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Farmer

from First by Kerry Logan

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1994 was a particularly dark year for me with future uncertainty and rocky relationships abound. In one darker moment, I penned this song in about ten minutes, a direct response to a horror I had the misfortune to experience. In 1995, Bob and I took it to Kaponga as our first ever studio recording and we repeated the feat again in '96 with Cynosure for their first album. This track, which Cynosure played often, was once labelled by Mark as the most evil song he had ever heard.

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The Farmer in the fields
The Wife, she makes his meals
She doesn’t like the dirt
The Wife, she makes him work
In the fields stands (the) tall Scarecrow
The poor man watch(es) the woman go
Knows not of the Scarecrows gleam
But spies her caught up in a dream

The Farmer’s enemy
Is what she went to see
Made moments, he made none
Hand forced the crow laughs some
Don’t leave the field

The Farmer casts her out
Knows not what she’s about
She wanders to the Crow
Something that she knows
Winter passes into his life
He finds the Scarecrow and his wife
Crow enjoys Farmers innocence
She moans, he runs for the fence

Is Farmer dead today?
Hoping so, for his sake
Will his wife speak again?
Now that she’s left the field’s frame?
He won’t leave the field

credits

from First, released August 27, 2007
Written by Kerry Logan. Produced by Kerry Logan and Cynosure.
Guitars, vocals and bass by Kerry Logan and drums by Bobby Logan.
Recorded at Rowan Studios, Kaponga, in March 1996 and released on the 1996 Cynosure album "The Art"
The cover art was drawn by Brendan McCarten, featuring a Gypsy.

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