I'd love to read your lyrics. You should post them on your soundcloud. :)

here is a cover for you as I work on writing the rest of my album
<3 much love <3


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPqUrdjp_yc

Crying (Roy Orbison Cover)

A gray afternoon 
On Fifth Avenue 
Where dreams and reality 
Rendezvous 
The homeless man 
Wants to dance 
With you 
While you walk through 
Filament truths 
You thought you  knew 

The folkies negotiate  
Their record contracts 
While slugging pills
For panic attacks 
God forbid their truth is a lie 
Like those secrets kept  
Between you and I 
 
Ten pretty lyricists 
Atop Carnegie Hall 
Tangled in parachutes 
Thrashing for their fall 
Meaning means nothing 
At all  

And on the stem 
Of Time 
You and I
Compose a 21st Century 
Lullaby  
Though the roots are strong
The stem does bend 
We climb and we don’t know why 
For the rose
That must be our end  
  
Another twilight 
Over Riverside Drive 
The fortress shines 
Like it could be alive
An accident ahead  
A stranger might’ve died 
You are impatient
Because you need 
To drive 


Back to the neighborhood 
You want to escape 
Where they haven’t calculated love 
Without their hate 
And your meat is waiting
Don’t be late 
For all the ways you call
Emptiness fate 

And what you deem ambition 
Annihilates the self 
Because your happiness  
Is owned by someone else 
In you, I loved me 
Naturally 
In the age of media 
Connection’s an anomaly


Now you are gone 
And I drive alone 
Passenger seat empty 
I could call you on the phone 
I want to but I can’t 
And I know I won’t 
And you will and you might 
But you don’t 

I never wanted you to be a ghost to me 
We were young and we were flesh 
And for a second we were free
Now I am once again 
Someone like me  
Rubbing static crumbs of light 
Within America’s dream  

And on the stem 
Of Time 
You and I
Compose a 21st Century 
Lullaby  
Though the roots are strong
The stem does bend 
We climb and we don’t know why 
For the rose
That must be our end

stem of time - 8:3:17, 2.41 PM

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.

stem of time - 8:3:17, 2.41 PM

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