Love, Lenny Halliday

Love, Lenny Halliday - MP3

lyrics

pressed between the pages of the book
we found by the train tracks
smudged with soot and folded into thirds

the postage had been cancelled so we guessed
the envelope made it
then we found the pictures of the birds

said one "the swiss are private men of means"
said one "a ghost can never lose her way"
"each uniform the pride of brown and beige"
"each sings a song both beautiful and brave"

"ferris wheel in ninety-three" was 
printed carefully under
a diagram we couldn't understand

the final card was torn but there was
no mistaking the message
dictated to a tightly-looping hand:

"i shouldn't let you go but how else is the world to change?
earth spins, see?
earth spins, see?

i wonder at the places you left prints
your steady hands no less for being small
send hope my love and chance the rest she craves
my heart became a bird and flew away"

music

chords

Verse:

A/E E9 b7/F# F+
f#/C# D A c#/G#
D/F# A/E D A/C#
E7/B E

A/E E9 b7/F# f0
f# F+ A/E c# 
b/D A/C# b A
E7

Chorus:

A  f#  b  g#%7
E9  E  A  c#/G#
D  F#  b9  b
E D A

structure

A

author's comments

i'm doing this new thing where i'm recording super short demos into my tiny USB MP3 player. i may re-record and expand this, but for the moment, the sound of this version seems appropriate.

the song is my tribute to sj, dk, ec, lh, and jj. especially ec, since i wrote it with her departure in mind.

i seem to only be able to write four-line songs lately. i am not sure that's awesome.

i love the passerines. thank you, ladies and gentleman.

Added some more lyrics up there in anticipation of expanding this tune to full length some day soon. Gabemcelwain 18:20, 13 June 2008 (PDT)

comments

i love the passerines, too! -ec