Always Catching Up
from The Age of Reunion by Michael Garfield
Catherine Merrill
Catherine Merrill
It is a deeply felt experience, a complex path home. I want to hear this again and again to make it familiar. Thank you for including the lyrics, Michael. To read them feels like reading a map.
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lyrics
Time's not a river; more like a landslide.
Arrows in quivers, breaking inside.
Every shiver, molting a new life,
Needed and given, stride after stride.
You're always catching up.
You can't be helped to respond to what is already gone.
You're ahead of yourself,
Lapped by your ghost on the life track,
Short rope in the well,
Unraveling more for more slack.
You're a flaming caboose,
Punctuating the past,
Flagellate prop in the juice,
Bringing up a fast pack's back.
You're always catching up.
You can't be helped to respond
To what is already gone.
But walking, according to physiologists,
Is a controlled fall forwards.
Toddling to tottering,
All of us are always one step from
And one step toward.
But life's just like that.
Languages grow at the rhythm of walking pace,
And every idea you inhabit
Is seconds behind your Original Face...
You're always catching up.
You can't be helped to respond
To what is already gone.
You can't be helped to move on,
Pushing the river that started this song.
Arrows in quivers, breaking inside.
Every shiver, molting a new life,
Needed and given, stride after stride.
You're always catching up.
You can't be helped to respond to what is already gone.
You're ahead of yourself,
Lapped by your ghost on the life track,
Short rope in the well,
Unraveling more for more slack.
You're a flaming caboose,
Punctuating the past,
Flagellate prop in the juice,
Bringing up a fast pack's back.
You're always catching up.
You can't be helped to respond
To what is already gone.
But walking, according to physiologists,
Is a controlled fall forwards.
Toddling to tottering,
All of us are always one step from
And one step toward.
But life's just like that.
Languages grow at the rhythm of walking pace,
And every idea you inhabit
Is seconds behind your Original Face...
You're always catching up.
You can't be helped to respond
To what is already gone.
You can't be helped to move on,
Pushing the river that started this song.
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from The Age of Reunion,
releases April 24, 2024
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Michael Garfield Santa Fe, New Mexico
Singer-songwriter, avant-guitarist, and live electronic producer all at once, Michael's dynamic live shows and intricate albums takes listeners on emotional trips spanning folk tradition and the avant-garde.
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