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Painted album cover for Ashes or Dust

Cool and Calming Wind

Driving around for hours
With no place to go
I'm breathing in the sun
Through my window

When I left the night it was sober
And the highway drank me in
Now I'm fleeing like a bird
In a subtle wind

I sailed into the ocean
And fell down in a swoon
Then washed upon the shore
Of a sturgeon moon

Then I sank into a valley
I was desperate for the cold
In the fading light I heard
A distant crow

And then the cool and calming wind
Blew me back again
To a late September night
In Michigan

I dried up in the desert
Afraid of losing hope
When beneath the cracks I found
A buried soul

So I carried it to the mountain
We climbed up to the sky
When it opened up its wings
We began to fly

And then the cool and calming wind
Blew me back again
To a late September night
In Michigan

We flew out to the edge of the world
To see how far I'd go
We were breaking in the spring
Like a drifting floe

When we caught up with the morning
It was face down in a field
And I let that buried soul
Free in the weald

And then the cool and calming wind
Blew me back again
To a late September night
In Michigan

Yea the Cool and calming wind
Blew me back again
To a late September night
In Michigan

And then the cool and calming wind
Blew me back again
To a late September night
In Michigan

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