Always Catching Up
from Electric Cowboy Ballads EP by Michael Garfield
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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 it 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 it already gone.
But walking, according to physiologists,
is a controlled fall forwards,
and 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 we inhabit is seconds behind your Original Face...
You're always catching up.
You can't be helped to respond to what it 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 it 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 it already gone.
But walking, according to physiologists,
is a controlled fall forwards,
and 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 we inhabit is seconds behind your Original Face...
You're always catching up.
You can't be helped to respond to what it already gone.
You can't be helped to move on,
pushing the river that started this song.
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from Electric Cowboy Ballads EP,
released May 11, 2018
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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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