Dusty Trees

from Floodplain (2000) by Shaun Belcher

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Played with far greater facility by Steve Roberts on the Trailer Star tribute 'Moon Over The Downs' in 2003 but here in all its unpolished charm.....

At the time I thought it was about 'The End of Nature' as in Bill McKIbben book but in retrospect it was about a broken heart and a woman who disappeared in her canoe one day and never came back...

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DUSTY TREES

Hail in the ditches, ice on the tyres,
We gotta find another road out of here,
This way there's nothing but weeds and briars,
We're tangled up in a past we cannot clear,

Can't see nothing but dusty trees,
All around me, nothing but dusty trees.

There's no new crop in the far field,
There's no more walking through the harvest sheaves,
Our river's dead, nothing left to give,
A sunken barge is breaking up in the reeds,

Above the oily reeds,nothing but dusty trees,

All around me nothing but dusty trees.

Blood on your finger, a hook in your heart,
When you leave here you'll never look back,
Because you've lost your compass, lost the path
And the maps you bought are falling apart.

When the sun goes down you can feel the dark,
Pouring down through these dusty trees.

Por Ana Fortun Garrido

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from Floodplain (2000), released January 1, 2000

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Shaun Belcher Nottingham, UK

If you’ve ever dreamt of Daniel Johnston doing an impression of Conor Oberst singing Jeff Tweedy songs,
then you must listen to this.

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