Practice Perfect, 習うより慣れろ (February, 2月)
from Setsu | 節 by Mermaid Guitar
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Follow the father, trade passed to me at birth
Now I have hands that are stained with clay of this earth
Secrets are handed down
As the potter's wheel spins round
Moulding each son
Like this pot shaped from clay
"Practice makes perfect" - creed that my father preached
He always added: "Perfection can never be reached"
Every artisan
Geisha, painter, shakuhachi man
Is bound to create
Like this potter's son of clay
Even though I worry about the future
My son shows no interest in the craft
I said, "One day, my boy, a potter you'll be"
He just laughed
His life's games of mahjong, pachinko and bars
Spends all his money on his bleached-blonde girlfriend and cars
BUT such thoughts are winter's cold
Warmed by the kiln's red fire
Fuelled by the heat of my father’s, his father's,
Thousands and thousands
Of pots fired in years gone by
Secrets will be handed down
As the potter's wheel spins round
If not son then daughter
Like a pot shaped from clay
Now I have hands that are stained with clay of this earth
Secrets are handed down
As the potter's wheel spins round
Moulding each son
Like this pot shaped from clay
"Practice makes perfect" - creed that my father preached
He always added: "Perfection can never be reached"
Every artisan
Geisha, painter, shakuhachi man
Is bound to create
Like this potter's son of clay
Even though I worry about the future
My son shows no interest in the craft
I said, "One day, my boy, a potter you'll be"
He just laughed
His life's games of mahjong, pachinko and bars
Spends all his money on his bleached-blonde girlfriend and cars
BUT such thoughts are winter's cold
Warmed by the kiln's red fire
Fuelled by the heat of my father’s, his father's,
Thousands and thousands
Of pots fired in years gone by
Secrets will be handed down
As the potter's wheel spins round
If not son then daughter
Like a pot shaped from clay
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from Setsu | 節,
released November 1, 2016
Track art credit: Potter by Alan via Flickr CC BY 2.0
www.flickr.com/photos/adavey/5075598975
Track art credit: Potter by Alan via Flickr CC BY 2.0
www.flickr.com/photos/adavey/5075598975
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Mermaid Guitar New Zealand
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Mermaid Guitar music is not earnest navel-gazing. It's indie rock with humour and hidden depths.
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