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What Comes This Way (Laura and Ron)
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poem and music, recorded live
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A mix of music, poetry, chanson, bhajan, and a wee bit of madness, with Laura Tattoo at the keyboard (typing) and Ron Walker on instruments of every shape, size
. Laura is also the melodymaker of the team. Musical arrangements and instrumentation by Ron "Magic Fingers" Walker, also known to early fans as "Dr. Wong"... he'll swing you into the sunset with his incredible left-hand bass and beautiful chords. We are featuring some of Ron's instrumental music on Soundclick. Ron wrote music for film and video for many years, and you can really hear that influence in his songs. We're experimenting together and solo. Come fly with us, bebe!
Song Info
Genre
Podcasts • Poetry
Charts
Peak #29
Peak in subgenre #5
Author
Laura Tattoo/Ron Walker
Rights
2008
Uploaded
September 26, 2009
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MP3 3.7 MB • 128 kbps • 4:04
Story behind the song
this poem and music was recorded live. sorry for the bit of noise in the recording. we've got better equipment now! :>>))
Lyrics
What Comes This Way by Laura Tattoo What comes this way is not given without pain It is not given without hard breathing and sweat or a good swat on the head What comes this way bends until vertigo sets in with night fevers and dreams that awaken you in screams and tremors and self-blames What comes this way costs more than your right arm or all you could pinch in a lifetime of flinching or the jewel passed down from great-grandmaman's dowry or handwoven silk wound round the world ten times or the sunken wreck of a pirate's laden ship What comes this way is always hungry and tugs at your belly and growls its demands until you just can't stand it What comes this way is more illness than the black plague visited upon us every child, woman and man carried away her slave What comes this way is never a bandage but rather an opener for all your wounds until you've bled to death and stand white as the sands What comes this way even if you haven't asked even if you hide yourself in a deep mountain chasm she will find you still and you will have to ask then you'll be made to demand forgiveness for every major or minor or unconscious sin you have laden her with For what comes this way is brief and hard and so full of longing that even kings fall to the floor in her terrible presence She knows your heart She knows every song your tongue has sung and every wish you've listed and she's waiting to give you that one last fell blow to break your ego, to claim your soul as her own to remake you, reshape you into almighty God For what comes this way may not be very pleasing but for the power of the chord, you must be reborn a flaming word
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