Two Friends Take a Bow for the Record

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Simon Joyner

Simon Joyner (born 1971) is a singer-songwriter from Omaha, Nebraska, United States. Considered by some[citation needed] to be the forefather of the burgeoning Omaha music scene[citation needed], he has profoundly influenced the music of Bright Eyes. Joyner also collaborated with John Darnielle, of The Mountain Goats, and Beck listed Joyner in his top 10 albums when asked by Rolling Stone. He is also famous for the so called "Peel Incident," when famous British DJ John Peel played his album The Cowardly Traveller Pays His Toll from beginning to end on air. Joyner is named after Paul Simon. more »

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Two Friends Take A Bow For The Record

Perhaps we were cut out of the same cloth or cardboard
Or maybe you were carved out of soap, and I, out of driftwood
Maybe we’ve got nothing in common but a sorrow withstood
by distance and devotion

My eyes belong to shapes that travel at light speed going nowhere
across the screen of my dreams, straight out into the frozen thin air
But if you’ve seen one blow by, you’ve surely lost a dozen somewhere—
It’s a crutch that ain’t much for leaning

Through my window, through the trees, there is a train about to leave me yearning 
with a whistle to stop my heart and coal for burning
the four loose chambers while the wheels continue turning
and slipping through my fingers

So let’s drink a little wine while we can
Fill our glasses until they spill and say, Amen
Come on, brothers, go on and cup your hands
We’ll say, goodbye, and let it end

I’ve been trying to recall the details of the Fall, from the apple
to the sons of those exiled traced through to the burial
of one single brother who was slain by the other and the evil
that spilled into the mud where there once was a garden

I thought perhaps you caught your death, you wandered and vanished
I thought maybe into the vast abyss without so much as a compass
But you returned just in time to do a little more damage
like a drum roll at the gallows

Now the sky is full of flames that burn and then rain only ashes
and the thunder sounds tame compared to the heart when it crashes
against solemn sleep while a silhouette creeps down your lashes
and the hallways fill up with laughter

So let’s drink a little wine while we can
Fill our glasses until they spill and say, Amen
Come on, brothers, go on and cup your hands
We’ll say, goodbye, and let it end

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