Name: Rosewood
Duration: P00H04M25S
Description: This song is an homage to a music prodigy. It is a loving goodbye composed almost completely of guitar metaphors.

Rosewood

from Pitch Black Noise by Anna Brooks

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This song is an homage to a music prodigy. It is a loving goodbye composed almost completely of guitar metaphors.

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Rosewood

Pick up your body
and play it to me.
Practice your hands
and use them to see.
Patch your pickups,
and solder your heart.
Fix all the lines
that were broken to start.
Oh you were broken
and callused too deep,
now I hope that you put down
those bad memories.

Go and rest
incredible hands
take me to music
I don’t understand
all your eight strings,
just steal me four tracks
leave a note on your rosewood
and dirt in your tire tracks.

In sound-proof asylum
you fixed my guitar.
Ingrained in it’s memory
your stories and scars.
Before it lost tune,
it saw fingers that flew
heard me tell it I loved you,
felt a real iron man
and his metal heart, too.

It’s collecting
dust.
Forgotten the days,
just some welded connection
you never
thought to
replace.

And I say so long
to the days where I'd wait.
In the seat that you plastered me,
I was replaced.
Now look who's alive,
and who follows grand plans.
But who can't say goodbye
to a talented man.

Go and rest
Incredible hands.

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from Pitch Black Noise, released August 28, 2014

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Anna Brooks Ann Arbor, Michigan

Anna Brooks is a lyricist and musician who writes from the perspective of a biologist.

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