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Ravenna

from Smash Hits by Roger Dean Young

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from "Pilgrim" - 2003

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Lastly, I trundle off to my pillow
Night sky a stone’s throw from my mat
I work on raising your image up to my mind’s eye
Thinking it’d be nice to drift off with you in my sight

A satellite is what I’d be if I circled round now
A shooting star if i plummeted to burn at your feet
Instead I’m a red tailed hawk ridin’ lift in the afternoon
Whether I descend is a matter of diminishing winds

Still there’s no reason to believe I’ll be home soon
I rise to a bell that beckons in a foreign tongue
The women of Ravenna pray in dim light rooms
As do you my long suffering one

“I, to, have been in Ravenna
it is a little dead city that has churches and a good many ruins,”
Not my words but the poet who calls out from my pack
My shoulders are sore from the weight of his words on my back

You wrote in your electronic mail that I should come home now,
As the candle you left in your window has sputtered and died
And in the event that I’m gone longer than six months
You cannot guarantee a lock’ll remain on your love

Still there’s no reason to believe I’ll be home soon
I rise to a bell that beckons in a foreign tongue
The women of Ravenna pray in dim light rooms
As do you my long suffering one

Lastly, I pray for your safety
It is a sentiment culled from a flowered and passionate past
As for now I lie alone wide open to the night winds
The most I can afford, a drifters benediction - Amen

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

rdy - vocals, guitar
chris rippin - lead guitar
rebecca till - vocals
Herman Hesse - poet

Produced & recorded by Roger Dean Young
at 57 Triumph vancouver, bc, spring 2003
Mixed by Roger Dean Young
in an upstairs built for two at 14th and Ontario
vancouver, BC spring 2003

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