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Good Brother

from Parakeetfishhead by Brian Cutean QTN

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QTN: guitar and voice
Robert Vignaud: upright bass
Gene Elders: violin
Scott Wade: djembe and percussion

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GOOD BROTHER
(for Malcolm Smith)

He's a good brother
his eyes are like a whirlpool
like a mountainhotspring retreat
to soak and soothe your soul

He's a trust feeling
his heart's been changed by lightning
now he takes his place in the circle
and tends a sacred fire
He listens to the thunder rage
western in the wind
His words are few and chosen well
I see the moonlight on his violin

He's an old soldier
his eyes have seen the glory
and the fury and the thunder
never shook his wonder
In the space where sound is light and heat
where moon is pulled by ocean
coverging with a restless urge
in a singular devotion...

He's a gypsy brother
his fingers fly right through the music
in the aching of every longing
he opens the only knowing

He's a sky pilot
he's got his finger on the button
like a wild tailor cuttin'
it out of whole cloth

And if the river rises,
spilling swift in overflowing,
he might just jump in and ride the drift
not even knowing where he's going
And if the river rises,
spilling swift in overflowing,
he'll jump in just to ride the drift
not even knowing where he's going
gypsy, jump in and ride the drift
not even knowing where you're going...

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from Parakeetfishhead, released June 21, 1999

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Brian Cutean QTN Oregon

Brian Cutean/QTN, Oregon songpoet and wordsmith musician, writes songs with offbeat and touching lyrical observations on the socialography of the human condition. He has performed with spirit and whimsy all over these United States for many years.

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