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Breathy Bellows

from Aside by Henry Mansfield

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Morning silence in my coffee cup
Reaching limbs still as the snow clouds dump
Disguising the trees as a quiet wife
They shake like an earthquake survivor and I know that there's life

Beasts are out there breathing
Between my starvation wage sighs
White fur to their feet
All the word creature implies
Lungs topped with song for night skies

I picture afternoons spent in the trees
Squinting at an ornament of strange machines
Ferrying sound to the northern side
Quick here he comes and then scatter to wherever they hide from me

A different world runs through me
A vision through animal eyes
Burrowed underground
Chanting carols till sunrise
I howl, you howl lullabys

For now I'll watch their breath clouds
Filter through branches of pine
Fire up the lift
Greet the morning like an in-law
Wait for the evening to come alive

Can you hear the howls at night?
Echo off the blanket white
Shaking up the pinhole sky
Snow beasts are singing a love song

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from Aside, released July 29, 2016
Henry Mansfield - accordion, vocals, drone
Chris Clark-Johnson - bass
Gus Meyer - drums

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Henry Mansfield Seattle, Washington

Seattle and LA-based anthemic piano rock. The best parts of Ben Folds, Death Cab for Cutie and Slingshot Dakota.

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