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Looking At A Full Moon

from The Sleeper Pins by The Sleeper Pins

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Ever go outside in the middle of a December night while the snow is quietly falling?  Peaceful and amazing.  The amount of light a full moon gives off is incredible.  And you can almost hear each snowflake around you hitting the ground.  I was thinking about a lot of things. A person walking up to the house of someone they know to knock on the door; but then changing their mind for whatever reason and turning away.  How there would be perfect footsteps imprinted in the drifts of snow (coming and going).  And what the person in that house would think about those footprint the next morning when they saw them. 
How tons of people have stared at the moon and just thought about space and the universe and the earth and wondered what our place is in it and wished they had the answer.  How cool is it that eventually we as humans figured out a way to get up to the moon?!  How much ingenuity and bravery it took!  And the fact that the earth and the moon are so far apart yet they impact each other significantly everyday.  It touches us, and we have touched it and left footprints on its surface.
That at the same time, somewhere in the world, there had to be some more people doing exactly what I was doing that night--coming home late from somewhere and noticing how calm, peaceful, and pretty the world can be in the moonlight in December when most others are sleeping.  That somehow . we are all connected.  That while everything else around us changes, there are a few constants left that we can count on to be there.

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SILENT SLIVER IN THE SKY
WITHOUT A WORD YOU CHANGE THE TIDES
COLD WIND BY YOUR NIGHT LIGHT
SNOWFLAKES FALL ON EVERY SIDE

I WANNA SEE IT ALL I WANNA KNOW
AS SURE AS I LEAVE PERFECT FOOTPRINTS IN THE SNOW
WALKING FAR AWAY FROM YOU
WALKING FAR AWAY FROM YOU

WE CAN NOT ADMIT DEFEAT
NOTHING LEFT BUT HOPE TO KEEP
CRATERS TOUCHED BY HUMAN HANDS
MOONBEAMS REACH TO WHERE I STAND

I WANNA SEE IT ALL I WANNA KNOW
AS SURE AS I LEAVE PERFECT FOOTPRINTS IN THE SNOW
WALKING FAR AWAY FROM YOU
WALKING FAR AWAY FROM YOU

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from The Sleeper Pins, released August 8, 2013
Tyson Allison--guitar, vocals, bass, analog synth
Justin Deleon--drums, percussion
Aaron Kerr--cello

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Emperor Penguin Records Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Emperor Penguin Records began in 2003 in St. Paul, MN and later moved to Milwaukee, WI in 2015. The label is run by musician/producer Tyson Allison. EPR enlists and caters to singer/songwriters, introverts, experimental weirdos, bookish people, and crafters that paint pictures with words and toy with your emotions on a well-placed chord. Thank you for your interest! ... more

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