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The Sound Of the Wind

from 52 Songs in 52 Weeks: 2012 by James Hersch

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As I drove by the marker on the highway, the small post covered with flowers and a name, I wonder what sad story goes with it. I took that into this week's song. The autumn winds have arrived and the leaves are coming down. Now it's small blizzards of yellow and red on the roadsides and neighborhood streets and outside my studio window.

All this brought me to Number 42.

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Number Forty Two, October 18th, 2012

The Sound Of the Wind


There's a post covered with flowers on the roadside
Marking the place where someone has died
And the leaves blow around
And the story whispers in the sound
Of the wind

There are two names carved inside a heart
In the bus stop bench in front of the mini mart
And the leaves blow around
And the story whispers in the sound of the wind


There's a broken down windmill out in the trees
And a farmhouse in ruins and the ghost of memories
And the leaves blow around
And the story whispers in the sound
Of the wind


We live in a world of heartaches and glories
Safe and high In our observatories
Listen
To the world spin
Around our untold stories


Then shake us from our silent perch
And shed the lie so well rehearsed
As the leaves blow around
And we rise to the sound
Of the wind

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from 52 Songs in 52 Weeks: 2012, released July 15, 2013

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James Hersch Minneapolis, Minnesota

I live on this piece of prairie. I'm passionate and dedicated to writing songs in hopes of singing them for people. I don't think I could continue without both ends of that process. Create then hope. It's here I write songs, and here I wait to sing them for others. ... more

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