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Muslin Gauze
(©2014 Rich Mattson and Germaine Gemberling)

You feel a fire burning though it’s time to go to sleep
You get up every morning on the schedules that they keep

Your muslin gauze
Is dragging in the street
It’s getting dirtier
The more he sweeps you off your feet

He twirls you ‘round there is no sound but shuffling in the gravel
He stops you there in a frozen stare, Orion swings the gavel

It’s such a cold dark night, down here in Genoa
And you can feel it in the air, and know it
Goodnight my lover, til we meet again
Your muslin gauze, is wearing thin
..It’s withering in the wind

Your muslin gauze
Once was so neat
It’s getting dirtier
The more he sweeps you off your feet

The days are long, the nights are longer, images remain
The grass, the rain, the words, the tender touch, it goes away

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from Rich Mattson and the Northstars, released June 2, 2015

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Hello, my name is Rich Mattson. Here are some bands that I sing, play guitar and write songs with at my studio in northern Minnesota. Enjoy!

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