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Anyone To Serve

from Western Transport by James Irwin

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Now that everybody knows, everyone’s alone, anywhere where no one goes, will be the most travelled road.

How can I follow you? Close my eyes and walk out of the hotel room, with my hands out reaching at the road,

as if anybody’s blind with faith, as if there’s anyone to serve.

Now you’re lying on a lion fur, telling me what you deserve. You wrap your lips around a blur of words, strangest thing I ever heard.

How can anyone, listen to anyone, who’s got their luggage lying all around the room. Love somebody like a child would do.

As if anybody’s blind with faith. As if there’s anyone to serve.

Now you know it isn’t real. The illusion falls apart. Nothing comes without a mirror, and no one’s pure of heart.

How can anyone follow anyone, who is holding out and wandering south, hearing words come from a spirit’s mouth, as if anybody’s blind with faith, as if there’s anyone to serve.

It turns out you don’t know how to be poor. There’s only one way to learn. When you fall off the broken wheel, lie in the weeds and watch it burn.

Are you too far gone, to think that anybody sees, a simple thing like sympathy, for someone you’re not trying to please.

Everyone this is Alice, Alice this is everyone. She came all the way from Baltimore with me, and the only one who can see her is me.

Though they tell me she was never even there, I will carry clothes for Alice to wear, as if anybody’s blind with faith, as if there’s anyone to serve.

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from Western Transport, released May 1, 2012

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James Irwin Toronto, Ontario

Despite shifting from outsider folk to low-fi 80s pop to indie rock and back, the mood and lyrical voice of James Irwin's music has always been unmistakable.
Bandmates used to call it "Jamesing”.

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