Eternity too Soon (​“​Swing and Turn Jubilee” Reprise)

from Murmurations by Scott Ezell

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Eternity too Soon

swing a meathook swing some bread
swing your lifetime till you’re dead

swing your tongue swing your sex
howl like a tyrannosaurus rex

colonize a fishbowl colonize a cage
swing on a strand of hope through our cities of atomic rage

swing your golf and tennis clubs
armchair violence married to opiate love

swing your freeway engine speed
swing your love and death and sex and lust and need and seeds

swing your satin swing your lace
carve new stars and eyes into your face

swing your lover by her thighs
sink and drown in her until she sighs

swing your tongue into your love
lick and drink from her treasure trove


fuck running through life like it’s a steeplechase
fuck all the prison bars holding you in place

fuck your mortgage fuck your car
fuck the imperatives of perpetual war

swing with joy and swing with dread
why not swing with joy as long as you’re not dead

you’ll be dust and ashes soon
why not swing your heart like a feather to touch the sky the earth the sea the moon

the song of a loon a pretty girl’s pantaloons
a dirty cartoon a cockstroke too soon
a full spittoon William Faulkner’s favorite octoroon
a rose with all it’s thorns in bloom
a weeping groom a sweeping broom
all of our incipient doom
an ex-lover’s womb and a broken loom
and a bomb-blast boom, and a bombast bloom…


I want to meet you in an empty room
I just want to see you in an empty crater of the moon
but eternity always comes too soon
come to me baby we hold the ocean between us in a spoon
the ocean swings between us in a spoon
my breath for your breath and we’ll hold them between us in a blue balloon

eternity always comes too soon
let my heart beat next to your heart while the cherry blossoms are still in bloom
eternity always comes too soon
let my heart beat next to your heart while we’re both still in bloom

eternity always comes too soon
let my heart beat next to your heart
I want my heart to beat next to your heart
while we’re both still in bloom

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This song is based on a traditional folk song, Swing and Turn, Jubilee:

It's all out on the old railroad,
It's all out on the sea,
All out on the old railroad,
Far as I can see.

Swing and turn, Jubilee,
Live and learn, Jubilee.

Hardest work I ever done,
Workin' on the farm,
Easiest work I ever done,
Swingin' my true love's arm.

Swing and turn, Jubilee,
Live and learn, Jubilee.

If I had a needle and thread,
As fine as I could sew,
I'd sew my true love to my side
And down this creek I'd go.

Swing and turn, Jubilee,
Live and learn, Jubilee.

If I had no horese to ride,
I'd be found a-crawlin'
Up and down this rocky road
Lookin' for my darlin'.

Some will come on a Sat'day night,
Some will come on Sunday;
If you give 'em half a chance
They'll be back on Monday.

Swing and turn, Jubilee,
Live and learn, Jubilee.

I won't have no widder man
Neither will my cousin,
You can get such stuff as that
For fifteen cents a dozen.

Swing and turn, Jubilee,
Live and learn, Jubilee.

Coffee grows on a white oak tree,
Sugar runs in brandy,
Girls are sweet as a lump of gold,
Boys as sweet as candy.

Swing and turn, Jubilee,
Live and learn, Jubilee.

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from Murmurations, released March 20, 2017

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Scott Ezell is a Pacific Rim writer and multi-genre artist with a background in Asia, border zones, and indigenous peoples. His music spans folk, ambient, and experimental styles.

www.scottezell.com

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