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The Dark Days of Wonder

from Spencer Maybe Live EP by Spencer Maybe

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I started leading songwriting workshops out in Goa and this song came from one of the techniques I was teaching my students. I decided to do it along with them and this song poured out of me. I've almost no idea where it came from, it's like dreaming, how do we do that? We write it, act it, film it, play all of the characters, all while we are supposedly asleep, how magical we are. This does seem like a fitting song of this weird time that we find ourselves living through, dark yet fancinating.

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Faltering narcissistic cream-filled tower tombed gates
Keys have long since lost their willingness to be turned
Found or even replaced
Closed as closed can willingness be
Ah to be seen
In these dark days of wonder

The merry mocking turn-key lovers hand blitzed between
Strong white pillars hovering close to nowhere shocked white
Shotgun wedding meme you smiled you talked
Forever in whispered mocking tones
Saying 'I do'
To these dearest dark days of wonder

Rich red Runcorn rapacious rumblings tie to toe
Clipped untied unmoored unmasked uncertain now away go
Away to the far-flung shored
The wild wet windswept reaches that cling
To heavens dark days of wonder

Forever roaming ranging out to the seas
That never had the strength of fortune to believe
Which was ever one and one was all it could ever be
Stripped hardy naked
In the dark days of wonder

So now we'll go a wander down crushed-felled deforest roads
These lovelorn now lost lungs of our forests know
What it's like to be torn ripped apart in the pursuit of a quick buck
Which now sums up
These dark days of wonder

The clearest uncongested waters rise and break forth
Through dams of unspoken lies it's seen as heresy to ask
The question I know you think you know the answer to
Well now you know you have no clue
To these dark days of wonder

Pride greed wrath sloth lust and envy
Curses spill down on faith hope and charity
Prudence and justice temperance and courage
Has gone to hell in a handcart
In these dark days of wonder

Deep down shards of splintered glass continue to forever shatter
Reveal a message in a song that's meaning never mattered
Sharp intoned be drowned be moaned be forever unshown
Is this what you hoped it would be
In those dark days of wonder
Is this what you saw it would be?
In those dark days of wonder
Is that what you prayed it would be
In these dark days of
Wonder

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from Spencer Maybe Live EP, released December 29, 2020

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Spencer Maybe Lagos, Portugal

Musician, songwriter, storyteller.

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