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Nostalgia incarnate. Old friends and discovery, growing up, growing old -- remembering. Very folksy rocky -- a little bluesy -- deceptive in it's "sing-song" quality -- rather like Theatre of the Absurd on acoustic guitar. |
CD: Ganymede
Label: NMA
Credits: (c) 2003 D. Byron Patterson. All Rights Reserved. |
Story Behind the Song
This is about my growing up -- it's a coming of age kinda thing, I suppose. I will not reveal the secret behind the song here, although it is rather amusing. Guess you'll have to ask me in person, huh?
Lyrics
Twilight
My family moved in '79
I left 7 years of my life behind me
A brand new house, a neighborhood
Concrete driveway lying
Where the streetlamp stood
Suburban children greetin' me --
Derek, Jimmy, Larry,
And his little chubby brother --
His name was Dusty
That was when my life had begun
Six years of playing
Like birds in the sun --
Dusty was a Weeble, but he'd always fall down
Jimmy and Derek were laughers --
Larry was the clown
Hurricane David, swimmin' pools
Playing hide-n-seek at midnight
When we had no rules
Baseball cards and cigarettes --
Walkin' through empty gardens --
Huh, no fruit yet
Climbing trees with everyone --
We sang together
Like birds in the sun --
You know we'll always have fun
Saturday afternoon was the same
Running through the forest behind the houses
Playing new games
Like jump the river,
Let's live in a tree
We didn't notice anybody was laggin' behind
Where was Dusty?
Where he went we'll never know
But it was suppertime callin' us
So we had to go
Twilight's blanket made us run --
We flocked together
Like birds in the sun --
You know we'll always have fun
Stickball Sunday, pickin' fights --
Larry came to tell us that
His brother had been missin' since last night
Search parties, telephone call
You gotta realize that when the bough breaks The cradle will fall
Rainy days with Dusty gone --
We huddled together
Like birds in the sun
Teacher teach us to behave
Strangers greet us, so we run into our cave
Tender years have slipped away
Sleep tonight and never see the day
It's been ten years since Dusty's death
Out, out brief candle --
But you got no breath
Larry and his family moved away
Derek got married last year,
And hell if I'd stay
Macho men in Tuffskin jeans
We were never sheltered
From what could have been
Now in my memory,
We still have fun
And I'll always remember the days when I was
A bird in the sun --
You know we'll always have fun
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