New Song: Old Crow

Hey there!

This week's offering is a song inspired by an awesome mural done by Joanna Angie, an artist friend of ours in Buffalo. Marg used to work for Joanna at the Buffalo Arts Studio. The mural in question takes up a part of the wall leading up to BAS, which is in the Tri-Main building. The Tri-Main building used to be a wiper blade factory, among other things.

Old Crow (click for .mp3)
words and music (c) Mark Frey 2008

Old crow
pinned to the wall with bristles and oil
wishing she could fly
only wishing she could fly

one eye blind
sun in retreat, dark corners grow
lurking under a purple sky
cinema sunset purple sky

bathed in a strange light
strange electric light

Sterile charm
no hint of disease or decay
perfect perch on the desert rim
what a view from the desert rim

bathed in a strange light
strange electric light

Fixed eyes keep order
moment to moment, space into space
when night comes they soar from this place
room to fly and winds to race

Old crow
pinned to the wall with bristles and oil
only wishing she could fly
still wishing she could fly

bathed in a strange light
strange electric light