Stop Singing

by Mount Eerie

From the album: No Flashlight: Songs of the Fulfilled Night

Track 7 of 30 on No Flashlight: Songs of the Fulfilled Night (2005).

Duration: 3:02

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Lyrics for Stop Singing

the possibility that if I stopped clapping my hands in the void I would notice that I can't hold on to things and the possibility that if I stopped using my voice I would notice songs that, all around me, sing looms in weather, lives buried in my days, with all my songs and rhythms going like the darkness surrounding a flame. It's what I don't say with my mouth. It's my mouth open to breathe in. It's open windows. Still, I go on and on describing the shape around the thing I want to but can not name, in song and, though my long life feels busy and full of usefulness and drive, I will sleep through every single dawn and those I see I will not understand though I try I will sing through every single song about the spaces left when we stop singing and I will sing this with longing.

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  2. I Hold Nothing
  3. The Moan
  4. In The Bat's Mouth
  5. No Inside, No Out
  6. (2 Lakes)
  7. Stop Singing
  8. No Flashlight
  9. (2 Mountains)
  10. The Air In The Morning
  11. The Universe Is Shown
  12. What?
  13. How?
  14. No Flashlight
  15. (2 Moons)
  16. I Know No One
  17. I Hold Nothing
  18. The Moan
  19. In The Bat's Mouth
  20. No Inside, No Out
  21. (2 Lakes)
  22. Stop Singing
  23. No Flashlight
  24. (2 Mountains)
  25. The Air In The Morning
  26. The Universe Is Shown
  27. What?
  28. How?
  29. No Flashlight
  30. (2 Moons)