Name: Putting Up for the Night
Duration: P00H02M04S
Description: Theresa Moritz' lyrics are inspired by and drawn upon the poem "Putting Up for the Night" by A. F. Moritz from The Tradition (1986, Princeton University Press)

Putting Up for the Night

from How I Lost It All by The New Birds of America

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Theresa Moritz' lyrics are inspired by and drawn upon the poem "Putting Up for the Night" by A. F. Moritz from The Tradition (1986, Princeton University Press)

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I was travelling, I stopped for the night.
They put me under the eaves.
The rain kept waking me, the rain
and the doors in the hallway
one floor down opening and closing
and sometimes someone falling
against a wall, a man collapsing
a woman staggering from a blow.

The first time I woke up
the wind had died, the rain
brushed the roof more quietly
than silence. I saw no harm
anywhere anymore in the world.
No harm could come to me.
The body might be lost, the peace never.

The second time I woke up
the building shook, the wind
hammered and I realized
all was ruined and I must suffer
with the rest and soon be dead.
No matter how I cried out
nothing would stop me going.

I was travelling, I stopped for the night.
They put me under the eaves
the rain kept waking me, the rain.

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from How I Lost It All, released April 15, 2022
Music by Blaise Moritz, Lyrics by Theresa Moritz
Recorded in Toronto, November 23, 2018
by Jon Mychal at The Sonic Spa

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