Over the Mountain (Napoleon Complex

from Footprints by Organic Flow

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lyrics

Pressing fingertips
against her soul mirrored--
the underbelly of the lake
fed her diffusing image.

The bridger and the bridge
umbilicaled and imprinted:

"And I've looked over the
mountain," she said.

When United States
of Herd-Head
lipped your neck
a delicate secret:

bones of flowered poems
where sun falls out.

How to hold your hand
in the Western night?

Dreams of billowing
"do tears sit in lakes--
patiently?"

Enter dreams to meet you--
one door where you need
breath--

I dive to you
to save an idea
like a child
in a coloring book.

All the painter can do
is reframe the painting that
she is

like a sunflower perpetually
reframing itself in the
sunlight;

sunflower always reframing
the dots in the coloring book--

which the page has always
shown and it cannot
see.

Enter the rambunctious city
rising orderlessly:

the hoards blooming from openings
like wounds.

The shattered light of the clock
artificing every block:

beneath the madness
pollution rising between
the light intervals--

perpetual motion
lack order and beauty
and the car pulls up
the the only building--

not scraping the sky:

reconfiguring itself
page by page.

Change is furniture
reassembled and new
faces at the forefront--

architect behind it
wants one more lump--

two architects behind
her stilted:

new shades of hope
evolve within

and though she's still
a wilted sunflower--

dieing as part of the circle
unseen between the acts--

as the curtain close
hands from laps:
audience claps.

All the painter can do
is reframe the painting that
she is

like a sunflower perpetually
reframing itself in the
sunlight;

sunflower always reframing
the dots in the coloring book--

which the page has always
shown and it cannot
see.

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from Footprints, released April 14, 2012

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about

Organic Flow Chicago, Illinois

Known for their innovative style, Organic Flow create cultural dialogue through their music. They are known in the Chicagoland area for their process of respectfully combining elements of jazz and hip hop music. The band is a quartet composed of Zane Ranney (drums), Michael Cantafio (guitar), Liam Bird (MC) and Dave Gilman (bass), but also calls on many feature members and guest artists. ... more