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A letter to the lonely hunter

from I Too Carry Such Grey Light by Ian Miles

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Dear Hunter,
Go to sleep in your pine
As lonely as my bones
are marching slow.
Are you a muscle in my chest
or just a wild thing with no home
Dragging me along?

Hunter, while you're listening
may I ask another question?
how does it feel to have control?
If there are rivers underground
and there are rivers inside me
which should I attempt to sail
if ever I should need escape the ghost
haunting my skin
but he's the only one I have
I share him with someone else
he's my miscarried son.
Oh hunter I know you know.
Let's leave the forest for the trees.
Oh hunter I know you know
let's leave the forest for the hunting
and sleep in the pine.

Oh hunter I know it hurts
but alone is how we came,
and hunter I know it hurts
I'll keep you warm if you keep me alive.

Oh Hunter, when we were young,
we used to talk about how heavy things could be.
Oh Hunter, when we were young,
we used to talk about how empty things could be.

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from I Too Carry Such Grey Light, released February 1, 2012

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Ian Miles Spokane

Ian Miles is an independent singer-songwriter based out of Spokane, WA.
His Music has been described and "a little cool and a little weird – in a good way" and "very story-telling".
Sometimes mellow and bittersweet; a songbird at your window sill and at other times a thunderous full-throated roar of emotive stomping and hollering like a wild preacher of the end-times!
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