At the Water's Edge

from Beginning at the Wilderness by Shawnee Kilgore

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lyrics

I broke the silence
and I broke the dawn
it’s just the wrong side of the writer
that you woke upon
I will be coming back
I will be coming strong

I held the pages
and I held the pen
I held the broken heart
that couldn’t seem to bleed again
I’m coming empty
but I’m coming in

I’ve been drinking at the water’s edge
prayed for thunder in the watershed
dreamed a bridge across the river bed
when it dried I bled

I pray for music
and I pray for words
I pray for anything but silence
in the mouths of birds
it’s more than I expect
it’s more than I deserve

maybe I have taken
more than mine
maybe I’m here taking shots
of someone else’s wine
my breath is coming back
gasping line by line

I’ve been drinking at the water’s edge
prayed for thunder in the watershed
dreamed a bridge across the river bed
when it dried I bled

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from Beginning at the Wilderness, released September 8, 2020
Shawnee Kilgore on acoustic guitar, vocals, harmony vocals
Zachariah Hickman on pump organ

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Shawnee Kilgore Austin, Texas

"Shawnee Kilgore is to music as velvet gloves are to diamond cutters,” wrote James Hardesty, owner of the Green Frog Acoustic Tavern in Bellingham, WA. “She holds all this beauty in her hand, raw and untouched, then she chips away until it gleams in the light, holding on with a soft gentleness that she has perfected." ... more

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