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Slow Down (featuring Sufjan Stevens)

from Gabriel Kahane by Gabriel Kahane

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lyrics

Tarpaulined sailboats and sportscars are splayed on Everyone’s plot of suburban green rayon
This is the stuff that philosophers prey on,
Dreaming.

She left New York to uncover a feeling
Deep in a forest she comes to a clearing
Where spiders and frogs climb down from the ceiling
She slows down.

The scene on the sidewalk is grassy green terror
Everyone smiles as the summer gets fairer
She can’t shake the skin off this neon unbearable sky.

She slows down. And sees
Soldiers smoking cigarettes
Making bombs and placing bets
Telling tales of girls who slept beside them at home
In the clearing she takes of her skirt and her flip flops Wades in the water it grazes her kneetops
Floats on her back looking up at the blue drops of sky

She slows down.

She falls asleep on the creek and the stillness
The spiders and frogs and the clearing bear witness
To words dropped like pearls on the water and notice
Just how deep they go

Slow down.

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from Gabriel Kahane, released September 15, 2008

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