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about
This song describes a dream within a dream within a dream.
I loved exploring the Wissahickon on my bike when I lived in Philadelphia, PA.
From Wikipedia:
In 1694, Johannes Kelpius arrived in Philadelphia with a group of like-minded German Pietists to live in the valley of the Wissahickon Creek
They formed a monastic community and became known as the Hermits or Mystics of the Wissahickon. Kelpius was a musician, writer, and occultist. He frequently meditated (some believe in a cave—the Cave of Kelpius) along the banks of the Wissahickon and awaited the end of the world, which was expected in 1694.
No sign or revelation accompanied that year, but the faithful continued to live in celibacy by the stream, searching the stars and hoping for the end. Kelpius died in 1708 and the group disbanded some time thereafter. At least two from the original group continued as hermits along the Wissahickon into the 1740s.
Other religious groups were also associated with the Wissahickon: On Christmas Day in 1723 the first congregation of the Church of the Brethren in America – often called Dunkard Brethren – baptized several new members in the stream.
Around 1747 an individual with connections to the Dunkards built a stone house, used for church retreats, which still stands today, and is known as The Monastery, a remaining witness to the Wissahickon's days as an isolated religious refuge.
lyrics
A hermit thrush told me 'bout the hooting owls’ tricks!
They want to take you back to their Pennsylvania cricks.
Although they’re so far from your new life that you now know,
Your important meeting, it was canceled, so you go.
The dandelion daylight dies.
You catch a dozen fireflies.
A red delicious tastes like fall.
Well, it’s all growing dark,
Close your eyes.
Sleep beside the Wissahickon
If you’re not chicken;
Good enough for any Wiccan
To dip their toes in.
From your lips escapes a prayer;
Do you believe in God?
As you are, she sees you there.
She’s nodding as you nod.
Streams of consciousness
Show what you suppress.
Lost are all the others;
You have found yourself at last,
Baptized by the Brothers
As you wade into the past.
Psalms and prophecies
Set your heart at ease.
Hold a stone. Then throw it.
When it plunks, it scares a fish
Who darts away below it;
Still the ripple grants your wish.
God breathes in and puffs out the light;
The feeling of Night.
Sounds around astound you as you stumble to your feet;
"Bird song" and "Goose honk" and "Bird song" and tweet.
Sunlight warms the breeze,
Touching through the trees.
Jarred awake, you crawl aboard
Your gasping SEPTA bus.
Thinking back on where you snored,
You look back and smile at us.
Sleep beside the Wissahickon
If you’re not chicken;
Good enough for any Wiccan
To dip their toes in.
credits
from Out of the Nowhere. Into the Here.,
track released March 22, 2024
Stephen: Music, Lyrics, Arrangements, Voice, Guitar, Pipe Organ, Glockenspiel
Bass Clarinet, Tenor Sax, Flute: Stephen Sanborn
Cello: Jordan Gunn
Clarinet: Maya Yokanovich
Oboe: JJ Silvey
Viola: Alex McLaughlin
Violin: Tin Yan Lee, Jonathan Talbott
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