New Song - "lovehungry"

About this song:

In the following order:

1. I was visiting my parents and found some funny poetry that I wrote back in high school.
2. I heard Frances' amazing cover of Yeats' The Lake Isle of Innisfree on FAWM.
3. John A sent me a guitar piece he'd recorded and asked me if I wanted to add some lyrics.
4. I made the obvious mental leap.

My process:

1. Listened to John's guitar part once or twice just to get a rough idea of how it goes.
2. Recorded myself singing the poem-- no planning, no second takes. I wanted to come up with something as raw and organic as possible (mmm raw and organic).

I might come back to this later-- ask John to re-record the guitar to a click-track, add some loops, tighten up the lyrics, etc. The ending is really abrupt right now and it's because I ran out of music and couldn't finish the poem, ha.

Also, John's guitar-ing is really beautiful, but every time I get to the part where I sing "to make the whole like the hole in me" I start laughing. Oh, high school.

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lovehungry

sweet hell-bent
lovehungry:
your desire swells to me like
a red balloon at the Fair
on a hot summersticky after noon

but still not Fair as i wished
on a well you'd be,
thirsty for my kiss, but
still doorslamming mad,
i'm wanting to bash in the
wall to make the
whole like the hole
in me--

but i'm all emptied out like my
crack ed coffee cup
and you are the glue
i need

how many
doors opened last tuesday
to your heart

New Song - "Thirty Below"

About this song:

I'm so thankful for winter here, even when it's feet upon feet of snow and thirty below zero. Boots crunching through the snow, I look around and all I can think is that-- in just a few short months-- all of this snow will be green grass and flowers, flip flops slapping the sidewalk. And I feel so lucky to live in a place that can be beautiful in so many different ways.

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Thirty Below

Two feet of snow and it's thirty below
But all I know
Is all I can see is snow for miles and miles
But in a few months it will be green grass

Dogs playing in the park
Birds singing songs about love
And little children on their bikes
Ice cream drippin' off a cone
And skirts swirling 'round my calves
And I've maybe got a tan

Birds singing overhead and
Singing songs about love and
Maybe I'll fall in love, too

At least once a day I find myself
Walking down the street
And I've got a smile on my face
And I don't know why

It's times like these when I wish
I was a religious person
So I'd know who to thank
Instead I just send up a thank you
Like a birthday balloon
And hope that someone catches it

New Song - "Tell Me Now"

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Tell Me Now

That night in your kitchen
Clock ticking so heavily
You asked me what I was thinking
I'll tell you now

AM radio
Playing so softly through the doorway
Lying in bed
With the only one I ever loved

I am telling you now

If there's a chance for us anymore
Tell me now