Brave Enough, from THE DAUGHTERS

HARVEST
Shaina Taub Trio & Friends

Lyrics by Shaina Taub
Music by Shaina Taub & David Farrell Melton

Vocal Arrangement by Shaina Taub & David Farrell Melton
Horn Arrangement by Mike Brun & Jas Walton

Lead Vocal: Shaina Taub
Piano, Organ & Backing Vocals: David Farrell Melton
Bass & Backing Vocals: Mike Brun
Drums, Auxiliary Percussion & Backing Vocals: Jacob Colin Cohen
Backing Vocals: Grace McLean, Starr Busby & Catherine Brookman
Trumpet: Garrett Schmidt
Trombone: Andy Clausen
Saxophone: Jas Walton

Engineered, Filmed, Mixed, Mastered & Produced by Mason Jar Music

Get the track at www.shainataub.com.

HARVEST

Come down into the open well 
Come down, follow the ringing bell 
We've all weathered the winter chill and now all of the winds are still
So come down into the open well
Come down, follow the ringing bell 
Forgo all of your winter doubt 
Hear all the children shout
The hour is nigh

Bring your candle and run down the hill
For you won't know which fruits could blossom in the rain until

The harvest waiting in the untilled ground
In my pocket, I will carry the seeds
For the harvest waiting in the untilled ground
And grow my roses next to weeds
For the harvest waiting in the untilled ground
When I'm gone, I will be found in the harvest in the untilled ground

Come down into the open well 
Come down, follow the ringing bell 
Don't stay inside your door and gripe 
There's always something ripe
So dig out your plow

Bring your candle and run down hill
For you won't know how the tall the stems might grow to be until

The harvest waiting in the untilled ground
In my pocket, I will carry the seeds
For the harvest waiting in the untilled ground
And grow my roses next to weeds
For the harvest waiting in the untilled ground
When I'm gone, I will be found in the harvest in the untilled ground

Gather the harvest
Gather the harvest

Though I am no preacher, I will bless what we have sown
Though I am no teacher, I will show you all we've known
Though I am no farmer, I will cull what I can find
Though I wear no armor, I will guard all that we've sown and we've planted
W won't take for granted the hours and the grieving
The ceaseless believing in ancient ecology giving us all that we've found

In the harvest waiting in the untilled ground 
There's a harvest in the ground
Harvest waiting
There's a harvest in the untitled ground 

Harvest waiting in the untilled ground
And if I only live to see the planting time
For the harvest waiting in the untilled ground
And I'm long long gone for the feast and wine 
For the harvest waiting in the untilled ground
Still you'll hear my roots resound in the harvest in the untilled ground

Gather the harvest

HARVEST

GIVEN

Music & Lyrics by Shaina Taub

String Arrangement by Charlie Rosen

Voice & Piano: Shaina Taub
Cello: Meaghan Burke, Alon Bisk
Violin, Viola: Claudia Chopek

Engineered, Filmed, Mixed, Mastered & Produced by Mason Jar Music

Get the track at www.shainataub.com.

GIVEN

My oldest friend, the usual spot
For spilling guts and beers
This time my folks have broken up 
Just shy of thirty years
The food arrives
The story stings

But it’s a good, good, good, good thing.
It’s a good, good, good, good thing

The taste of toast and tacit jokes is softening the blow
This time my oldest friend has left her man two nights ago
I tear my paper napkin as we trade relief and woe
A seismic shift
Is happening

But it’s a good, good, good, good thing
Is it a good, good, good, good thing?

When I remember this, will panic turn to anecdote?
When I remember this, will sobs turn into belly laughs inside my throat?

I cab it home to lay my head
Beside the one I hold
And as we sleep, I dream of how this memory will grow old
Preemptively nostalgic me

When I remember this, 
Will we be wrinkled, gray and still together?
Or when I remember this, 
Will I be wondering how the weather is where you may live?

