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Freeze the Sailor

from Beginning at the Wilderness by Shawnee Kilgore

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lyrics

freeze the sailor in a moment
be kind and choose the one he loves the most
how he wishes he could hold that ghost
how he wishes he was breathing

trees of winter standing still no more
the brittle season of the wind and storm
watching fields behind the country stores
he swore he’d last another winter

now I’m wishing I could fly
I would give it away

we used to watch him working on his boat
with shining skin we’d pass him on the road
kept his head down in a sailor’s clothes
an awesome sight when he was younger

he smoked and spoke
with just a slight breath left
with just the violins and coronets
ancient green and angled close with death
a knot in place of all the hardness

now I’m wishing I could fly
I would give it away

you know he didn’t touch the earth that day
he didn’t even touch the earth that day
I didn’t even touch the earth that day

freeze the sailor in a moment
be kind and choose the one he loved the best
how he wishes he could feel his chest
how he wishes he was breathing

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from Beginning at the Wilderness, released September 8, 2020
Mark Erelli on harmony vocals

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"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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