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    1. Tangle of Souls

    From the recording Tangle of Souls (2020)

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    Tangle of Souls

    Scott Cook
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    Bramwell Park - guitar, mandolin, harmony vocals
    Liz Frencham - upright bass, harmony vocals
    Kat Mear - fiddle, harmony vocals
    Pete Fidler - dobro
    Scott Cook - vocal

    Lyrics

    As a kid all I could think about
    Was getting out and running around
    Heard my teachers and my bosses making offers to tie me down
    But the poets and the misfits, the lost and profound
    Were talking like the world’s a big ol’ tangle of souls

    So I set out for the shimmering distance
    Not dressed for the wind and rain
    Unaware that any blessing worth having comes with a burden of pain
    And all the love and all the hurt, the sacred and profane
    Are bundled together in the bittersweet tangle of souls

    The way wound through towns and tenements
    Through deserts and dirty streets
    I struggled to hear a kindred heart in the chorus of concrete
    But by happenstance I chanced upon the ones I needed to meet
    Such a rare thread in this vast tangle of souls

    Between the field of stars above
    And the fields of dead below
    Taking a wayward shot at love
    Giving it all back when we go

    I saw plenty people living with nothing
    And felt grateful for my shoes
    For all the road took from me and all I’ve still got left to lose
    Some nights I swear I hear this whole old world croaking the blues
    Howling the hurt of this tragic tangle of souls

    It’s a fleeting incarnation
    It’s a gift that you can’t keep
    Stardust with a will to live is all there is to me
    Every atom’s borrowed and every heart’s a refugee
    Looking for home in this strange tangle of souls

    Between the field of stars above
    And the fields of dead below
    Taking a wayward shot at love
    Giving it all back when we go

    Some say this world’s an accident
    Just a clockwork running down
    Some talk like it’s a tournament where the cruelest gets the crown
    Seems to me it’s a pilgrimage and every step is hallowed ground
    A walk through fire in a holy tangle of souls

    My brain boggles at the distance
    That brought this song to you
    All the bottlenecks and borders I put my body through
    Hualien City to Haida Gwaii, Katoomba to Kalamazoo
    Wide-eyed wandering through the fathomless tangle of souls

    Between the field of stars above
    And the fields of dead below
    Taking a wayward shot at love
    Giving it all back when we go

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