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The Forest's Call

from In The Skin Of A Man by Tony Farris

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Combine a late night, some Poe, a squeaky floor, and a bit of imagination and here you go!

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I hear the voices from the floorboards
Ask what lies beyond the door
Is it the night sky I wonder,
Or the sun I once stood for
Can you hear the winds blowing,
Rustling through my brothers branch
Can you hear their cries as we do
Can you hear them call us back

(Chorus)
Can you hear the forest's call?
Can you hear their voice at all?

Oh, now I'm a man of reason
No, these floors, they do not speak
There's no voices down beneath me
Calling out to be set free
Yet the words keep on ringing
Like shots within my head
And who am I to reason
What's alive, and what is dead

Chorus

Now I ripped up every nail
And tie that held them down
And I tore up every board
And hunk of wood that I have found
And I took them to the water
Threw them in one by one
trying to drown the voices calling
And perhaps, it's what they want

Not the drift on down the water
Laying in the rivers bed
Back again with their brothers
All standing tall along the edge
And I swear I still hear them
All calling out to me
But the cries that I once heard
Are now the cheers of the free

Chorus

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from In The Skin Of A Man, released June 25, 2016

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Tony Farris Hopewell, Virginia

Tony Farris is a singer/songwriter residing in the town of Hopewell, Va. Inspired greatly by the Folk Boom music of the 60's up into the psychedelia movement, Progressive rock, grunge and garage rock, the list goes on. His music is carefully arranged, descriptive and mysterious in nature. Certainly a story teller that show's you, rather than tells you. ... more

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