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Sentences Of Disbelief

from So Much Hummus For A Day by Eric Petzoldt

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Yesterday I wrote a new song,
I wonder: Did you guess?
I held the bottle up and down
- a refugee's full time blast.
Man, what did we count?
Oh girls, what did we count?
On the empty stage is calling
A person I didn't see
For some time
Here on the scene.

She pulls something out of what she says
It must owe to a Lord in Perth.
I immediately recall a song.
Listen to it, it's quite worth.
Oh all the things,
Oh all the things I thought you were.
"No", she says, "it's not alright
For you to stay any longer
At this place
Instead you want to confront us."

So I packed my stuff and I took it home
To mother earth we all embrace.
There I'm living for a couple of years
- no heat, no hills, no haze.
Think of what there was:
A life I could retell.
And now fetch that storybook
By the eighteen-years old son,
Who's name was
Pedro Antonio de Alarcón.

Gil Gil was a man
Not like you and me at all.
There was misfortune and pain and love
And poison and a call.
Time and space. He watched.
Insight. Yes, he watched.
The death he took him by the hand,
Said 'Man, let it go,
Because all your life
Was set by the here and now.“

Like Gil Gil I was not aware
Of what was happening and what was not,
But I'm sure my life was truth and love
In every single part I got.
Oh, Lord, I can affirm.
It was right and good. It was.
I didn't see him lately,
But tell him I do not agree
With his "why" and "how" and "when" and "where":
His sentences of disbelief.

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from So Much Hummus For A Day, released July 25, 2016

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Improviser-composer-songwriter Eric Petzoldt is a musician and scholar, who interrogates the guitar and saxophone in various formats and contexts in Europe and North Africa.

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