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Black Sulphur Spring

by Bob Drake

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1.
You know how whenever you’re tramping around in a marsh, it seems you always stumble across a cryptic manuscript, written on unknown paper. Oh look, here is one! I found it myself. I'll read it to you... It sure did cause a big commotion when they found them funny pawprints down by the marsh. Then there came then scientist folks with all of their fancy book learnin’ and chemicals and measuring machines, they never found a thing and packed up. I smiled and waved as they left and I never said nothin’, but I coulda told them everything about them funny pawprints. I like to come out here at night and think about what’s goin’ on beyond the marsh and know that one day I will join them maybe it will even be tonight! And that’s it, it comes to an abrupt ending right there with the letters a, r, r ,r g, dot, dot, dot, and a sort of...burned mark.
2.
When you finally said you would be going back to your place beyond the sky you promised to leave us something to remember you by. We were afraid you would and that’s no lie. We vainly hoped it would be somehow innocuous, an alien plant or statuette, something we could make excuses for when the neighbours began to ferret. But no - you left a monstrous robot with diabolical intent: the disintegration of space and time on Earth, beginning here, in my basement... Its influence is propagating the way you knew it would. Observe the increase of mutations all around the neighbourhood.
3.
Oh you got lots of spots and they’re every colour I’ve ever seen and some that I hadn’t. Shining on your polychromatically rainbow fluorescent fur off both ends of the spectrum. You got a lot of spots spots nothing else has got you got a lot of spots! Pointillistic paintings got dots but your spots... oh they’re really the best and until I got you I’ll never rest I love you and your spots!
4.
In a dry and stony gulch adjacent to the abandoned track there bubbles a black sulphurous spring no living thing partakes of it or even comes too near and on its surface is a film of red froth. The situation round the spring, while certainly unique, has led to some wild speculation. The mineral deposits building up around the edge take on frequently remarkable shapes suggesting intervention by unknown intelligence in the very stones, or from underground, or from beyond, but you and I know that’s just superstition there’s a rational explanation for it all. Oh I wish someone would explain it right now...please, can someone...hey who are you, where’d you come from? I HAVE COME FROM BEYOND TO FULLFILL YOUR WISH. NOW GIMME THAT GUITAR, LEMME EXPLAIN, LIKE THIS.... Thanks, you may go now, but that didn’t really answer the question. Oh wait a sec...oh..too late. Gone....as mysteriously as he had come. I shoulda gotten his address. Do they have those in the beyond? (YES...BUT NOT AS YOU KNOW THEM...)

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Four songs featuring only guitar and voice, written and recorded late July-early August 2016. The wavs are 24 bit for those of you who want best quality.

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released August 7, 2016

Written, performed and recorded by Bob Drake.

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