Someone Else’s Car

Some of the best times to be had are in cars.  Especially growing up in the woods where I did, a movie date was a 30 minute trip each way, and the back and forth, and the traveling I did for girls when I was young, the road means a lot to me.

The dreams  you had, the drinks you mixed
All in all we weren’t missed
Leather seats and coffee stains
30,000 miles before

The paint peeled back and rusting through
trouble adjusting the temperature
an import hatchback or Cadillac
driving someone else’s car

I remember giving you your first ride
matchless yellow halter, straps on the side
But you, you couldn’t sit still
and you came to my shoulder and killed –

my ambition to kiss what I did not know
whether you’d want me to take it slow
a different angle and a clumsy mess
I found it before I’ll find it again

a shoeprint etched into the glovebox
transmission pulled into park
a family sedan or an unmarked van
driving someone else’s car

Ingrid

a through-composed electronic song that  sort of goes all over the place.  There’s arppegiators and strings, and orchestral momentum and noodly organ solos.  Still, it’s kind of fun.

Later that morning Ingrid tripped,
Slightly over Nathan over records over gifts
Into formica and out of her skin
tripping on laughter and laughing on the in-
sideways cocked head and eyebrows up
half smile locked on sweet young shoulderblades
lifting toward even-handedness,
as she kissed and the smile fades

Later that year, Ian was born,
Colic and crying.
Even with love, weather broke through shutters.
and cold, and shuddering
and sore and nursing
and left. And needlessly alone.

Leave me crawling like my son
My bittersweet eventual meaningful crushing.

Your Picture

Not putting the pieces back together.  Break ups. amiright?  It is hard to write music when I’m not miserable. Some nice reverse B3 in there for good measure.

75 Years Ago

Electronic fun, one of the more complete cuts from this album, which features mostly fully sequenced synth-based tracks in a songlet style. 

Some electronic synth-pop made entirely with a juno 106 (other than the drums and singing).  I’ve played with various versions of demoing this (orchestral, piano only, etc…) but for some reason this kind feel suits the mood the most.