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[AnneS]

(Okay, you opened, but you still don't have to click the link! )

 

It's been a while, but here's a new one that came just today. If you can stand the rough edges and pitchy-ness, you might enjoy this little end-of-the-world ditty.

 

Once I found "you can grow a new aorta, you can print a plastic knee..," I kinda knew I had to go with it.

 

In Parting

[MorrisrownSal]

Great song Anne!

 

Did you record it all one take or separate tracks? I ask because I'd love to hear your voice a little more relative to the guitar. If this is one take, then maybe position the mic a little closer and higher to your voice? I dont know - maybe I am just getting old and losing higher frequency!

 

The lyrics I dig. Although I think the government is gone.Something to do with lobbyists...

 

I would listen to an entire set of yours grinning and relaxing any day of the week.

[AnneS]

Great song Anne!

 

Did you record it all one take or separate tracks? I ask because I'd love to hear your voice a little more relative to the guitar. If this is one take, then maybe position the mic a little closer and higher to your voice? I dont know - maybe I am just getting old and losing higher frequency!

 

The lyrics I dig. Although I think the government is gone.Something to do with lobbyists...

 

I would listen to an entire set of yours grinning and relaxing any day of the week.

 

Hey thanks, Sal. Yes, it was all one take- meant just to capture the guts of the thing and having very little production value whatsoever. But your points are good ones- as usual. 👍

 

I saw the movie "Particle Fever" the other day-a documentary about looking for and finding the Higgs-Boson particle (which I highly recommend), and seeing the intelligent passion of all those scientists tempered my general bad mood about the state of things, tipping me--if only briefly--back toward something like a glimmer of hope that, in spite of overwhelming evidence to the contrary, human beings and their collective breadth of imagination can be spectacularly awesome.

 

For fun, here are the lyrics...

 

In Parting

Anne Stieber © 2014

 

The ocean is rising every day;

you can’t see it yet,

but that is what they say

And next years’ storms will pack a bigger punch;

this is science, kids, and not some kooky hunch.

I lie awake at night,

and I wonder what to say

To all the young ones out there now

who’ll witness come what may

 

You can grow a new aorta,

you can print a plastic knee

You can organize a march of the brave and free

To take back your government,

rebuild it brick by brick

You can do these things,

but you better do ‘em quick.

 

The end of all things is drawing near;

you can’t feel it yet,

but that is what I hear

You'll be around, but I’ll have moved along;

And I’m so sorry I can’t right one single wrong.

So what to tell you, darlings

—the children of my heart

About the broken future,

about your heavy part?

 

You can find the last particle,

you can climb the last peak

You can come to the aid of the old and weak

You can build a new tomorrow

from the complicated past

You can do these things,

but you better do ‘em fast.