Weather Eye Open

by Wilson Marks

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Recorded sometime in June 2020

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Wilson Marks - Voice / Guitars / engine-earing
Janie Cowan- Bass

Mastered to tape by Justin Douglas at King Electric
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After raining in Opelousas the vapors just baked off the road
to the cogs of my brain the streets they were burning
I was seven years old
Well some books they keep all their pages
in bind that which binds is bound to break
sometimes thats all there is
some swollen ellipsis
your lip says mistake

and even asleep I kept a weather eye open
lest the dark tumble in or I slip and let hope in

Strange vestigial thing an appendix
like a body denying an end
a tailbone a remnant from when we were monkeys
just leaping from limbs
You can cling to that which no longer serves you
like our bodies to so I am told
but the ancestral weight of what wrongs came before us
are bound to explode

and even asleep I kept a weather eye open
lest the dark tumble in til I slept and let hope in

After raining in Opelousas the vapor just bakes off the road
to the cogs of my brain the streets are on fire
I am seven years old

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released June 22, 2020

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Wilson Marks Austin, Texas

Wilson Marks studied jazz in New Orleans and tacos in Austin TX. Pop-sensible melodies over technical, jazz-inspired fretwork. His voice is one part gravel (a la Tom Waits), one part whimsical (more like Harry Nilsson). Songs of love and longing, but more magical than your average fare, like the love and longing from one alien to another, from a merman to his mermaid. ... more

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