Song Description

How can someone say something universally relevant and still justify the singular attention demanded in order to be heard, respected, and understood? The simple rural rhythm and catchy chorus hook in 'Returning the Wheel' are meant to attract a listener's own voice to sing along simply and selfishly, to almost embody this paradox. It's purpose is similar to the anonymous common monastic prayer, in which the writer tries to put words into the mouths of others: "O master, grant that I may never seek so much to be consoled as to console, to be understood as to understand...".

Lyrics

Returning The Wheel

I'm singing out from the form, how would I
etch water into stone
for you my vapor friends?

I'm leaving out what you won't why should I
deny a body's own
unavoidable defense?

CHORUS:
I am a sign outside your lining
I and I am you are
not understood
to say it is so much
closer to me by far.

It's not a mind or a mouth I'm mocking
when I wink and tell the truth
do you want to wonder why?
I ape the law if I feel like talking
a covenantal tooth,
a story for an eye.

CHORUS

I want to trip through the trees not knowing
the center from the strand
or the duty from the deed.
Swear on the soil of a crop slow growing
accidentally understand that a promise is a weed.

CHORUS

(swear on the soil of a crop so scattered..