I want to thank everybody who has taken the time to listen these singles as they've been released the last few months, often in evolving versions and interpretations. My new album 'Our Fine Metropolis' will be posted on Soundcloud on January 14th, 2024. Wishing you a happy New Year! Rock & roll

A touch of the tragic
May be conducive to magic
But it’s a rock in the shoe
Of ordinary life
 
Never wanted it to happen
Our branch bent before snapping
Saw reality as an anomaly
As our little tree struggled in the strife
 
Upon the polished bar-slab
Rests an old head who can’t pay his tab
While his pocket chimes, a music box
The last gift from his wife
 
Well, life may be short
I may be numb
My country is
Governed by a gun
 
Hey, maybe it’s simple
Maybe its not
I could not work
The way that you want
 
If there’s a god
If you’re a friend
If there’s a story
With an end
 
I won’t forget
When things were good
I’ll someday figure out
What I never understood
 
Plinking my night symphonies
The Detective wants his car keys
Originals and standards
No spotlight
 
Couldn’t learn how to quit
Months before you split
Should’ve held you harder
After that last flight
Your father offered a good job
And my pursuit’s run by the mob
Why not grow-up, own property
And bow out from a rigged fight?
 
The sound of the keys
Sends me, sends me
The sound of the keys
Sends me, sends me
It was a lot like your touch
Leaves me, leaves me
A lot like your touch
Leaves me, leaves me
A sanctuary from the snow
Where I know, I know
A sanctuary from the snow
Where I’m one with the melting
The sound of the keys
Was the only thing, the only thing
That noticed me
Noticed me
The sound of the keys
Noticed me
Before you
Before you
Before you

I May Be Numb

here is a cover for you as I work on writing the rest of my album
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPqUrdjp_yc

Crying (Roy Orbison Cover)

Yellow Moon
Twilight,
More night to remind me.
Such quiet, isolating focus.
 
Every inch of every last room.
Both empty and filled with memories of you.
 
And, oh my God,
That yellow Moon.
Could it lead me back to you?
 
I prayed for one day to forget you.
Just one day floating numb elated.
But you are there in all that I do.
So we are never separated.
 
And, oh my God.
That yellow Moon,
Could it lead me back to you?

Yellow Moon by Kristin Chambers

Cover of The Beatles classic live from Liverpool in 2009

Something - (Liverpool - 2009)

Someone's Got A Hold Of My Heart - 1984

Goodbye Stranger

The Times They Are A-Changin' - 1981

Rare performance of In The Summertime back in 2002

In The Summertime - (St. Paul 2002)

Opening, by Julia Anrather

Benamin Julia, producer
Dan Kleederman, Guitars & Vocals
Katie Jacoby, Violins
Chris Connors, Mix & Master
Vince Chiarito, Audio Engineer
Recorded at Hive Mind Recording in Brooklyn, NY

Opening

The Boys of Summer

The Boys of Summer (Live at EartH, London, 2019)

I Didn't See

Matt Waters is a singer-songwriter from New York City. His songs range from character studies of the contemporary American to intimate explorations of love. A writer of fiction, he attempts to meld the musical and literary realms through detailed lyricism. He has been particularly inspired by the likes of Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, Billy Corgan, Mike Scott, Isaac Brock, David Bowie, Tupac Shakur, Elliott Smith, Patti Smith, Nicole Atkins, Damien Rice and Bruce Springsteen. As a guitar player he’s influenced by the progressions of John Lennon and George Harrison. The lyrics to his song Aurora were published in the March 2017 issue of American Songwriter Magazine. An essay about being a performance artist called A Moment of Honesty was published in Guernica in May 2016.

I May Be Numb

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