The Long Line Wander

Instrumental Intro

Verse 1

Cold air moves through the pines

I have walked this ridge since the frost came

No map no lantern no name

The horn calls somewhere below me

Verse 2

Every scale is a doorway

Every doorway a season turning

I bend the note until it splinters

Then let the silence answer back

Chorus

Play me out slow

Play me out slow

Let the long line wander where it wants to go

Play me out slow

Instrumental Break

Verse 3

My hands know the old modes

Dorian Aeolian the blues inside the blues

Wind takes the reed and shakes it

Something older sings through me

Verse 4

Ash falls soft on the summit

Ash falls soft and I keep climbing

Three notes then a hundred

Then nothing but the breath between

Chorus

Play me out slow

Play me out slow

Let the long line wander where it wants to go

Play me out slow

Instrumental Break

Bridge

(Slow now)

(Slow now)

Hold the chord until it opens

(Slow now)

(Slow now)

Hold the chord until it opens wide

Chorus

Play me out slow

Play me out slow

Let the long line wander where it wants to go

Play me out slow

Instrumental Outro

Instrumental Break

Verse 5

Snow gives way beneath the shale

The ridge runs out into a wider dark

I have played until my lips went numb

And still the horn keeps calling me

Verse 6

Modal drift across the valley

One chord held until it turns to weather

I trade the root for something borrowed

Then hand it back a stranger

Chorus

Play me out slow

Play me out slow

Let the long line wander where it wants to go

Play me out slow

Guitar Solo

Verse 7

Blue note buried in the blackness

Blue note burning through the frost

Every phrase a door left open

Every silence paid for twice

Verse 8

Trumpet weather over frozen timber

Tremolo picking like a pulse

The theme returns but never the same way

Nothing here repeats itself

Bridge

(Let it go)

(Let it go)

Loose the shape and let it wander

(Let it go)

(Let it go)

Loose the shape and let it wander on

Instrumental Break

Free Improvisation

Chorus

Play me out slow

Play me out slow

Let the long line wander where it wants to go

Play me out slow

Post-Chorus

(Long line)

(Long line)

Wander wander wander on

(Long line)

(Long line)

Wander wander wander on

Verse 9

Dawn arrives without a verdict

Grey on grey on grey on grey

The last chorus of the mountain

Is a horn that never lands

Instrumental Outro