Name: Song of Hiawatha
Duration: P00H04M55S
Description: I want to go outside and read "The Song of Hiawatha."

Song of Hiawatha

from Travelogue by Tom Schroeder

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I want to go outside and read "The Song of Hiawatha."

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of all the choices that didn't get made
of all the things i thought and did not say
of all the things that i kept shyly hidden to myself
this proud untested love was not one of them

the usual miracle, this common transformation
how shall we consecrate the smallness of this morning
i want another spoonful of your bitter cappucino
to taste this proud, untested and overwhelming love

i want to watch your sock, fallen down around your ankle
i want to drink the afternoon and taste it all behind my teeth
i want the sadness, desperation, gentleness and longing
of overwhelming, wayward, unfamiliar love

i want to complicate our secret childhood handshake
i want to go outside and read the song of hiawatha
want to watch the fading light fall across your face
fall across this darkness, madness, this overwhelming love

and i go to the point of communication that i have with my heart
at the end of the scar i received from reaching for
the too-perfect apple and i ask it again what promises you've made
my heart is a shy one and not good at keeping secrets
and it told me you said, 'keep yourself beating . . .
and i will make you beat faster

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from Travelogue, track released June 10, 2003
bass: mattress giant

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