Misty Morning, Murky Pond

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[Verse 1]
Tea stall steam
Curling in the dawn
Newspaper ink
Staining someone's thumb
Cycle bells
Ring down a broken lane
Fish cart shouts
Cut through the fog and grain

[Chorus]
This small town keeps on breathing slow
Dust on my sandals
River in my soul
Names on the shutters that everybody knows
This small town holds what I can’t let go
(holds what I can’t let go)

[Verse 2]
Schoolyard chalk
On a cracked red wall
Mango leaves
Shake at a distant call
Train horn moans
Past the paddy fields
Old gods watch
From paint that never peels

[Chorus]
This small town keeps on breathing slow
Dust on my sandals
River in my soul
Names on the shutters that everybody knows
This small town holds what I can’t let go
(oh, I can’t let go)

[Bridge]
Power cuts
Sky full of stars
Kerosene light in a jar
Grandma’s tales drifting through the heat
Mud on the floor
Prayer on our feet

[Chorus]
This small town keeps on breathing slow
Dust on my sandals
River in my soul
Names on the shutters that everybody knows
This small town holds what I can’t let go
(holds what I can’t let go)