From the recording Better
Thought it might be fun to make the last word of each line the first word of the next line. And layer it on Joni Mitchell guitar tuning (CGDGBD) that makes it easy to switch keys undetected.
Lyrics
The moon laid a shimmerpath across the ocean
Lulled an agelong discourse with the stones
Glistened clean and drenched with balming minerals
Healed the lesions on my wounded skin
Twisted tighter wound than the braided cable
Knotted on a mooring gaff-rigged vessel
Rolled upon a churning, surging high tide
Like a ribbon on her flowing tresses
And it doesn’t take much
No, it doesn’t take much
It doesn’t take much
To tie you back into her flowing tresses
Were a ferny grove of bright-bark chestnut
Dressed the rugged slopes of the western ridge
Shields you from the wind of industrial giants
Lumbered out across these upheaved hills
And it doesn’t take much
No, it doesn’t take much
It doesn’t take much
To lumber out across these upheaved hills
Were tipped on end by an ancient collision
Pressed a metamorphic quantum shock wave
To the dancing children of just spring
Forth empowered in the bloodroot moon
Forth empowered in the bloodroot moon
(c) Dave Nealon 2022