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Whistle Like the Wind

from Late for the War by Albert Rouzie

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There is no end to love. Uses trees, wind and other metaphors of life and death to get to the main idea.

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Whistle Like the Wind

In the beginning you wore greens and blues
Like when a tree grows fast and strong, straight and true,
Before a lightning strike burns the crown
And logging trucks roll in to cut it down.

Only the night is long; dawn shines purple doom.
You might be bent and broken down by noon.
And the wind misses the limbs and sighs, ‘too soon,
Is there nothing more to do?

But whistle like the wind, past towers and steeples
Whistle like the wind, through it hurts your ears.
Whistle like you think the end never will come
And there is no end to love.

Like a song suspended in the middle of a bridge,
Like a nighthawk glides between the living and the dead,
And the cornstalks chatter an elegy of blood,
While the wind keeps asking, is there nothing to be done?

But whistle through the stalks, whistle through the trees,
Beware that song can bring you to your knees.
Whistle like you think the end never will come
And whistle like there is no end to love.

there is no end to love.
there is no end to love.
there may be nothing below, nothing above but
there is no end to love.

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from Late for the War, released January 12, 2023
Albert Rouzie: vocals, guitar, and electric bass
Bernie Nau: Keyboards

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Albert Rouzie Athens, Ohio

I have lived in New Orleans, piedmont North Carolina, Portland, Oregon, Austin, Texas, and Athens, Ohio, all places that have influenced my songwriting, a fusion of blues, folk, rock, and country cooked down to my own Americana gumbo. Songs range from offbeat fantasy to focused realism and love songs somewhere in between. I have three albums out, and one, Late for the War, due out in Jan. 2023. ... more

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