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Ernest Hemingway

from Alyosha by Joshua Powell

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I wrote this song after visiting my brother Sean in Colorado and hiking along the Continental Divide. I was reading "The Snows of Kilimanjaro" and was inspired by how much Hem could say with so few words. I imitated his sparsity in these lyrics that reminisce about our experience on the trip--drinking whiskey by the fire, communing with each other, sleeping in the woods.

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Strung along, careless fires
and the vertebrate of fences
Loft of a ruined choir
and the counterpoint of vague assemblies

In a copse of birch trees
I dream of Iceland
and drink the snowmelt

Avalanches, slick as sharks
in the fossil record
In Colorado
bliss of Christmas lights and air travel

In a copse of birch trees
I dream of Iceland
and drink the snowmelt

So, brother, pour me a drink
and watch for eyes beyond the fire ring

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from Alyosha, released October 14, 2015

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Joshua Powell is the exhausted wizard at the helm of IN's most haunted rock band. From his hardcore roots in the Floridian swamps and beyond the fever dream of his folk era, his literary lyrics dig for enlightenment in a surrealist muck. “Four LP's and over 900 shows later, the midwestern road dog's ever- evolving, transcendent style embraces hallucinatory metal and grimy psychedelia.” -Audiotree ... more

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