Do you love me like you used to?
Do you love me at all?
It's hard to feel something from you
when you give nothing at all.
Does a rock remember sediment
or only the crevice that is made?
Has absence made it easy to forget?
Do you even know who left the marks I made?
I know what you did or didn't do.
Sometimes I think that you eroded.
I know that we all took a piece,
but you forgot or never noticed;
you just know that nothing ever feels complete.
You taught people how to live,
because you were scared to die.
You taught us all to face the current,
fearing you would lose the strength to stay alive.
I know what you did or didn't do.
Your shoulders have become a hardened grey,
filled with broken pieces of shame
spread amongst your glittering veins
that show signs of a former life,
leading to a heart that's nearly petrified.
Edd Donovan's day job as a social worker brings a sense of empathy to his elegantly constructed political folk music. Bandcamp New & Notable Nov 26, 2019
On “Meet Me By the River,” Dawn Landes’s self-described “Nashville record,” buoyant country melodies settle deep into lush instrumentation. Bandcamp New & Notable May 7, 2018