Name: In the Wool
Duration: P00H03M07S
Description: "In the Wool" is the first single from my upcoming album, THREE; 8 songs produced by Malcolm Burn (Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Emmylou Harris, The Jayhawks, among many others).

In the Wool

by Nathaniel Bellows

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"In the Wool" is the first single from my upcoming album, THREE; 8 songs produced by Malcolm Burn (Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Emmylou Harris, The Jayhawks, among many others).

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IN THE WOOL

In the wool
dyed, damned, indelible
I'd planned to leave it all,
turn the leaf,
learn the terms to swerve
and seize
the day

In the wool come wind me in ball
come make me from a strand into a string
to something served for covering
the face

When the baby cries again, let the love ignite and swim like swallows circling, scribed across the gray. When the ram and when the ewe, huddles down to dream of dew like tallow, sod, and summer dull the blade.

Oh, in the wool come find me, minotaur, amaze me:
Born a man or born a beast by sorcery or family or just fate?
Just fate….

Of all things, now,
to unravel all the seams I've sewn
Come to think, wow! how the pattern
will reveal each bone, and I said:
"Oh, my aching hands,"

from gathering all the leaves for fire and for heat
They told me
I don't need this coat, so I stole another bead I'd loaned
from starry little me unknown
unborn

In the wool cut clean from animals I'd feed
But then the men, the empty pen, emptied, then, of every friend
And then the bruise the fear of school the solace walking in the woods
Then the face, the added weight,
the feeling fortune smiles upon
the stained

When the baby cries again, let the love ignite and swim like swallows circling, scribed across the gray. When the lamb and when the ewe, huddles down to dream of dew like tallow, sod, and summer dull the blade

And never let a kindness go to waste
I remember this like I was yesterday

credits

released September 29, 2020
Nathaniel Bellows: Acoustic Guitar, Vocals
Malcolm Burn: Bass Guitar, Fender Rhodes
Steve Decker: Drums

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