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Texas Nightingale

from Three Pawn Shops by Eric Dahl

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Texas Nightingale – I have spent quality time with poets from earlier centuries, and sometimes their ideas or images cross into what I write. John Keats spoke to me through two of his poems that affect this song—Ode on a Grecian Urn and Ode to a Nightingale. The person in Texas who understood this angle of my writing was John Conquest. He was English and literary but also a Texas music critic and the editor of Third Coast Music. He once reviewed one of my very unknown CDs on the same front page with Lyle Lovett and Ray Wylie Hubbard – a subtle but real honor. I never met John, but he wrote two of the most perceptive reviews of my songs. When he was taken from this mortal coil in 2017, it was a profound loss for songwriting and songwriters.

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Texas Nightingale

© 2021 by Eric Dahl

The day is gone like it’s supposed to be.
Darling what’s wrong? You can talk to me.
I can say the things that soothe you,
I can sing a lullaby,
If you tell me why you’re tied in knots
Or if at least you try.

Did you hear that? It’s a Texas Nightingale
And live oaks whisperin adieu.
No one’s written anything
That comes even close to you.
Take off your braided Texas belt.
Turn off the twisted Texas news.
Take off your skintight Texas anger
And your lacy Texas blues.

The night comes on with all its poetry,
On and on – just keep talking to me.
This is not about eternity.
It’s a moment in your mind
When the Grecian Urn is broken,
And the lovers touch like the blind leading the blind.

Did you hear that? It’s a Texas nightingale . . . .

This is not about eternity,
It’s a moment in your mind
When the Grecian Urn is broken
And the lovers touch like the blind leading the blind.

Did you hear that? It’s a Texas nightingale
And live oaks whisperin adieu.
No one’s written anything
That comes even close to you.
No one’s written anything
That comes even close to you.

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from Three Pawn Shops, released January 21, 2022

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Eric Dahl Seattle, Washington

His music ranges from acoustic neo-rockabilly to thoughtful and reflective with a voice somewhere between Johnny Cash and Lou Reed.

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