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from Forgotten Portraits by NadNavillus

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This song was composed around the words of Seven Scott, as sourced from Poetry Magazine February 2021 issue, "The Practice of Freedom" Volume 217, Number 5.

Magazine cover art by Damon Locks; guest edited by Joshua Bennett, Tara Betts, and Sarah Ross.

lyrics

On a cool morning of false rain,
cruel and complicit
when the low and shameless gray sky
refuses to shed tears,
our rusting spades bite chunks from the hard red clay.
We make slow but steady progress,
as if the iron earth will refuse him too.

’Bout halfway down to the Promised Land,
having buried our lifeless criticisms of incarceration,
the four of us’ve said nothing,
beyond weary sighs and shifty eyes
at the shoddy fit of the box of yellow pine
featuring only an ancient prisoner ID# in flat-black paint.

Of a sudden, clouds rend for a paternal sun,
peering down to impart a gentle wisdom:
at the four corners where meet
Ignorance and Knowledge, Brutality and Culture,
we will find the merciful dignity
with which to treat our honored dead.

Noses rebelling against musts of labor and mortality
upon lowering him into the cold ground,
our spades direct an onomatopoeia of dirt pattering onto the box,
lending this prisoner, this man his final voice—
ha-rumpf ... ha-rumpf ... ha-rumpf—
to continue in death the path he chose in life;
he who would refuse all who would refuse him.

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from Forgotten Portraits, released June 9, 2023
Words by Seven Scott
Dan Sullivan: guitar, vocals, keyboards; Keith Hanlon: drums
Recorded by Dan Sullivan and Keith Hanlon
Mixed by Brok Mende with Keith Hanlon and Dan Sullivan
Mastered by Brok Mende

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NadNavillus Chicago, Illinois

Equal parts guitar and vocal driven, sonically and structurally diverse, Nad Navillus is the music of Dan Sullivan.

Two releases on Jagjaguwar "Show Your Face" (JAG037) and "Iron Night" (051) proceed the latest album "Forgotten Portraits". ... more

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