Lyrics
The night-blooming cereus on Sister Eklund's porch
Was a rumor we chased past the temple grounds.
Found your hand in the dark, the smell of cold vinyl
On the bench seat of your father's hand-me-down.
[Chorus]
And oh, the unearned grace of the parking lot lights,
I didn't know I was alive.
[Verse 2]
July of '08, the cheatgrass was breathing.
You said, "The veil is thin here," and then you coughed.
They paved it all over for Sunday overflow,
A perennial wound, gone soft.
[Chorus]
And oh, the unearned grace of the parking lot lights,
I didn't know I was alive.
[Bridge]
Did the root rot of leaving start growing back then?
A dormant seed in the ammonite.
[Outro]
The asphalt is warm. And it’s holding the light.
About Almanac of June
Asaariah Collett grew up a stonemason's son in Manti, Utah, learning to play Mormon hymns on his great-grandfather's banjo. At sixteen, his world fractured when his older brother was excommunicated. This rupture became the quiet center of his work as Almanac of June, crafting intricate chamber-folk about the architecture of faith and the ghosts it leaves behind. The songs were written in the back…
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