forget the definitions. a cardinal, on a snowy chicago day, is nothing short of a blessing. for a brief moment it is like someone is trying to send you some spiritual message...and then the blessing is gone, just like that, in a moment. that's what this song is about, more or less.





(lyrics, loosely followed)
silly cardinal painted on
a merry-go
a dozen or so in a row
to fool motion

to a young passerby it may appear
as though you are in flight
scarlet trick 
of the eye
no emotion

but it's nice to 
think for a moment 
at least
that there's something magic 
deriving from 
all your devotion

to believe it, you can still see it
when you close your eyes it's like it never left
that same old feeling, that lives in your dreaming
afraid if you open up it will fade again

but the more that 
you learn
takes you further gone 
and it hurts
but you can't go back cuz' the yearn
is what started it

and every truth unfolds like 
footfalls in the snow
you look back but there's no hope
that it'll look like when you started it

but you still believe it, you can see it
when you close your eyes it's like it never left
that same old feeling, that lives in your dreaming
afraid if you open up it will fade again

don't fade my friend, 
my rare cardinal
stay until the very end, my rarest cardinal

my cardinal

night walk

Denouement or (sources say: BOY TRANSFORMED INTO BUTTERFLY AFTER READING THIS ONE BOOK)

few fires

SAD BOY TURNS HOPEFUL THIS HOLIDAY SEASON (see how he reacts)

strings

song for my friends
(sorry-ish for the quality)

more than anatomy

"I'll give you the moon, Mary."

home is a hum that changes over time, and some days you remember what it used to sound like and that can make you a good kind of sad. this is a return to that hum as a man that i am now. it's as close as i can get it right now. 

thank you for listening. :)

return

omaggio (return)

i remember sitting in my sunday chair, surrounded by expectant bodies, just waiting for this song to play and start our soul records all over.

Isaac & the attic sounds