Quickly forgotten
was that forgetful way of life
when I left home, when I lived as if I’d died.
Sitting on a rock and doing nothing
alone for so long
in the dark I found my sight
and there your name was,
written large in letters bright
and there my faith was.
“Worry not” declared the night.
In the great void of my life
I could feel the shape of what was missing,
like the way the woolly mammoth
stands so tall and bold in our minds,
I was shaken at the size of my cry
and the true love it described.

I know day is dawning now.
So ends my “holy night”.
It’s back to the world I go.
Back to the girls and shows
and all the worldly woes
and their unfurling clothes.
Will I carry myself slowly enough to remember?
I sit on a dark rock still, just crowded,
and there’s the love
in flesh and bone.

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from Dawn, released November 1, 2008

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