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The happiest song I've ever written! A mostly successful attempt to write an authentic Rio samba, given my Tin Pan Alley roots.
lyrics
A careless mess of words,
And we’re caught between the lines,
Like a smile of affection in a pair of narrowed eyes.
We blink, but don’t you see?
It’s so funny, after all.
Every time we try to untangle our stubborn shoes we trip and fall.
Fireworks that fly out of our hands.
Blinding smoke, but out the windows you can hear the marching band.
Oh darlin’, we’re so silly when we’re angry,
Even worse when we’re afraid
Of all the things we’ve been and where the time has gone.
Oh darlin’, you’re so eager but you’re stallin’.
Oh, what would happen if we stayed?
For the parade has just begun.
The shadows that we chase,
Diving in and out of sight,
But we lost them and then ourselves in a festival of lights.
The days we never seize
Drag us under by our feet.
Soon we gave in and were swept away by the commotion in the streets.
Fanfares jump and shout with buoyant strain.
Carrying us as we haplessly march in the pouring rain.
Oh darlin’, we’re so silly when we’re angry,
Even worse when we’re afraid
Of all the things we’ve been and where the time has gone.
Oh darlin’, don’t you know we’re always fallin’,
So you can never fall behind.
And the parade has just begun.
Set adrift in crowd and so far out of our depth,
But we always forget to hold our breath.
Just what are restless minds,
But a lamp without a shade?
People always end their stories right before the final page.
Temptations overwhelm,
Like the tears before they drop.
Love and acrimony swirling ‘round inside a frantic spinning top.
And we both know that we can’t make it stop.
Make it stop!
Oh darlin’, we’re so silly when we’re angry,
Even worse when we’re afraid
Of all the things we’ve been and where the time has gone.
But darlin’, time is always merely crawlin’,
And you didn’t miss a thing,
For the parade has just begun.
Oh darlin’, heaven knows just where we’re going,
But does it matter anyway?
No one gets out alive and nothing’s ever done.
We’re older, but the story is not over,
And there’s so much more to see,
And the parade has just begun.
credits
from Vacations and Experiments,
track released July 6, 2015
Jesse Featherstone: Pandeiro/Lead Vocal
Brianna Reed: Backup Vocal
Ariana Stultz: Backup Vocal
Nelle June Anderson: Backup Vocal
Joe Tisdall: Guitar
Matthew Dowden: Cavaquinho
Jory Dawidowicz: Bass
Ryan MacLean: Drum Set/Auxiliary Percussion
Alex Friedman: Tamborim
Angela Skarpelis: Surdo
Trygve Butler: Trumpet
Szabolc Koczur: Trumpet
"Advice Column" is a new collaborative project featuring tracks written, recorded, and produced remotely during quarantine. Bandcamp New & Notable May 14, 2020
