Erik Bleich - Prairie Skyline

from In Basements: In Isolation Vol 1 by In Basements

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A tale of death and resilience, set in a post-apocalyptic spaghetti-western in rural Manitoba.

I found the keyboard at a Salvation Army store a while back, and much of this piece was built out of improvised sections I strung together, figuring out the landscape as I got deeper into it. Much like the narrator of the song. It's recorded entirely from the little dip in my couch that I tend to fall into whether I'm writing alone or entertaining guests. And I haven't much left it since I went into isolation on Sunday.

FUN FACT: The couch used to belong to the guitarist Liona Boyd. I've never met her and I'm not sure what she did to break it in this way, but I've found a home in it. And perhaps the image of her clinging to a spanish guitar while riding a white horse, bareback through a field of daisies was inspiration in some way. One can never really know these things. But I'll dedicated it to her image, anyway.

lyrics

Don't you step into the rabbit hole
For if you bust a leg
We'll have no choice except to put you down.
In the prairie skyline paradise
Many miles from Winnipeg
You'll rest beneath a quiet, unmarked mound.

The world it will go on
Whether you are here or not
So let it go.
Leave it as you came
Can't take your fortune or your fame
So let it go.

Let it go.

Pay no mind to the rattlesnakes
With whom you share a bed
They're only looking out just for their own.
In the quiet, aching twilight
When your eyes are growing red
Fading with the distant life you know.

And the world it will go on
Whether you are here or not
So let it go.
Leave it as you came
No guarantee you'll leave a name
When you go.

So let it go.

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from In Basements: In Isolation Vol 1, released March 20, 2020
Written, Performed & Recorded by Erik Bleich

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