Name: To the Rise
Duration: P00H03M48S
Description: I always wanted the humpty dumpty story to have a moral... If I'm going to take a great fall, I want to have taken a great chance. Fisher folk do not cast to where there is no action. They cast to the rise.

To the Rise

from The Mend by Jason Tyler Burton

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I always wanted the humpty dumpty story to have a moral... If I'm going to take a great fall, I want to have taken a great chance. Fisher folk do not cast to where there is no action. They cast to the rise.

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Can’t you see that I got free
Free of the hook you set in me
But don’t you know that now I’m lost
Lost in the wreckage that I caused
Going free

So bring all your horses and your men
Put me together once again
And I will own these scars I wear
As a badge of hope more than despair

Maybe it’s time for me to climb
Back up on to this wall of mine
Through my head back
My arms up
And rise

Maybe it was the sitting that was the crime
I saw this fisher cast a line
Not to the calm but to the rise
I saw the wonder in his eye

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So play me well
But be gentle on my mouth
Lead me up high
Where all directions feel like south

© 2010 Jason Tyler Burton

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from The Mend, released February 29, 2012
All instruments by Jason Tyler Burton

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Jason Tyler Burton Wyoming

Jason Tyler Burton is a recluse from Kentucky who now makes his home in the least populated county in the least populated state. There in Wyoming, at the foot of the Wind River Mountains, he writes songs that wrestle with the struggles of rural peoples. His stories often tell a novel's worth of story in the format of a song, for which he draws comparisons to Jason Isbell and John Prine. ... more

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