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Heavy Feathers

from Junebug by Jon Charles Dwyer

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I am the only son of my mother.
She's always saying "come hell or high water."
My grandma's soft voice, like tattered cotton,
Saying "one of these days I'll get us rich and spoiled rotten."
I come from high hopes, I come from tall truth.
A language spoke in hues of greener grass and wild blue.
Wouldn't always healthy, but, it never hurt.
Some things get took, some things get lost, some things never know their worth.

I wonder what it makes me now?
Blood and guts,
In a city that poor its insides in the streets.
I used to be, used to be such a breeze.
I've let regret make a mean wind out of me.
Where's my belief?

First time I came home, too much was missing.
We buried our family dog in the backyard that I played in.
Wrapped in a bath towel, like heavy feathers.
Death was just the final thread we tied together.
I had such high hopes but I let them tarry.
I thought I'd hug your neck on the day that I got married.
There's too much blood now, there's too much dead.
No grave I know that's deep and wide enough to hold it.

And I wonder why it eats my mind?
The last in line, no grand babe for my mother's knee.
Cause I don't believe, I don't believe.
I wouldn't do what got done to me.
Where's my belief?

One of these days I'll have to leave.
I don't want to go knowing all I've left behind's a fragile ghost of song.
I hope I'm light. Hope I'm easy to carry on.
Just a tune over the mountain you follow home.
I'm just a tune over the mountain you follow home.

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from Junebug, track released January 29, 2021

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Jon Charles Dwyer Asheville, North Carolina

Jon Charles Dwyer's songs embody the spirit of the Appalachian mountains he is married to: all poverty stricken loss and desire set against the backdrop of the most beautiful springtime of love and fresh hope tumbling over those hills and down to the valleys below. ... more

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