“This song started out as a melody that I really liked with a few phrases that evoked a transitory journey of some kind. It took forever to actually finish it. I kept coming back to it but it wasn’t ready. Finally, I went back to some old Ansel Adams photographs. There’s a famous one called Moonrise Over Hernandez, New Mexico, which I love. In the foreground, a little desert cemetery shimmers brilliant and white in the moonlight. That image ended up being the final key to the puzzle of the song, which also serves as the coda to the five songs on the EP.”
lyrics
At dawn we left with a love in our hands
For the border to cross the great wasteland
Miles and miles come and go we grow older
Kiss me now while the desert is in your hair
At night I dream about the angels weaving
Cloaks of stars for saints unnamed
The faintest light at the edge of the day
See it barrel toward us now like a holy freight train
The night is ripe with reckless dares
My head is full of lonesome prayers
This desiccated night shares a border with the sea
We walk for years, no door in sight, jingling our keys
Miles and miles lay before us and behind
What is home but the shelter of your company and time?
The night is ripe with reckless dares
My head is full of lonesome prayers
The quiet crosses shining with the moon come into view
As we limp around the endless bend with pebbles in our shoes
If the sun should greet our hungry eyes with wine and bread in hand
I will sing to you of water’s dream: to fall and quench the land
credits
from If We Set Out Now (EP),
released June 14, 2011
Scott Pryor - guitar, vocals
Emma Morrow - fiddle, harmony vox
Jake Morrow - banjo, harmony vox
Devin Greenwood - electric guitar, organ
Todd Erk - bass
Tom Bendel - drums
Durham, NC singer-songwriter Skylar Gudasz makes intimate Americana delivered with dry wit and stunningly precise vocal acumen. Bandcamp New & Notable Apr 14, 2020
