I woke at 2 in the morning… to a bright new moon smiling down at me… and took a walk down by the mouth of the Red River… I could hardly believe my eyes, rain was falling, in BOK… wow, it’s been a while. It was nice to sit in the rain and think. I haven’t read anything as of late, nor do I intend to, although some words from Anthony Weldon have been ringing in my ears just under the soft hum of the warmoths. I prefer my own words and thoughts this time. It’s been a busy few days, thinking about old “Fool Shame” proverbs from The Court and Character of King James, dead ends, buried coins, new songs and most important as of late, carving the stargazer idol relentlessly into the wee hours of the dark night in Chamber #408. I have a few new characters for the Diamonds Hadder tale but the time is short on the Hadder front. My stargazer commission is takin all my efforts at the moment, but I do see a window very soon where I can return to my Hadder universe. Met with old friends yesterday in the gardens and that was nice, was good to step away from the knife and idol.
I came to the end of a road recently, generally I’ve been traveling in a straight-line forking left and forking right at times but low and behold.. it literally stopped. I thought perhaps it was a trick, as Zabble seems to take joy in my bewilderment of this place, but I soon realized it was in fact simply an end. It happens so I’m told. I made my way through some not so desperate brush and into a clearing where I noticed a fresh path closely hugging the river, I didn’t look back this time. I also left my tattered journal, empty story book shell, and an old coin there as I felt it would better serve the next person on that winding path of broken and lost things. Say what you will, I have learned a thing or two from that path. It’s different this time, I’m different.
The last thing I will say about lost roads. Some things go beyond ignore…. And forever isn’t long enough for some heartless actions and paths.
I’ve been whistling a new tune as I work, it came in the night…. And generally, those are the best tunes I find… perhaps it will see the Hadder project once my idol is completed and I get some fresh new dirt under my feet. Enjoy a few video stills from a stargazers dream.
“The Second Fool”
Once I was blind
Watching lights and chasing shines
Looking for a line
To pull the world closer to me
Oh you’ll see
Before I died
I was catching ashes as they left the fire
To spin them into words I tried
But a fools hope, no
It doesn’t burn up twice
So no, oh no,
The lie is a truth
So go, you should go.. forever
for it’s coming ever coming
No why, oh know why
Must we die so soon.,
The story left the pages kept.. there
And the waves took the rest.. dear
One afternoon
Before the 2nd fool.. oh yeh
Before the 2nd fool..
come the moon
For us all so soon..
till we learn the tune..
oh.. there’s no June
Before the 2nd fool
Once I was tired
Thought ever spell I cast would lift the night
Every dream I had was worth some fight
But the sand underneath
Couldn’t keep the tower right, no more
Try I did, to build it quickly
A foolish kid caught up in foolish tricks see
And why? for the sake of it then
But Bless the sun, for she’s come to warm my sacred beach again
So no, oh no,
The lie is a truth
So go, you should go.. forever more
for it’s coming still ever coming
No why, oh know why
Rest the one, my own mirage
Another chapters done.. but I go on.. and on
Oh, oh, oh..
before the 2nd fool
Before the 2nd fool.. oh yeh
Before the 2nd fool..
come the moon
For us all so soon..
till we learn the truth..
oh.. there’s no June
Before the 2nd fool
Rain out my window, woke me in the night
Months since I heard her out the fire
But the sun, she’s coming soon
New lights and new June’s
For me.. oh.. and for you
So far I came.., Oh what a shame.
Sometime before the second fools rain.
- evermore j
Images:
Doug Weiand - Guitar
Joey Mancaruso - Drums
Kent Hiltz - Bass
John Evermore - Vocals