Los Ebanos Crossing

by Ben Hoganson

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An older song that utilizes motifs of the afterlife, mythology, retirement parks, and southern Texas.

lyrics

A picture speaks a thousand words
A graven image in my head
The season's calling when you'll disappear
I'll wear your souvenir

Understood in the first light of the morning
Misconstrued in the abscess of the night
Double-take at the crossing of Los Ebanos
Double-take at the crossing

It's where the plants are always growing
Where the citrus is in bloom
Shuffleboard with good Sir Galahad
Martini in his hand

Understood in the first light of the morning
Misconstrued in the abscess of the night
Double-take at the crossing of Los Ebanos
Double-take at the crossing

Irrigation ditches and the Rio Grande
Checkerboard that landscape flat
Green to brown and then to green again
Have you been born again?

Understood in the first light of the morning
Misconstrued in the abscess of the night
Double-take at the crossing of Los Ebanos
Double-take at the crossing

credits

released December 2, 2019
Written, played and recorded by Ben Hoganson.
Mastered by Mihael Vrbanic.

Cover photo:

Lee, R., photographer. (1939) Sign. Weslaco, Texas. Hidalgo County Texas United States Weslaco Weslaco, 1939. Feb. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/item/2017782098/.

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Ben Hoganson Saint Paul, Minnesota

Singer-songwriter based in Saint Paul, Minnesota.

Side acts: Scattered to Broken

Past acts: Duplomacy

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