Conjure Lyrics

If I live long enough to live

As long as I have again

I'll write it in a paperback

Call it "There & Back Again"

A wink at the fable

Of mountains and magic

Not all that far off from

A life spent in transit

Some words on the wilderness

From a failed high school poet

With half written metaphors

To buffer the sadness

Erase the names

Sub out the dates and

Blur out the passage

Those years in the forest

When I foraged and forged my own truth

Conjure a ghost I once knew

Conjure a ghost I once knew

These days it's uncertain I'll ever leave Michigan

Been bound by a spell or some incantation

I gaze in the absence from a park bench near a campus

With eyes still wide open

I channel and I drift

To a place through the evergreens

Out in the morning breeze

My breath in the air

The dark wood before me

Somewhere in the firmament

Or how I imagine it

The crunching of snow

Summons me to the present view

Conjure a ghost I once knew

It was you

It was you

It was you

Conjure a ghost I once knew