The Sinking Man

from The Sinking Man // Come On by Joshua Barton

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The Sinking Man came by this way
Took his hat off and made to fade away
I told him then: pull up a chair and stay
All his puke and piss and his chardonnay

The Sinking Man, can't recall his name
It was something long and from far away
Kept his papers all in his wooden leg
Kept his friends in mind, kept his eyebrows raised

There ain't nothing long nor slow like a river
Headed down
Cutting stones
Move the soil to some other world
There are bones all ground to dust down there
Wet dust
Mingled with the sand
And it's sand and dust all left to us
By the ones who lived and died before time
Before we had a word for time
And the dust will just keep rising
The dust will just keep trying
The dust will just keep choking us
And everything we know until we're gone
And who will remember?
And who will remember?
Will anybody see and care to know what we once were?
The serious things we were
The silly things we were before this dust
What we were before dust

The Sinking Man came by this way
Before we were dust

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from The Sinking Man // Come On, released January 22, 2024

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Joshua Barton Lansing, Michigan

Joshua Barton is a singer-songwriter from Lansing, Michigan. He's been finding ways to straddle bleakness and hope since 1999. He has led the shoegaze band Fields of Industry, run the experimental label Arts vs Entertainment, and made a string of brooding acoustic releases, solo and with band Seerstones. ... more

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