You Swan, Go On

The latest song to earn the instant vintage mantel in my heart is a very short acoustic jam called You Swan, Go On by Phil Elvrum's (or Elverum) Mount Eerie. On the actual recording, appearing on the newest Mount Eerie release, Lost Wisdom, has accompaniment from his co-worker, Julie Doiron (of Erik's Trip, Phil's favorite group I read somewhere). This song exemplifies brevity. That said, I don't want to taint it with my rambling. I have a video of Phil Elvrum performing it live and the lyrics below. Absorb, Enjoy, Dissolve.



As good as I could possibly imagine my life getting, it did
After I met you
The way you reached inside my chest and pulled out things and sent them off in breaths blew
And as good as it got with all the layers peeling off, and though I writhed
I could not upset you
With your hand down my throat you held on to my heart and pumped blood through

And then "it's time to go" you said, "it's time to go out
You little gray goose
Get out from under my wing" you said "you swan, go on, go out, you're turned loose"

oh so it's over
oh so we died
oh so your hand on my heart pumping blood went limp and oh, I fly
Oh swan inside.