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Gresham F104º

from Everything's a Phoenix by Jonathan Brinkley

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about

When I moved to Portland in 2004, I was feeing the oppressive heat of urban Texas. That summer, we had a rash of 104 degree days in the Portland suburb of Gresham. This accompanied the existential crisis that moving had generated in me. I felt just as untethered and somewhat lost as I had back home. I bundled the heat with that darkness and compared them to the devil chasing me across the country. I'm really fond of the poetic result.

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The magnified invisible devil kisses my bare chest with his hot grin, and I can't say it burns; I don't exactly know it burns. I've never felt devil lips before. I don't know whether I created him or just stumbled into his cold, cavernous mouth. He seemed to know I was coming.

The devil's saddest woe is he can't be honest and beautiful at the same time.

It's a hot day in a new city, and my brain is sweating. It took over pounding when my heart stood still; now it's tired and forgetting how to let the heat of all this guilt just wash out through my skin, so the heart can gasp and sputter to life once again.

This heat does not destroy, it simply swells to stillness those who can't keep their cool.
So the devil laughs and cannonballs into the swimming pool.

credits

from Everything's a Phoenix, released May 20, 2011
Jonathan Brinkley: Words and Music, Vocals, Guitar, Large pieces of junk form the yard.
Jason Montgomery: Upright Bass
Lee Ritter: Downright Drums
Ellen McGehee: Violin

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Jonathan Brinkley Portland, Oregon

Portland-based artist Jonathan Brinkley travels a lot to share his music around the world. When not traveling, he's lived and worked on organic farms. The themes of growth, death, motion, and regeneration heard in his songs are influenced by both stillness and wandering. An undaunted dedication to truth-telling earns him a following of fans who connect to his music on a very personal level. ... more

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