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The Trail Remains Unseen Lyrics by Paul Thomas Saunders

Descartes Highlands

2012

Leave the house
Your lover
And children
Take the car
Drive it down to the ocean
Cut your cards
Burn the letters you were given
In every word they swore true love was hidden
Tear apart your black suit
Cut your hair to its roots
Smoke your last cigarette
One last comforting breath
Then you howl down that road
Where all your brothers and your sisters wouldn’t go
Dream of girls that made you feel fifteen
With the palest skin
And her mother’s sympathy
But that trail remains unseen
Take the urn
Spread its ash on the garden
Every leaf will carry her love in summer
Turn the dial
Let the long wave flutter
Fighting static and song beneath the ether
Under a clear crescent moon
You hum along out of tune
Every doubt is erased
Spills out the car and into space
As you howl down that road
Where all your brothers and your sisters wouldn’t go
As the fields turn to coast
Let the water scare away all of your ghosts
Of the girls you held at seventeen
They had skinny waists and teenage liberty
All these things that you have seen
Every star
Every stone
Every soul you’ll never know
Spiralled out that great spark
To let us know that once we weren’t so far apart
From the girls that made you feel sixteen
How your brothers t-­‐shirts hung above her knees
All these things that you have seen
Credits
Paul Thomas Saunders

Paul Thomas Saunders

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"The Trail Remains Unseen" appears on "Descartes Highlands" in 2012.

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