Name: Trumpet
Duration: P00H03M50S
Description: This song is about remembering the tune inside all of us that we sometimes forget to hum, without our dreams we are silent choirs and with rusted instruments on street corners disregarded as vagrants.

Trumpet

from Songs From The City by Ian Miles

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This song is about remembering the tune inside all of us that we sometimes forget to hum, without our dreams we are silent choirs and with rusted instruments on street corners disregarded as vagrants.

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Forced to the trees
the orange faced choir
with pale and failing voices
huddle round the campfire
to hum low like machines
and recall when they
could sing in the light

I want to see the desert
I want to see the doors of Boston
I wish my tongue was worth more
than a trumpet played for the first time

there was a time before
any of us knew they were there
as apparent as a shadow
but as important as the sun
they sang the soundtrack to our days
the only reward: our bootmark
for we cast no coins
we just walk by
goodbye, goodbye, goodbye

I want to see the train smoke
I want to kneel to new altars
I want to raise my bones like hands to the sky
I want to see the desert
I want to see the parthenon
I want to feel the power of an unknowable spirit
because right now I can't tell a storm from a star
and everyday I have to ask where we are
and your voice sounds better
than a trumpet played for the first time
I mean really played, really played.

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from Songs From The City, released March 28, 2010
Music by Ian Miles and The City We Live In, Performed by Ian Miles

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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! ... more

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