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lyrics

My voice was caught in the stairway's echo
My thoughts were caught back home
Stratified
Canonized
Alone, with a ghost

Of a lover, an ancient sufferer
I’ve fallen from place too soon
But traffic won’t stop
And mortar won’t halt
And the brick that we built would fall

With the snowflakes
That drift through your head
That soaked your midwestern skin again
As I ran a circle, and prayed for April
I’m frozen, and I’m giving in

To when I did no wrong
And ivy stopped scribing up your crooked walls
When propane stung
And my heart was rung
In knowing this is what I’d become

I’m longing to leave you alone
I’m longing to leave you alone
But I can’t bear to leave you
And I can only see you
Under a salamander’s moon

Tell me what brought the bottles to breaking
There are shards in my soles, and sorrow ain’t shaking
But breath condensed
And thoughts sublimed
With my windows fogged from the time

The creek ran dry
We carved our initials with a knife
In the quartz on your dresser
Shining in amber
The sunlight expelled my mind

To the dread of the huddling winter
Your pipes frozen solid and your lakes grown splintered
In the ice, and the pressure of the ruptured water
In a 70 degree November

I waited, I can’t say for what
I was caught in retrograde’s clutch
We were piled in leaves
I could barely breathe
With you there next to me

I’m longing to leave you alone
I’m longing to leave you alone
But I can’t bear to leave you
And I can only see you
Under a salamander's moon

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from Even in Absence, released August 21, 2020

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Monte Pride Meridian Charter Township, Michigan

Monte Pride is a Michigan-born and based singer-songwriter and fingerstyle guitarist whose music recalls the delicate vocals of Simon & Garfunkel, with guitar-work reminiscent of The Tallest Man On Earth and early Joni Mitchell. Paired with electric, ambient soundscapes, he blends haunting melodies with vivid lyricism to create lush, experimental folk songs. ... more

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