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The Wheel 1: Desolation

from Blues Spake Zarathustra by Richard Carlson

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In occurred to me that some songs in a cycle of poems I was putting to song called the Wheel by Wendell Berry -farmer, novelist essayist, poet, mensch - work best as a blues, since the subject concerns time and death.

Well the blues finally takes us there doesn’t it? The wheel we turn on, the dance of fragile bodies. But if death is desolation that sees our comforts torn out by root and crown at least since Dionysus roamed these parts, it is also is heard in a loud, if not sardonic, laughter that we hear rising up from dancers spinning round with him...

"In the dance the dead return sorrow is gone from them they are light".......


Lyrics from Wendell Berry’s The Wheel with permission Counterpoint Press copyright....

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A gracious Spirit sings as it comes
and goes. It moves forever
among things. Earth and flesh, passing
into each other, sing together
turned against that ,,,,, song we go
where no singing is or light
or need coupled with its yes
but spite, despair, fear, and loneliness
unless the solitary,,,,, will forbear,
time enters the flesh to sever
passion from all care
annul the lineage of consequence
un-less the solitary will forbear
the blade enters the ground
to tear the world’s comfort out, by root and crown

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from Blues Spake Zarathustra, released November 24, 2010
Music by Richard Carlson, Lyrics by Wendel Berry

Vocals, Guitar: Richard Carlson
Guitar, Bass: Buddy Mohmed

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Richard - Guitar

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