Love is the one thing you can’t take
It has to be given
It has to be given
3x

And that’s a good, good, good, good thing
We’re a good, good, good, good thing

GIVEN

I Sing of Artemis, from THE DAUGHTERS

Music and Lyrics by Shaina Taub

Track co-produced by Funky Butter Productions

MAKE A MESS

Music and Lyrics by Shaina Taub

Track co-produced by Funky Butter Productions

The Tale of Bear and Otter

Ease

WHEN
Music & Lyrics by Shaina Taub

Another child
Another bullet
Another unfathomable day
Another trigger
Another reason to pull it
Another unthinkable cliche

Another tragic image of violence
Another moment of silence
Another TV news routine
A solemn leader on a screen

Another family in mourning
Another pundit scorning 
Another finger pointing
Another fighting over why it cannot wait
Then another dead-end debate
Til it happens again
Again
And every time, I sit and wonder when

Oh when, oh when will it ever end?
Oh when, oh when will it ever end?
Oh when, oh when will it ever end?
Oh when, oh when will it ever end?

I heard this school kid talking bout the shooting
And he said:
“People getting shot, like, every day. That ain’t never gonna change, man, you know?”
He was only twelve or so

What shall I say to a child of my own?
What shall I say when they ask why?
What shall I say when she asks when?

Oh when, oh when will it ever end?
Oh when, oh when will it ever end?
Oh when, oh when will it ever end?
Oh when, oh when will it ever end?

I saw an old woman down by City Hall
She must’ve been seventy or more
She held a sign in one hand
A cane in the other
And she heard us singing:
“When? Oh when?”

Then she took the mic and said:
“Oh when, oh when?
If not now, then when?
Oh when, oh when?
If not now, then when?
I’ve been marching a long time, and I will march again
For when, oh when?
If not now, then when?”

What shall I sing?
Another lamentation?
What shall I sing?
Another blues inside my room?
Or shall I sing
An anthem in the street
On repeat
Til my voice runs out
Shall I stare or shall I shout?

Oh when, oh when?
If not now, then when?
Oh when, oh when?
If not now, then when?
Oh we, oh you
If not us, then who?
We’ll try again
If not now, then when?

Oh when, oh when?
If not now then when?
Oh when, oh when?
If not not now then when?

Now!
Now!
Now!


Photo by Sasha Arutyunova

WHEN

As You Like It

Rosalind, Be Merry

Turtle Pond
Music & Lyrics by Shaina Taub

Last summer I went walking 
Up the great hill in the park
The city seemed to sigh in sweet relief
The meadow filled with families 
And the dogwoods were in bloom
The newborn night was smiling like a thief
 
I heard odes upon the hawthorns
As I took the bridle path
Toward the people in the line to see the play 
As the balladeer warmed up
I tossed a dollar in her cup
Praying please, let it always be this way
 
We sang beneath the stars
As the fireflies lit the lawn
We danced despite the rain
As the food of love played on
Every heavy heart left lighter
Past the castle and beyond on turtle pond
On turtle pond
Oh, on turtle pond, oh  

This summer I went walking
Down the hill I know so well
The city seemed to sink in tired grief
The benches all were barren
And the buskers never showed 
I crossed the gothic bridge in disbelief 
 
I heard elegies on brambles
For the loved ones we have lost
And echoes of the laughter we once knew
Outside the Delacorte, a fella sorta shook his head and said
'Oh god, what are we gonna do?'
 
If only we could sing beneath the stars
As the fireflies light the lawn
And dance despite the rain
As the food of love plays on
Every heavy heart is wishing
We could wave a magic wand on turtle pond
On turtle pond
Oh, on turtle pond, oh
  
When will we gather here again? 
Will our little hope hold out til then?
The seats are sitting empty
Stage is laying bare
But someday, some summer
I will meet you there
 
And we will sing beneath the stars
As the fireflies light the lawn
We’ll dance despite the rain
As the food of love plays on
Every heavy heart will beckon
And together we'll respond on turtle pond
On turtle pond
Oh, on turtle pond, oh
On turtle pond

Music & Lyrics by Shaina Taub
Arrangement by Shaina Taub and Mike Brun
Vocals by Shaina Taub
Backing Vocals and Guitar by Mike Brun
Demo recorded and Mixed by Mike Brun

New York City, 2020

Shaina Taub

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