Sunburn

from This Time When It Rained by Eli Greenhoe

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This time when it rained there was no flood -
just a massive screaming silence from above.
No beasts to catch, no two of a kind;
as I recall it was just you and I
sitting in our boat along the shore,
sunburnt by the smile that you wore.

On the Mount of Olives I did sit.
Watched the angels try the fires that they lit.
Burned their little hands down to the bone,
but now that I have learned to be alone
I think I have a plan, I know the score.
I’m sunburnt by the smile that you wore.

Yonder blue is wild and untamed.
Green lions grow the blue sky in their manes.
My mind is aching for an empty lot
or a bathtub full of water for my thoughts.
And growing pains have made my brain so sore
and sunburnt from the smile that you wore.

They said the divine was like a string:
shook with the resonance of each and every-thing.
But I have loved the sound of locust swarms,
of Babel-towers and of lightning storms
so the quiver of a string is still more mild
than a sunburn from your smile.

Archimedes said “this crown ain’t gold”.
The water in the tub barely rose.
But roses must be gold for you and I
who cannot shout “Eureka” at the sky.
Roses must be gold for we are poor -
sunburnt by the smile that you wore.

Caesar marched his army in to Rome
and carved his name on every stone.
Buildings towered up day by day,
but the hourglasses sand fell the other way.
Now Caesar’s lying dead under the floor -
sunburnt by the smile that he wore.

Oh, and when your lips did part my skin did boil
like the red rays of the sun upon the soil.
But living in that soil made me strong
so dying in the sun don’t seem so wrong.
And all that I would need’s to be ignored
sunburnt by the smile that you wore.

This time when it rained there was no flood -
just a massive screaming silence from above.

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from This Time When It Rained, released May 10, 2019
Eli Greenhoe: Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Vocals, Electric Organ, Percussion

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