Mothers

from For Brothers & Forefathers by Johnas & Connelly

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MOTHERS

Saliency is ours
An outward jagged mountain tooth
An open prairie war
That humbled those with flatland views
A rolling sage
At home out of range
A sweeping itch for change
And solitude

Peaks and perils are a twofold act
In loop

A vagrant poet with a storm of words to scrawl
A story teller in a way versicular
A circumnavigator
with sovereign pen and paper
To summarize it all
A nostalgic oracle

To prophesize the past
Chimerical forecast of the things
That have already been
A retrospective map
To shepherd me ahead

And they thought I never would
Find happiness by tramping through
unchartered briar and bramble
A loud upraising and a slanted view

They want prison
and I want answers they can't manifest
A sleepless dissidence

And still the highlands bay
The anchorage the saved
All the homespun
Crazed to be moonstruck days
My mother mountain range

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from For Brothers & Forefathers, released January 3, 2017
Song written, performed, engineered, mixed and mastered by Brandon Johnas and Caitlin Connelly

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Johnas & Connelly Banff, Alberta

Johnas & Connelly is a Rocky Mountain duo rooted in evergreen-fresh folk and small-town splendor. Inspired by canyons, caves, and excruciating break-ups, the pair uses thoughtfully-woven vocal harmonies and seasoned fingerpicking to honestly channel emotion-filled experiences into mindful art. ... more

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