Slow Down-Gabriel Kahane

[ti:Slow Down] [ar:Gabriel Kahane] [al:Gabriel Kahane] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Slow Down - Gabriel Kahane [00:14.09]Tarpaulin sailboats and sports [00:17.04]Cars are splayed on [00:18.35] [00:19.05]Everyone's plot of suburban green rayon [00:23.15] [00:23.80]This is the stuff that philosophers pray on [00:28.16] [00:28.69]Dreaming [00:29.55] [00:33.47]She left New York to uncover her feeling [00:37.71] [00:38.43]Deep in the forest she comes to a clearing [00:42.61] [00:43.19]Where spiders and frogs climb [00:45.80]Down from the ceiling [00:47.80]She slows down [00:49.03] [00:52.37]Yeah she slows down [00:57.17] [01:01.01]Well the scene on the sidewalk [01:03.05] [01:03.62]Is grassy green terror [01:05.26] [01:06.23]Everyone smiles as the summer gets fairer [01:10.18] [01:10.77]She can't shake the skin off this [01:13.19]Neon unbearable sky [01:16.16] [01:20.36]And they slow down [01:24.94] [01:28.15]Yeah they slow down [01:33.04] [01:36.33]And see the soldiers smoking cigarettes [01:40.57] [01:42.39]And making bombs and placing bets [01:45.20] [01:47.16]And telling tales of girls who slept [01:50.45]Beside them at home [01:52.15] [02:05.95]In the clearing she takes off her [02:08.56]Skirt and her flip flops [02:10.48] [02:11.16]Wades in the water it grazers her knee tops [02:15.10] [02:15.70]She floats on her back looking [02:18.28]Up at the blue drops of sky [02:22.26] [02:25.17]And she slows down [02:30.06] [02:33.05]Yeah she slows down [02:37.88] [02:41.39]Well she falls asleep [02:43.27]On the creek and the stillness [02:46.69]The spiders and frogs and the [02:49.11]Clearing bear witness [02:51.45]To words dropped like pearls [02:53.62]On the water unnoticed [02:55.55] [02:56.45]Just how deep they go [02:59.47] [03:01.01]And she slows down [03:05.53] [03:08.62]Yeah she slows down [03:13.77] [03:17.13]Yeah she slows down