strokes cover

and live performance https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHWqIMOv-ZI

barely legal

based on the craigslist post, "I met you in the rain on the last day of 1972" https://www.craigslist.org/about/best/bos/5237173491.html?lang=en&cc=gb

lyrics:

i cast a coin
into the well
and wish i could explain
you saved my life that afternoon
i met you in the rain
 
the morning of
a new year's eve
when no one’s feeling sane
a charcoal sky was opening
i met you in the rain
 
i trudged into
the grey deluge
to shower off my shame
it drenched me in a flash before
 
i looped around
the symph’ny hall
beyond the fenway lane
you sat under the balcony
 
your brown hair kissed
your freckled face
a bottle of champagne
i couldn’t tell if you had cried
cause i met you in the rain
 
we laughed a lot
perhaps because
what else could we attain
the counter at the five and dime
i met you in the rain

you told me that
you didn’t love
that banker and his chain
confessed that you would leave him now

the union ended
just as fast
and sudden as it came
one moment here, one moment gone
 
sometimes i smell
that killing smoke
the motor from the plane
i question why i should deserve
to meet you in the rain

i’m older now
i’ve seen the world
the beauty and the pain
i’ve made my peace with loneliness
i met you in the rain

i met you in the rain

lyrics

someday i will shave my head
get some legit prescriptions
and live in Petaluma again

i'll wake up like i want to
then I will quote the internet
i'll get really good at convincing myself
i won't need you again

i'll forget things
like all the times that need forgiving
i'll get addicted to something a little more cute
than binge drinking

if the past is whatever with you
that is chill and i'll respect that
you didn't stick around I know
but you came back

don't hold too tight
but don't let go

they'll know us
by our names at the 7/11
and when the sirens ring on the first of the month
we'll just accept it

the bottom drops out on crypto
and gas is ten dollars for a gallon
we'll never buy a house
we'll never own shit
we'll be happy to rent our garden

don't hold too tight
but don't let go

i'll go where you go
i don't need a map to cross a hallway

i won't need north star
'cause that's what you are
but you're never in the same place

and when it all falls apart
and you know that it totally will
you don't have to stick around
i'll be fine on my own
or at least i'll say I will

don't hold too tight
but don't let go

3-Point Sinker - Petaluma

Devil Town

story about music #1
Between Two Elverums

Why can't one musician escape an album he released fifteen years ago? 

now available on iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/stories-about-music/id1037075754?mt=2

Episode 1: Between Two Elverums (Mount Eerie)

Free download: https://liance.bandcamp.com/album/the-golden-flesh

The Golden Flesh

Phlebas

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/6gMTCel2x7F8tCeD4zK2wn?si=xQ15J4DdT6WKGKkc2gjyPg

Free download: https://liance.bandcamp.com/album/the-golden-flesh

Lyrics: 

you were under the weather this time last December 
driving to your parents’ house 
the night was turning blue, we were listening to Sun Kil Moon 
before your face turned out 
when the first set ends all are saved 
the kids mean well but they still 
stub their cigs out in your eyes 
before I slip into that television blue 

Can I trust you? 
Can I want you? 

sometimes I feel it like the chain of a bike 
wrapped around my index finger 
but tonight I’ll try to stay alive so I can sleep by your side 
and not worry about the government 
I woke up on a coliseum night 
from a dream that my hand sunk into my face 
and like Ezra Pound’s broken raft 
my bed was wet with residue 

Can I trust you? 
Can I want you?

Ellie Takes a Bath

Off-Brand Almond Milk

This is my interview that I did with Phil Elverum in mid-January that originally aired on KSSU.com. We spoke about Phil's then unannounced upcoming album, his 2015 release Sauna, touring during the wake of 9/11 (something touched on in his new song Distortion)and his artistic approach among many other things. This is first interview that Phil has done since 2014.

Devil Town

thejamesli

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