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Song of the City

from song of the city by Jacob Goins

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Left the mountains behind;
Into the heat of engines I go,
Into the quick and the paved,
The bright, the noonday.


Left the river behind;
And all my meditations ail me.
I do not invite them,
But still they grieve me,

And oppose the heart and its lifting up,
Straining for the light
Behind the heavens.


And the city it jeers and drives me away;
Away, away! Chorus of horns are blazing behind me, unforgiving,
I do not know which way is out.

I do not belong here.


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But when this is through, can I still find you?
When this is through, will I still have you and your peaceful places?

Though I strive and accuse, I only want you.
And for all my groaning,
I just want you close.

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from song of the city, released February 26, 2020

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Jacob Goins Brasstown, North Carolina

Jacob Goins is a poet who dresses his words in delicate melody, carefully designed. Born and raised in the Appalachians, Jacob fashions folk music that shares the gentleness, the rise and fall, and the golden peacefulness of the North Carolina mountains.

In every humble effort, he strives to make art that doesn’t sing over the quiet, but rather sings with it.
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