Something Borrowed, Something Found

• Something Borrowed, Something Found

Something Borrowed, Something Found

We lived oh we lived
Like rubber bands round
Something borrowed
Something found

We slept last night upon the sun
Through miles and miles of ground
A carry case of covenants
In yet another town
Woken by the garbage trucks
And cold between our toes
Oh so cold

We lived oh we lived
Like dandelions spring
Pavements cracking open
To let them in

Below the walls that raise us
Under the places that we walk
The roots of trees all tangled
With the wires that carry talk
Of buried things
And treasured things
Things that tied the knots
Into our bones

We lived oh we lived
Like rubber bands round
The shoes that carried you
Home and stayed

Woken by the garbage trucks
Rumbling in the street
Powder from the ceiling cracks
Like a gentle forest mist
Perhaps it was a quake
Subterra knot to come untied
So untied

We lived oh we lived
Like rubber bands round
Yet another street in
Yet another town

There's talk upon the wire
Of a wild coming storm
Pack your covenants
With a lovin' hand
Or don't pack them at all
But we were never ones for signs
This suitcase
Fastened down
With rubber bands

We lived oh we lived
Like ties of tiny strings
Round our fingers
In place of rings

We lived oh we lived
Like rubber bands round
Something borrowed
Something found

© Brendan Bonsack
July 2014

1. Levee
2. Thirteen
3. Aunt Tacita
4. Flannelette Princess
5. Newtown, Jackson and Main
6. Declaration
7. Call it Home
8. Age of Stone (part ii)
9. Something Borrowed, Something Found
10. No Edges

Once Was Water
Released July 2014