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Pale Fire

from Little Sun by Charlie Parr

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I’m driving somewhere out on a highway in New Mexico and I’m tired and not in a hurry and I stopped to watch the sunset and I fell asleep and woke up in time to watch the same sun rising. That was it.

I seen the sunset
For the longest while
At the edge of my sight
It burned in pale fire

But when the sun was gone—the fire burned on

And when the sky was
Finally dark
And the air was quiet
And holy

But when the sun was gone—the fire burned on

I could be anywhere
The only sound is
My scraping footsteps
On the surface of the world

But when the sun was gone—the fire burned on

The ground grew beneath me
I could feel it
Through the soles of my shoes
It was clinging to my skin

But when the sun was gone—the fire burned on

I fell and surrendered
On damp fallen leaves
I stared through the branches
To the sun—climbing

But when the sun was gone—the fire burned on

credits

from Little Sun, released March 22, 2024
Charlie Parr: vocals / guitars / harmonicas
Marisa Anderson: electric guitar
Victor Krummenacher: electric bass / upright bass / bass VI
Andrew Borger: drums / percussion
Asher Fulero: piano / Hammond / keyboard
Anna Tivel: backing vocals

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Charlie Parr Duluth, Minnesota

"Parr is scruffy and uncomfortable looking, with a longish beard and balding head. He dropped out of high school in the 1980s, but he looks older than that. He's pathologically deadpan in his delivery of in between song banter. The crowd really enjoyed his depressingly hilarious dead cat story. He never smiles." - Lucy Steigerwald

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