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Running Sound Interference

from Songs for Leaving by A.S. Coomer

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lyrics

See this poem is specific
You have to know what faders are
How they’re used, what it feels like
To ease them forward, gliding with swells

Swells in volume. I can’t just mute the tracks
Of myself that I don’t like, that don’t fit,
That are beautiful but not right for this session,
This life, this season, this day,

In the DAW I cut and mute, stack and overlap
Focus on dynamics and feel and energy
In life I stumbled around dumbfounded
Either on mute or clipping
Accompanying myself on a failed solo

See this is a specific poem
There are bits of me clipping
The lights blinking yellow at first
Then blipping into red & staying there

And I can’t remedy the feedback
Can’t squelch the piercing wail
With sterilizing compression
Can’t back off the mids or the highs

Lord knows I’m beholden to these lows

& there seems to be nothing gained
From easing back on the gain

I want to tell you I’m drowning
Just with dignity and in a minor key

See? This poem is specific
But I think we all know
The last resort
For squelching the feedback
is pulling the plug.

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from Songs for Leaving, released November 25, 2022
This poem was published by Can We Have Our Ball Back? in April of 2020.

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A.S. Coomer Elizabethtown, Kentucky

Folk. Americana. Narratives. Ambient Instrumentals. Aubades. Nocturnes. Poetry. Rock & roll. Psychedelia. Alt- Country.

Five of my tunes were published by The Museum of Americana.

Rural Eminence Volumes One, Two, & Three are instrumental reflections of the rural life.

Songs for Leaving is a poetry/music fusion.

I've got tons of projects cooking.

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