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ABOUT THIS TRACK:

The bluesy Death of a Toad, a poem by Richard Wilbur that Loes put to music, is the tragic tale of a toad who gets his leg shredded by a lawnmower and manages to find shelter in the brush on the edge of the lawn, where he slowly crosses over to the amphibian afterlife.

lyrics

LYRICS:

A toad the power mower caught
A toad the power mower caught
Chewed and clipped of a leg
With a hobbling hop has got to the garden verge
And the cineraria leaves gave him
Sanctuary in the shade
With the ashen heartshaped leaves
In a dim, in a low, in a final glade

Day dwindles, drowning, and at length is gone
In the wide and antique eyes that still appear
To watch the daylight steer

His original heartsblood goes
Spends on the earthen hide
In the folds and wizenings
Flows in the gutters of the banked and staring eyes
He lies as still as if he would return to stone
As still as if he would return to stone
And soundlessly attending, he dies

Toward some deep monotone
Toward misted and ebullient seas
Toward the cooling shores
Toward lost Amphibia's emperies

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from All I Ever Really Seem To Say, track released October 1, 2021
TRACK CREDITS:

Music: Loes van Schaijk
Based on a poem by Richard Wilbur
Voice & guitar: Loes van Schaijk

Artwork by Helena Čubová

Produced by Loes van Schaijk and Ondra Kozák
Mix and mastering by Ondra Kozák
Recorded at Studio Ataman (Czech Republic)

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