In the blue room light
while the crickets deciphered the code of every dawn
I told you that I could inform you when you were a ghost
I listened to the spiders -- strangled the webs in the corners
I heard the leaves brushing and murmuring secrets against each other
I heard a distant wine laugh
I told you that before I'd let you wander with that lightness, the world
and maybe I would find out what obsesses you without asking you.
I'm just a stranger but I could inform you
and I can hum a tune for you to dance to
in the blue room light
it seemed I was talking to myself
confused like a dream
humming a tune the floor drank from some old leaky drip
you answered with the silence that only ghosts speak
and disappeared and disappeared and disappeared
by Guadalupe Galván
credits
from Won't Kiss Any Saint,
released January 31, 2024
Guadalupe Galván (lyrics)
Jerry Gordon (guitar, then voice)
Improviser and composer Lara Alarcón has created an experimental opus rife with moments of wildly free jazz and lovely melodic passages. Bandcamp New & Notable Oct 28, 2021