i went to prison 
for things i didn't do
i became a man
a man i never knew
19 years is too much time
to forgive you

now i'm going home
to friends i don't know
and a family
that has long since
abandoned me


2012

Prison

i play music in the dark
i waste my life away
and my family
is secretly falling apart

Family

all of my friends move 
from house to hosue
to new york city and b-town

my friends move 
from town to town
but i don't believe them
when they say you've got
everything

somewhere out in the city
you can come with me
if i go

somewhere out in the city
you can come with me
because you know
you've got it all

you have said all you can say
i have done what i have done
i am lost without your ways
i am lost without your ways

House to House

you were surrounded by all these people
who could'a helped you through
now that you're not here
we wish that we could have known
what to do for you

you had to go
or so i'm told
don't you know?

you're driving?
i'll come along
"woah oh no"
don't you go

'cause if only an ounce or a fifth or a honey slide
could behead the truth
sometimes i think of
the day that i last saw you
somehow you knew
somehow you knew

that you had to go
or so i'm told
don't you know?

you're driving?
i'll come along
woah oh no
don't you go

Honey Slide (Acoustic)

My dad calls my grandpa on the phone
It's almost Christmas and he's almost all alone
He asks if she remembers the holidays
And they both know what the answer is
So they make plans for New Year's Day
For a bite to eat and not to stay out late

Christmas Eve isn't the same on Cedargrove
This year
A new family is lighting up the tree
Where we used to sit and wait patiently 
Karaoke and monkey masks
The smell of your cooking
Never will pass

My mother goes alone to the old home
With shopping bags and medicine
They'll sit and watch some old program
It brings them back to the old land
Where the man with big hands
Carries in a new Emerson for the basement
Ellington & Nelson
Copeland & Cash
Dolly & Patsy
Rosemary & Holidae

Christmas eve isn't the same
On Lake Breeze this year
A new family is lighting up the tree
Where we used to sit and wait patiently
Bingo and scat
Ricardo & Lucy

My dad calls my grandpa on the phone
it's almost Christmas
And he's almost
All alone

Sarah Celentano - Vocals
Aaron Celentano - Vocals/Banjo/Synth
Jeff Marini - Drums

http://noisetrade.com/aaroncelentano/christmas-crickets

Grandma & Grampa

it's starting to get cold
and the trees at my back
are no longer guarding
the bugs on my neck
that are sucking my blood
for a late supper

the birds pay no mind
they just sing me my song
right back to me
and it's prettier than i could ever sing, anything

the suns headed west
to wake up my friends
in oklahoma
and the winds are picking up now
swirling leaves in to a dance that nobody's seen

all my friends in a beach house
down south "living hell" without me
so i'm here in the park
writing things in the dark
to nothing

Through The Alders (Acoustic)

i'm afraid to get too high
because i know i'll get real low
so i stay stuck in limbo

she's with her and i'm with me
and i would have you agree
that we should get married

stuck in limbo
i'm stuck
in limbo

Limbo

by the way
you were gone
and i stuck around

and faye you got all you want
and more and more and more


Stuck Around (Faye)

i hope you don't forget
how to write like this
i hope you don't forget 
when you come home

i hope you don't forget

our kites are tangled up
they're falling to the sand now
our chains have fallen off our bikes
and now we have no wheels

patterns reversed and now i see blue 
too little too late
not enough to keep going keep on keep goin' on
patterns rehearsed the same four chords
the same minor falls and major lifts
do it all over again do it all over again
still i keep on still i keep on still i keep on

Write Like This (2016 Mix)

My neighbor was spraying his lawn with chemicals and I was watching an interview with George Harrison talking about LSD while looking at our new garden and so this odd little song was born.

Recorded live in one take.

I try so hard
In the shadows
In the dark corners
Of my room
Where the flowers
Never seem to bloom

A fly is trapped 
In the window 
Above my sink
And he sees me 
And the lock 
That never sets him free

The petals are flying
And the bees are dying
Cause I sprayed them all
With LSD and now
They're higher than the Beetles in the peach tree
And so we're all singing
Strawberry fields
And now we are all happy
You and me
Are happy

A garden grows
In the bed
That we have made
the tomatoes are so high
Arching through the wires to the sky

A seed is sown
In the dirt
And compost nightin-
gale sings a tune
The owl hunts a mouse
Now he's running cross the room
While I am wash dishes in the house 

Pink petals are flying
And the leaves are dying 
Cause I sprayed them all
With LSD and now
They're higher than the Beetles in the peach tree
And so we're all singing
Strawberry fields
And now we are all happy
You and me
Are happy








Aaron Celentano

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