This song was written too long ago for me to remember. Perhaps in 2010, perhaps the year or two before that. I remember still living in my old bedroom at my parents house when it was born. Originally recorded on my JamMan loop pedal - still one of the greatest musical purchases I've made. The song ultimately was released  in August 2013 on an album  titled "Oh My Love." This recording is from July 2013. Sitting around the kitchen table of my Watson Street house in Pensacola, Florida with my dear friends with Billy Howell (lead guitar), Ayla Green (cello), and Ashley Pennewill (mandoline). A live one take recording of our band rehearsal; "The Kitchen Sessions"

It’s on the tip of my tongue I fell in love I fell apart
It’s all I needed to know to feel so close yet so far away
Away from here I’m going; we’ll be miles and miles apart
Well I don’t want to sound heartless but I have to leave your bitter heart

Now is the world shaking or am I just breaking apart at the seams this 
seems it might be so. Before I leave, oh before I hit the road promise me that you’ll let me go....   

You said we could make it, but let’s not make up lies to our self
Tried this all once before and I know it’s a living hell
So you can hate me if you want to it’s probably easier that way 
I warned you don’t get attached to me cause darling I’ll never stick around

Now is the world shaking or am I just breaking apart at the seams this 
seems it might be so. Before I leave, oh before I hit the road promise me that you’ll let me go.  

"And I'm gonna call that money" - Ashley Pennewill


Fell Apart - (Live Kitchen Recording)

A little tune I wrote after listening to NPR / WNYC Radiolab Valentine's Day podcast "Hard Knock Life." Who knew the little deathwatch beetle could be so darn inspirational? 

http://www.radiolab.org/story/hard-knock-life/

Unlike a flower on the roadside 
I am a beetle in the wood
I wait for days to hear his drumming
And hope I'm not misunderstood

It's not to say that I won't like you
It's not to say that I won't try
But now I hear the drummer coming
And I hope he is my type
(cause he says)

Ra di dum bum bum bum
Ra di dum bum bum bum
Ra di dum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum
Ra di dum bum bum bum
Ra di dum bum bum bum
Ra di dum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum

I waited 15 years to break out
Chewing my way to crystallize
And now I wait to hear my mate come
His beating drum is my whole life
(and he says)

Ra di dum bum bum bum
Ra di dum bum bum bum
Ra di dum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum
Ra di dum bum bum bum
Ra di dum bum bum bum
Ra di dum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum

It's not so easy watching death creep in
If only all these walls could speak
The stories I could tell you of this place
The stories that I can't repeat

Cause I am a flower on the roadside
I'm just a beetle in the frame
Hoping that soon I'll hear his drumming 
Before death comes calling my name


The Deathwatch Beetle

This is the title track off of Tanya Gallagher's new EP "Virginia" set to be released September 30th 2016.

Virginia

Southern Soul

3002 Miles

Album 2017 -  Too Far

Album 2017 - CO Roads

Dark Side

A Little Effort

Barren Land

Mistake

Magic

Dolphin In The Snow

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