Broommaker "Hourglass" featuring Annette Wasilik live at Takoma Spark, School of Musical Traditions

Broommaker "Hourglass" featuring Annette Wasilik live at Takoma Spark, School of Musical Traditions, July 30, 2024
Video taken by Doogie Whittaker
Hourglass
I could use a little grace
You could use a little remorse
I took exile in the cellar
And left you hanging in the storm
Off the east-west highway to Takoma
Dusted off from South Dakota
Do you have the time?
It’s been four years, maybe five
The hourglass is just about empty
It’s all grist for the mill until it buries me
We don’t have to send the flowers before the funeral
Living in the times when time stands still
I learned to turn and burn the pages
If nothing changes, nothing changes
You forgive what I’ve done
It’s more than what I’ve earned
When I stand and don’t deliver
The rupture flows between us like a river
The rapture will tell me how you found me
Talking clean and living dirty
The hourglass is just about empty
It’s all grist for the mill until it buries me
We don’t have to send the flowers before the funeral
Living in the times when time stands still