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By the time I had been living in Oregon for a bit I was deeply longing for the friends, family, and landscape on the east coast, and had realized, fairly spectacularly, that I wasn't a farmer. Maybe a monk, but certainly not a farmer. I wrote this late one night after coming home from a dinner party. Our little cabin was so quiet, and I felt like I could play the guitar pattern for eternity. Some of my friends will probably claim that it feels like I have at times.

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I've chosen my tools again
The bottles, the page, the pen
My old friends the waves, the wind
The moon at night's end

And which one is heaven sent
The thunder or it's best friend
Because the lightning loves silence
More than it will admit

And I've found I've grown hungrier
For old things familiar
Closer are thoughts of home
The farther I roam

With each day a strange one
In a strange land
I'm learning the comforts
Of each stranger's hand

And the night keeps its quietness
Reserved for the loneliest
Sometimes when I'm listening
I hear the night sing

So if we forget the words
To all those old songs we've heard
Remember the melodies
Sometimes that's all that we need

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from Fisher King's Collection, released May 16, 2016
Eric - guitar, voice, and piano
Emily - cello and voice
Dave - organ and voice

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The Orchards were the songwriting project of Pennsylvania native Eric Schwan, based in Portland, ME and featuring a revolving cast of musicians adding orchestral and ambient textures and harmonies to his simple, folk-based songs. They released their LP, "Sing Birds, In Your Shrinking Woods" on Apohadion/Burst & Bloom Records with a final show on September 15, 2019. ... more

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