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Tend This Flame

from Road Movie by MDH

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"we all have to set the sun"

Partly written before going, and originally intended to be a new original song for In the Smoke. In the end the other characters muscled in: TJ was a waiter in a Mexican restaurant in Austin who was forlornly marvelling at how far we’d travelled, as if was doomed never to make it out of the country; Jonathan is a musician we met in Austin – check him out www.jonathanfleig.com; Kevin was our guide showing us the dinosaur footprints in the Navajo Nations near Tuba City, he’d casually walk around this wasteland squirting water from a bottle to mark out the imprints on the ground.

“Road trips aren’t movies – the plot doesn’t have an arc. They are list – a selection of tourisms threaded together so they accumulate. They say a change is as good as a break. Putting all these little changes in a row has the effect of multiplying the break. I never got any further with the dichotomy of standing back to watch, seeing only the glitzy surface vs. involvement and immersion, risking finding out that there is nothing exciting about 99% of people’s lives – nothing to take away. As expected I wasn’t especially inspired but reassured and affirmed. It was great to have the time, space, speed and breath to reflect over a long period of time. No epiphanies but, as a way of taking time out, I’d recommend the “road trip” to anyone. Maybe Damascus next year. MDH.”

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waiting for the phone to ring
I’m worried have they heard from him
it’s like Tyler from Rhode Island says: he’ll be back before you know

driving with the wipers on
deciding that tomorrow’s gone
it’s like Kevin from the desert says: we all have to set the sun

and I will tend this flame make no mistake
til you decide again that there’s a chance to take
I will tend this flame until there’s nothin more to say that you don’t know anyway

waking with the door unlocked
I’m washing the hands on the clock
it’s like TJ from Texas said to Jonathan from Flag: we gotta make it to the coast

reminding myself once again
that quiet is my oldest friend
like when Kevin from the desert stood and poured out his bottle on the ground

and I will tend this flame make no mistake
til you decide again that there’s a chance to take
I will tend this flame until there’s nothin more to say that you don’t know anyway

and they’ll sail the border until the dot is a line
and rear view mirrors will send them old valentines
and those foreign oceans will carry them back through the time of their lives

and I will tend this flame make no mistake
til you decide again that there’s a chance to take
I will tend this flame until there’s nothin more to say that you don’t know anyway

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from Road Movie, released September 1, 2014

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MDHmusic.com is the home of recording artist MDH (Michael Humphrey) and the hub for a range of musical endeavours offered by MDH that you may be interested in. MDH writes, arranges, directs, produces, composes and performs – check out mdhmusic.com for more info. ... more

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