Name: Wednesday Morning in Ithaca (Nostos)
Duration: P00H03M06S
Description: Odysseus finally returns home, after a sum total of twenty years away.

Wednesday Morning in Ithaca (Nostos)

from Nostos by Rory John

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Odysseus finally returns home, after a sum total of twenty years away.

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I wade ashore through the scummy foam
The sun’s already hot and it smells just like I’d forgotten that i remember it smelling
The orange tree arches over the doorway, and it's so green that it makes me want to cry

And I don’t know if I have my land legs back
One step more and I’m past where dreaming could take me
I have a heart pumping tar and skin full of cracks
And somewhere ships are sinking but here it's just… quiet

And I see you and you look like music
And it's been so long and I’m such a mess
Can I be what you’ve waited all this time for? Oh, rag of a man

I stop at the gate, dry wood on my fingertips
There’s the place on the roof where your dad fixed it that summer
I can hear children playing in the alley. I look behind myself and realize I’ve been walking

But I don’t know if my feet touch the ground
And you’re there in the window, you don’t turn around

And I see you and I feel like dancing
But my heart and my body have long forgotten the steps
I don’t know what to say to you… I’m sorry I’m late?
Whoah whoah
Whoah whoah
Penelope…

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from Nostos, released February 3, 2023

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Rory John Redwood City, California

Rory John is a Northern California-based singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist.

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