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Carry On Heather​/​Rhapsody

from Smash Hits by Roger Dean Young

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from "casa" - 2005

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She left home in an overcoat
Married in a storm
Laid her first child down
In a bank of drifting snow

Carry on Heather, carry on home
Carry on wondering why the ties that bind
Have left you all alone

Well you carry all the drawings you loved
‘Til you carry them no more
Settle near a water source
Lay off your walls and floor

Carry on Heather, carry on home
Carry on wondering why the ties that bind
Have left you all alone

Lifted trusses heavenward
Draw, quarter the sky
Foundation stops the easy shift
Of dirt and embrace the lie

Carry on Heather, carry on home
Carry on wondering why the ties that bind
Have left you all alone

With every window pane
There comes a darkening shutter
Every stray shaft of light
The shadow and a mutter

Carry on Heather, carry on home
Carry on wondering why the ties that bind
Have left you all alone

These elastic consequences
They lose their meaning over time
Collapse, constrict the heartbeat
A sort of treason of the mind
At night just to let the blood flow
You loose the throat and let the wine go
Down, down, down.

Consider now a mantle piece
A transom bearing stone
Cross member with a heavy load
Now on a pillar left alone


Carry on Heather, carry on home
Carry on wondering why the ties that bind
Have left you all alone

/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\

She said :
I will build us a home
In the back of a converted bus
With plenty of windows to let the light in
A mansion of rivets and rust

Gardenias will be our official flower
Whippoorwill our bird
We’ll take as our own the songs of Bob
And Whitman as our word

As the dusk hovers on the hood of our home
We raise it plain to the god of comfort and plenty
And in the tradition of the great ascetics
Let our rhapsody stand for the many

credits

from Smash Hits, released October 20, 2020
written by Roger Dean Young

rdy - vocals, acoustic guitar, harmonica
chris rippin - drums, lead guitars
kori miyanishi - banjo
rebecca till - vocals
shaun brodie - horns
super robertson - bass

Produced by Bryan Seely & Roger Dean Young
Recorded by Brodie Smith
at the Art Institute burnaby, bc, july 2004
and Bryan Seely
at Flat Black surrey, bc 2004 - 05
Mixed by Brodie Smith
at SBEC vancouver, BC may 2005

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Roger Dean Young is a singer-songwriter sprung from the foothills of Alberta and deposited on the West Coast of British Columbia.

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