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Song for the New York Subway Red Line

from Transmissions to Trappist 1e by Empty Stage

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Recorded with a Samsung Note 3 on an empty stage at the Northern Virginia Community College Alexandria campus.

This is by far the oldest audio here. I only recorded it one month after writing it and two months after picking up guitar for the first time. It has changed a good deal since then, and will sound very different when more fully produced but I have always had a soft spot for this recording.

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The clock strikes two under a flickering light.
The fog tumbles in on a starless night.
We just got out with our favorite band.
We walk down Delancey (a street in NYC) and I hold your hand.
We want to escape the new winter air.
But the local subway is in disrepair.
We cross an old bridge to our favorite park.
Our shadows like ghosts dancing in the dark.

I love this city though I love them all.
With the arts and the music and the buildings so tall.
The Skyscrapers mosaics of white and black.
I left suburbia a year ago I’ll never go back.
The streets are covered with tall dark trees.
Who needs a big yard with nights like these?
So many things to see and even more to do.
But the best thing ‘bout this city’s that it’s where I met you.

We finally stumble into my old brick flat.
It’s a tiny apartment with a little black cat.
I heat up some dinner as you brush your hair.
No-one’s looked prettier than you standing there.
We talk and laugh and sing about the day we’ve had.
I can’t remember times when I was so glad.
The streets outside are as loud as day.
We wouldn’t have slept much anyway.

I love this city though I love them all.
With the arts and the music and the buildings so tall.
The Skyscrapers mosaics of white and black.
I left suburbia a year ago I’ll never go back.
The streets are covered with tall dark trees.
Who needs a big yard with nights like these?
So many things to see and even more to do.
But the best thing ‘bout this city’s that it’s where I met you.

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from Transmissions to Trappist 1e, released May 25, 2017

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These cassettes with Mountain Goats wannabe songs keep showing up with my door with instructions to upload them to bandcamp with vague threats of demon polar bears if I don't comply. He's probably just crazy but have you seen the damage a polar bear can do? Those things could tear through a baseball stadium made of cereal boxes like they were nothing. I'm not going to take my chances. ... more

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