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The Way That Led To You

from untethered (side one) by Dylan Goff

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I slipped out as a pointless sun sulked in the winter sky, and I didn’t know this way would lead to you. My path was frozen but I was surefooted in my pride, and I didn’t know this way would lead to you. I heard your pleas as bonds of grief that wouldn’t let me go, and I didn’t know this way would lead to you. As the tissue tore on the severed chord I vowed to try alone, and I didn’t know this way would lead to you.

I plunged into a river seeking closure and renown, and as I cursed your birth I worried that I’d only let you down, but I told you “I’m an island now!” as I began to drown.

Later on, when you were gone, I clambered back ashore, and I didn’t know this way would lead to you. My muddy shoes left clues to where I stumbled stiff and sore, and I didn’t know this way would lead to you. I clenched my fists and cried that I’d start reaping what you’d sown - and I didn’t know this way would lead to you - and the world would stop evading me and cough up what it owed, and I didn’t know this way would lead to you.

Swayed my my own rhetoric, I rallied to my cause. I shaved my head down to the skin and bought the uniform, and I was in the courtyard forming fours, roars bouncing off the walls, when my donkeys came to march me off to war.

A veteran of errors made I stand before you all, and I didn’t know this way would lead to you. I’m scarred from every prideful deed I’d planned before a fall, and I didn’t know this way would lead to you.

I seek a great communion of your congregated souls to exorcise these demons screaming behind every note, that would have me gazing backwards until I turned into salt.

Come gather round me now and bring me home, so I can walk back out that door and come with you.

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from untethered (side one), released March 19, 2021

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Dylan Goff Vienna, Austria

Born and raised in Drogheda, Ireland, Dylan Goff is a singer-songwriter who has lived in Vienna, Austria since the early 2000s. Although he has long made his physical home in Central Europe, musically he lives somewhere between the indie and folk worlds, with influences ranging from The National, Phoebe Bridgers and Gregory Alan Isakov to The Pogues, Lankum and Christy Moore. ... more

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