Through Fog

from Eternal Rest EP by Heather Valley

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Through Fog (4:52) places you in the kitchen of an old lonely farmhouse. Even the barn milk house is obscured by the morning fog. The passage of time from childhood to adulthood is weak here. The narrator goes back and forth, lost in the big cabin of the truck of her childhood memories, and the big confusion of the people who have since hurt her, receding into the safety of brewing coffee and setting out her laundry, holding on to the small comforts of this solitude even after the fog burns off.

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Sugar’s in the crystal
Coffee is on the stove
Nothing left to do here
But watch the fog burn off

Through fog
You can hardly see the Milk House
But you can always see behind
Just like the truck rides
It’s bigger in your mind

Can’t really be wrong to want to take care
Being alone can make you hard
Wondering if you’ll ever get there
Real hands, real words, real heart

Fog obscures the truth so you see
Only beauty
So long as he stays far enough to be
Obscured by fog

It burns off like always
You put the laundry on the line
A single set of sheets in sunlight
A lonely truthful life

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from Eternal Rest EP, released February 23, 2022
Copyright Heather Alexander 2022

Vocals & acoustic guitars HV
Steel guitars Mike Brenner
Wurlitzer Thom McKay
Bass & clarinet Nimal Agalawatte
Fiddle Gareth Inkster
Mixed and mastered by Nimal Agalawatte at Four String Audio in Hamilton, ON.

Art by Josh Dunlap / @chemicalmessiah

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