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Me And The Lady

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These words were a poem that my father wrote for his mother for mother's day, around 1974. He was going to medical school in Guatelejara, Mexico and of course couldn't make it home, so he composed this poem. My aunt found the poem a couple years ago while going through my grandmother's things after she passed. She let me know right when she found it and sent me a photo of the poem. After I read it, it felt like it was a poem I wrote myself, as a sort of youthful Kerouac-obsessed young man. And so I felt this was a great way for me to connect with my father, to my Grandmother as well, to intertwine our own history's, and to fold together our respective artistic impulses.

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So everything goes slipping, sliding, just a quick life and you can’t hardly hang on
You pick something and you go for it, then it’s gone, it doesn’t matter what
I can’t believe I was ever small, I remember my tiny boots

And how, it was, cold
Montana winter

All bundled up on the ice, there was a girl there about as old as I am now
She was ice skating I think and laughing with me in the snow
She bundled me and brought me there, I slid on the ice
Acted scared
And called her mama

Then a summer came smelling like cut grass, I grabbed her hand downtown
Down a hill and up again I think, and the sailors whistled
At the Pretty Lady, I looked up at her funny
Then, a million summers
Howl by

All that really happens of consequence, is that I loose my innocence
And have to fight every day of my life, to get back
Then we’re on a star together, some big glow in the middle of this puzzled universe
Me, and the lady
Who taught me softness

Me and the lady
Who taught me softness

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released February 18, 2022
Produced by Alex Dunn, Bryant Moore

Credits:
Alex Dunn - Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Background Vocals, Production Coordinator
Bryant Moore - Bass, Background Vocals, Wurlitzer, Electric Organ, Guitar
Cameron Peace - Guitar (Electric)
Sam Esecson - Drums

Tracking Engineer - Robb Davidson
Avast Recording Co.

Mixing Engineer - Robb Davidson
Nels Motel

Mastering Engineer - Greg Calbi
Sterling Sound

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