Name: Formaldehyde Live by Nature Boy Explorer
Duration: 2 min 36 s
Description: Still working things out for next month at snake oil. Here's Becky's strange song of weird love.

Still working things out for next month at snake oil. Here's Becky's strange song of weird love.

Formaldehyde Live

First of 3 art songs I'm writing with poems my good friend Jeanine Casler wrote for me. I'm playing guitar, bass and piano, Becky Brown is playing harp and Paige Naylor is the soprano.

Our house on the hill by Jeanine Casler

Come with me, you said
And I’ll build a world apart 
Where you’ll never have to grieve
For you’ll never want to leave

Honeycomb from stingless bees
Pillows soft as sparrow’s wings 
Golden goblets wait to catch
The ruby wine from hidden springs

Pathways lined with diamond dust                        
Will lead us to a silver brook                                    
And there we’ll learn from dragonflies           
More secrets than one knows from books           
 
And envy will not be allowed                                    
From little minds we’ll bar the door                        
And safe inside you’ll barely hear                       
The West Wind’s angry roar                               
 
Come with me, you said                                    
To our house upon the hill—                             
Without a breath, without a sigh,                      
I answered you—“I will.”

Cancíon I

i put your flowers in a jar beside my bed 
that night before i went to sleep 
thoughts of you danced in my head 
and when i woke, my room smelled sweet 

waved goodbye to all my grey skies 
and let your sunlight burn me up 
and even though i’d end up blistered 
still i couldn’t get enough 

and now it’s easier to breathe 
these spring rains will wash me clean 
i’ll take the flowers 
that we’d grown 
and plant a garden all my own (g) 

i tore down the walls you built me 
and built new ones painted blue 
but every time i saw the sunshine 
it reminded me of you 

i took the flowers from my bedside 
and the stars out of my eyes 
and as the blindness was subsiding 
i saw the flowers all had died

credits
from Flowers, releases February 22, 2019 

Music and Lyrics by Lillian Snyder 
Produced and Engineered by Mark Snyder 
Mixed by Delbert Bowers 
Assistant Engineers - Daniel Hubert and Taylor Neal 
Recorded at Jacksonville University Studio

Lillian Snyder - vocals 
Joshua Camp - keyboards 
daniel Hubert - bass 
Isabella Martinez - backing vocals 
Taylor Neal - guitars 
Mamie Lou Small - viola 
Mark Snyder - drums 
Tony Steve - percussion

Formaldehyde Live

Nature Boy Explorer

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