Name: Hourglass
Duration: P00H03M12S
Description: Originally written in the summer of 1988. Hard to remember for sure, but quite likely, on a ferry between Vashon and Seattle. This version recorded twenty years later in Seattle.

Hourglass

from Sleepwalking: Songs of Challis & Roos by David Roos

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Originally written in the summer of 1988. Hard to remember for sure, but quite likely, on a ferry between Vashon and Seattle. This version recorded twenty years later in Seattle.

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And through an hourglass
Darkly I go
Staying close to the wall
Like Alice
I can’t help but fall

My shoes are gold and glass, can’t step too hard
Softly I dance, grinding
I’ve broken my last chance

Wallflowers and petals are strewn in my bed
I lie but to wake
What soothes a heartache
Hunger soothes a heartache

But before this river dries, these banks are in flower
Find me and show me, there in the night
Be sure to run and find me

And if there’s a kind or a longing word
If there can be found one single word
Let me hear it, let me hear it

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from Sleepwalking: Songs of Challis & Roos, released December 20, 2008

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