this riveting song dot land pushes and pulls in grind, on a journey through chaos and hurricanes. i sat while singing and playing, a rare position. it changed the path of energy, like the voices at minute 15. enjoy and thank you for listening.
recorded 2024-07-11 with one vocal and guitar track, and one overdub acoustic guitar, both in one take.
check out today’s cover art, a photograph i took in the past month called bright_web. i love the shot, the spider nears finishing building a web for the coming night.
song dot land is created on historic chickasaw land.
thank you for listening. still blogging in 2024!
transcript
my whole world was covered in roses
my whole universe looked like a cloud
from there, we grew into something beautiful
from there, we grew
all of the world burned
all of our lives yearned
to see where we knew
where we knew
where we knew
where we knew
1:40
there you knew every step
there you saw your sunburn
that’s when i knew
i’d lost everything
3:10 starts a new song feel
it’s been a while since you sang with a clean channel
sang with a clean channel, oh
it’s been a while since you sang with a clean channel
sang with a clean channel
all my songs are sung
as we sing to one
here we go again
they’d let yourself go
how’d you do that again?
when you didn’t take care of everything that should have been?
then you had to burn down like a a fire
where are the hydrants? more than 200 feet away, oh no!
4:50
there i loved you
and i waited and burned and knew
but i never gave up on the possibility that i’d hold your hand again
there i came around a little bit more than i ever could
and i always burned like i had nitrogen in my soul
there i
burned like
you’d never known
there i
melted
down your soul
you still wash me in your spinal fluid
i burn like a little star
there you looked like we could know just where you are
6:40
i always knew
i could burn to you, you were my best friend
we played together in that field as one
i would come back to you just as one
all the time i burned waiting for you
all the time i’d…
i burn for you (x4)
instrumental
9:45
i always looked to the butterflies to wash my hands
of the fear that reprised me in everything i’d seen serine
i knew it was not the end of my life when i lost those comic books
i had so much left to give and so much left to do
who could have seen that you burned like an asteroid?
who could have told that all you did was all annoying?
there you burned down and
there, that’s somewhere around here,
that’s the last time i wanted to see you
11:35
i got lost in the music
like i get lost in your eyes
beautiful blue shining back like [uninteligible] skies
there you had every little thing that you wanted
oh, but your beauty still was out there
floating on the riverside
on the riverside
i always had everything put together, yeah
that’s what i told myself
there you were and there i was
i’d always seen how you did it, now
13:50
i always knew your face when i saw you smile
woman, beautiful eyes
i always thought that you’d be something different than you were
i am not real life
i am not real life
i am not real life
14:50
i am not real life (x2)
you are still my sweet wife
i am not there tonight
i have all that you need, baby
come closer over here by me
i am just two pieces of the puzzle
i know you need love
instrumental, then a change in the song feel
17:50 on hurricanes
the clouds move across the oceans
gain up their speed
in days, we’ll flatten islands
we’ll bring houston to her knees
the winds blow over houses
the waves crash into doors
oh, we were lost to luck when mother loses her shit
19:15
there my tears ran down my face
we’d lost so much this year
and i knew (struggles to find note, pauses)
i’d not lost you
you were my guiding light
you were my silver knight
coming to rescue me
you were my antidote
you were my dandelion
you were my everything
oh
(tuning break)
22:11
i always loved you
and you loved me, too
i was bad to you
and you thought so, too
oh
22:45 (a favorite moment)
i
loved
you (x2)
24:00
and i thought the whole world was yours
and i thought the whole world was yours
i drive with my friends and see the skies
there’s the big dipper
what do they look like in southern hemisphere skies?
(instrumental, really good at 26:05 i think)
27:15
we meet again today
i’m so grateful to say
you matter
you’re alive
you hear this
experience it
in this exact moment of your life
we hear you
sing a song, a beautiful song
of your family getting along
we get it
i love you
i’m so glad you came by tonight
you have a bright, shining life to live
may you be as a flower in a beautiful field undisturbed by mammals, oh!
tuning, cut
30:00 covers the first verse and chorus of leave
you can’t wait forever
is all that you said before you stood up
and you won’t disappoint me
i can do that myself
and now that you’ve come, if you don’t mind
leave
leave and free yourself at the same time
leave
leave
let go of my hand, you got what you came for
oh, i can’t sing the song
here we go down a different road
i always wanted you
so you don’t know where you came up
then you flew like a diamond in the sky
oh, i look to you to find what’s coming next in our lives
you said everything is real
i am a light still looking for you
it is right that we always look to you
oh mother earth
oh you call us out
(instrumental, tuning)
(spoken)
it’s been a radical night on song dot land
tonight i played sitting down
it’s a little different
34:45
i love singing songs with you here at song dot land
i’m just makin’ music and keeping my hands going
it’s so fun, this is essentially dancing with my mind and with my vocal chords and fingers
how do you express your creativity in all your life?
i know that you have so much you can be proud of
go out of your way and say yes to new opportunities to create
your life will be better for it
and thank you for joining me at song dot land
(spoken)
recorded on chickasaw land