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The Nature Of A Road

from 2024 FAWM Songs, Rough Cuts by Cat Faber

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This song was inspired by a post by hookland.bsky.social about roads being ghost tracks

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A road by nature is a place
Where one can cross both time and space
A way between, that feels the tread
Of both the living and the dead
Where both can leave a lasting trace

Where one may walk the ancient ways
Dating back to Roman days
And where a bridge has fallen prone
Find great dragon-teeth of stone
While on the banks the white sheep graze

Or meet, where winds are winter-wild
A walker with a bundled child
Who may return when they are grown
Leading children of their own
Here where the years are reconciled

And turning home when dusk is nigh
In the shadows we may spy
In shawls and cloaks of days of yore
The shades of those who passed before
May pass again before our eye

So let us leave our safe abode
To offer what the land is owed
Crossing space and crossing time
Both prosaic and sublime
That is the nature of a road.

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from 2024 FAWM Songs, Rough Cuts, released February 2, 2024

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Cat Faber Tennessee

I write music about science fiction and fantasy subjects, commonly referred to as "filk."

I write much faster than I can record. Recent songs may be found at my website--the URL is given below.

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