Member Since: 12/14/2005
Band Website: spotlessrecords.com/eriklarson/roses
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Do Not Stand At My Grave and WeepDo not stand at my grave and weep
I am not there.I do not sleep.
I am a thousand winds that blow.
I am the diamond glints on snow.
I am the sunlight on ripened grain.
I am the gentle autumn rain.
When you awaken in the morning's hush
I am the swift uplifting rush
Of quiet birds in circled flight.
I am the soft stars that shine at night.
Do not stand at my grave and cry;
I am not there, I did not die.
He Wishes For The Cloths Of HeavenHad I the heavens' embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and the half-light,
I would spread the cloths under your feet:
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
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ResignationThere is no flock, however watched and tended,
But one dead lamb is there!
There is no fireside,
howsoe'er defended,
But has one vacant chair!The air is full of farewells to the dying,
And mournings for the dead;
The heart of Rachel, for her children crying,
Will not be comforted!Let us be patient! These severe afflictions
Not from the ground arise,
But oftentimes celestial benedictions
Assume this dark disguise.We see but dimly through the mists
and vapors;
Amid these earthly damps
What seem to us but sad,
funereal tapers
May be heaven's distant lamps.There is no Death! What seems
so is transition;
This life of mortal breath
Is but a suburb of the life elysian,
Whose portal we call Death.Erik Larson and his Invisible Cat.
The sunlight on the garden
Hardens and grows cold,
We cannot cage the minute
Within its nets of gold;
When all is told
We cannot beg for pardon.Our freedom as free lances
Advances towards its end;
The earth compels, upon it
Sonnets and birds descend;
And soon, my friend,
We shall have no time for dances.The sky was good for flying
Defying the church bells
And every evil iron
Siren and what it tells:
The earth compels,
We are dying, Egypt, dyingAnd not expecting pardon,
Hardened in heart anew,
But glad to have sat under
Thunder and rain with you,
And grateful too
For sunlight on the garden.The Taming of HorsesSilent pools where the
waterfalls drain so sad
as they've fallen pierced
hands clasp over heart
looks of despair; distraught; anguish
falling upon princesses of wintry night
the dazzles showering fall
upon the luminescence of
a minor moon
places
dark gardens wild
where perils lurk unbounded
freedom meaning danger
and a stillness underneath
the yellow mountains give
way to the greens
pink flowers and we trot
yet we're free
muscles strong knit furrowed
'neath the shining black stallion
coats on for rain
for cold february winds
which whistle lonely dirges
in minor chords of meloncholy
and o so far from here
the child no longer screams
for mother's milk in breast
weaned, calmed, lines of silver
trace a woven dress of mood down
to blues and earth brown
sweet surrender landslide no more
tears spill from princess' eyes
for the taming of horses has become.
Influences: Jason Upton, Pedro the Lion, Dashboard Confessional, The Postal Service, Passion, Kevin Prosch, Dido, Weezer, Dwayne Roberts, Misty Edwards, Shane and Shane, Sheltershed, Bach, Standby, Blaster the Rocketboy, Inches Too Short, A Sunken Ship Irony, A Cadence of Sorts, Norma Jean, Keith Green, Rancid, The Supertones, Skillet, Anti-Flag, Daft Punk, Deliriou5?, Kirk Bennet, Radiohead, Smashing Pumpkins, Sigur Ros, The Misfits, Further Seems Forever, Zao, Unashamed, Johnny Cash, Sunny Grey, Cellofiend, Third Day, Zoegirl, The Temper Tantrums, The White Stripes, Murder City Devils, Clorox Girls, The Ghastly Ones, The Lively Ones, Thee Letting Forth of Fire, The Ramones, Danzig, Nirvana, Blink-182, Modest Mouse, The Sex Pistols, Bright Eyes, Dead Kennedys, Simon and Garfunkel, The Beatles, Jazz and Blues, Randy Travis, Pink Floyd, G.G. Allin, MxPx, Green Day, The Cranberries, Tori Amos, R.E.M., Stevie Ray Vaughn, Hymns, Nine Inch Nails, Anthrax, Metallica, Modern Machines, 100 Portraits and Waterdeep, The Chariot, Beethoven, Mozart, and all things such as purring kittens, waterfalls, burning man, flying shapes, pyramids, con science damar, yomakvante, shy-ann, forever north, the Tearjerkers, Deconformity, Hello Emma Jean, Zero Faith, KMFDM, rage against the machine, Laver, The Watchmen, The Beastie boys, Jimi Hendrix, jane's addiction..
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-Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love [is] strong as death; jealousy [is] cruel as the grave: the coals thereof [are] coals of fire, [which hath a] most vehement flame.ELECTED Silence, sing to me
And beat upon my whorlèd ear,
Pipe me to pastures still and be
The music that I care to hear.
Shape nothing, lips; be lovely-dumb: 5
It is the shut, the curfew sent
From there where all surrenders come
Which only makes you eloquent.
Be shellèd, eyes, with double dark
And find the uncreated light: 10
This ruck and reel which you remark
Coils, keeps, and teases simple sight.
Palate, the hutch of tasty lust,
Desire not to be rinsed with wine:
The can must be so sweet, the crust 15
So fresh that come in fasts divine!
Nostrils, your careless breath that spend
Upon the stir and keep of pride,
What relish shall the censers send
Along the sanctuary side! 20
O feel-of-primrose hands, O feet
That want the yield of plushy sward,
But you shall walk the golden street
And you unhouse and house the Lord.
And, Poverty, be thou the bride 25
And now the marriage feast begun,
And lily-coloured clothes provide
Your spouse not laboured-at nor spun.
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Record Label: Spotless Records www.spotlessrecords.com
Type of Label: Indie