Prehistoric Stones

by Todd Portnowitz

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I’ll build you a necropolis, darling,
With rooms for all the corpses you love best
And I’ll lay all my creations on your tomb
Just to prove
That my love for you is as permanent as death

I’ll write you such sweet epitaphs, baby,
That no one in good conscience could forget
And I’ll carve them into prehistoric stones
Just to show
That my love for you is as permanent as death

And I know
You’re afraid of airplanes
And I get scared of gold rings
And you love happy endings
But romance gives me migraines

And I know
You’re not one for drinking
But I like cloudy thinking
And not just on the weekends
Though you hate when the rules bend

And who knows
Maybe I’m the wrong one
Too rash for the long run
Or maybe we’re just both young
Pushing on the slow sun

Or maybe
This is where the sky ends
Right here where the road bends
And all those awful amens
Hurled at the heavens
Now for generations
By over-anxious humans
With grandiose delusions
Of everlasting gardens
And milk and honey islands
And easygoing old friends
With supernatural life-spans
Or venerated loved ones
Who watch us from the grandstands…

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released February 3, 2013
w/ Jay Godwin on drums

recorded @ Sounquest Studios, Feb. 2013

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Todd Portnowitz New York, New York

From 2004 - 2009 Todd Evan Portnowitz performed as singer/songwriter in the Florida band Clock Hands Strangle, recording two LPs, Redshift/Blueshift (2007 Team Grizzly) and Distaccati (2009 Chocolate Lab). He now performs and records as a solo artist out of New York, NY ... more

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