O buried my Da in the pacific beach.... this song brings him back to me

O thought I was hallucinating when I saw my Da on Imperial Beach a year past his death

July

Live Interview and Performance on KDRP (Bo Chase In The Morning)

Recorded live at Rockwood Music Hall, December 28, 2013.

Cedar Beach (Live At Rockwood Music Hall)

I wrote a draft of this
on Cedar Beach off of Babylon, New York
My toe tracing the words
in sand stretched nearly 40 feet,
the punctuation at the right side
slowly being eaten away by the waves

It was about a golem
feathered with barnacles and seaweed
emerging from the ocean
and me, trembling in the sand
waiting for the judgment
of whether I was to be defended

"Is it a heaven or hell at the floor of the sea?" I asked him.
Smiling he said as he started to walk off alone
"You wrote that answer a long time ago"

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Kyle Evans - Tenor vocals, Guitar, Charango, Banjo, Glockenspiel, Mellotron, Percussion
Aviva Jaye - Alto vocals, Piano
Jeffrey Young - Violin
Patti Kilroy - Violin
Esther Viola Kurtz - Oboe
Isabel Castellvi - Cello
Beth Meyers - Viola

Engineered and mixed by Chris Butler at Butler Recording, Brooklyn

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Cedar Beach

-- Lyrics --

There's an ochre palomino by the road
She looks like she is itching to be rode
She stomps her hooves and shakes her mane at me

the paint is peeling off her stable doors
she was bred for speed and looks and nothing more
a hand grenade just waiting to be thrown
	
Oh wait, you're crumbling on the road

I could have rode her twenty years before
But I don't think I could mount up anymore
the earth is turning slower everyday

Oh wait, you're crumbling on the road

-- Hoursongs --

Hoursongs are songs written as improvisations, written within a strict time limit of an hour.

Ochre Palomino (Hoursongs 20.12.1 - Sketch Demo)

I dream of the worlds into which we will someday wake.

Cedar Beach

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