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Clockwork

from By Ourselves by Nathan Eliot

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Just like clockwork, bound to a sun
Though we don’t agree on the rhythm of our revolutions

It is fitting or so profound that direction be paramount
To collision-free way round?

Once a cyclone of dust and gas
Spun from star-guts expelling trash
Like a phoenix, rise from ash.

If the stars could surely remain
Bright and distant, fixed in a frame
God will deal in gravity’s game
Smooth our reeling worries away

Just make clocks work, everyday job
But the heart’s work is learning laws
Deeper than we’ve grown to see

Fitting four dimensions of space
Into three we everyday face
Truth shrugs absolutes with grace

Once a carriage of human mind
Would assume the constant of light
To derive a new spacetime

In a marriage of space and time
Mass and energies intertwined
Vows are sound in longer lines
Leading to grander designs

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from By Ourselves, released July 28, 2019

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Nathan Eliot Minneapolis, Minnesota

After collaborating on the Minneapolis music scene for more than 15 years, Nathan Eliot is proud to release his second solo album, By Ourselves, a piano meditation on time, on July 28, 2019.

His debut album, Universe in Me (2014), transformed "familiar folk instruments into celestial sound machines, as mandola mingles with synth and bells." (The Current blog)
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