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Let Us Meet

from The Cheese Stands Alone by Mark Lint

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This was a poem by Kim Casey Linsenmayer written in the early 90s which I added music to when we started dating in 1994, apparently without actually knowing entirely what the words were about. (Given what the poem actually means, as soon as I sing "Let us close our eyes to meet the ground" the first time, the song should suddenly end, but I love this world enough to want to stay in it a few minutes after that point.)

I recorded Trent Sinclair's drums in 2015, then finally laid down the rest in late 2015, with Eric Schumann sending in the main synth string part that starts in the second verse.

As this was the final piece completed for this album, I'm counting its completion as the album's release date despite my subsequent procrastination and occasional tinkering.

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Let us open our wings in one fluid stroke
With our heads poised just so
And with eyes searching only
The empty horizon

Let our stomachs not rebel
At the vast space below

Without fear
Chests pressed out to meet the rising wind
Let us bow our legs to make the muscles hard

And then in one tremendous rush
Let us thrust our entire selves forward
To meet the streaking daylight

Let us pump our wings to reach the hazy clouds
Let us screech and call
To meet the ragged trees
Let us fold our hands to meet the heavens
Let us close our eyes to meet the ground

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from The Cheese Stands Alone, released December 12, 2015
Poem by Kim Casey Linsenmayer
Music writing, instruments, and recording by Mark Linsenmayer
Keyboard (one of them) by Eric Schumann
Drums (some of them) by Trent Sinclair

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Mark Lint Madison, Wisconsin

Catchy, homespun tunes ranging in style from power pop to folk ballads to alt country, laced with a sense of the absurd.

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