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Live the Crossroads

from CelloWoman by Mudsong

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In swift succession, her thoughts light on the dying, luminous red leaf of the maple tree. The 10-year-old with his newly cut skin. The song of the swan.

Bowing, bowing, bowing, bowing, bowing, bowing over these collisions, this anguish that lacerates with joy, she bleeds. Not light, Not blood. She bleeds song.

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Will you live the crossroads? Let be born what’s strung here? Will you bear the taught pull of these opposite ears? Resist the keening for letting one down? Learn to love and tune each. Let their one song be sound.

Lay down these chords from
each end of the whole.
Open your glistening heart.
It seeks this rock and roll.
Stretch taught your soul.

If you hear the sacred but deny the profane— See what’s sinnin’ on somedays and Sundays praise the Name. You’ll stand divided where no house can stand. It’s when you’re crossed between them that you’ll live Promised Land.


Let their rhythm’s guide you to the union you seek. Blind your ears from hearing thru a tribalist creed. Let those scales slide down. Baby, drop your fear. You’ll pulse the backbeat of what you’re longing to hear.


You’ll know fulfillment— you’re not thissing for that; when you honor what’s good in both the good and the bad. Only at the crossroads will you hear your soul. Standing here is where you let what’s ugly be whole.

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from CelloWoman, released June 5, 2021

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Mudsong Bemidji, Minnesota

Mudsong crafts stories that give voice to our breaking human hearts. Thomas King said, “The truth about stories is that’s all we are."  The truth about Mudsong is songstories are all we are. Original stories. Soulful songs. Crafted from the sloppy mess of life? That's what we do. Our evenings open on the hearthfire of the bass guitar, shimmy through the saxophone, and linger over heart and soul. ... more

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