Tuesday Project.
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This week is a cool one for me because I think it’s the first time I’ve been able to share Meathawk. It’s a recording of a rehearsal…so it’s by no means flawless, in fact the lyrics are below mostly because I screwed them up a couple times. This lyric is complete, I think.
Folks keep saying to me that they like it when I talk about the song. I used to hate this, I kinda still do, but it seems like a thing to do, right? A way to connect. I’m not so good with the enigmatic anymore. It’s called 4 and a half snapshots and that’s what it is. I’m not willing to divide these shots for you so your math is as good as mine, but it deals with the way I think.
I don’t have a visual way of thinking. I think in words and not images. I love pictures because I can rarely remember anything about the way things look. I can’t remember your face right now, if you’re wondering. I know this because I can’t recall my wife’s face. It’s there, but it’s not. I recognize things well, but remembering doesn’t work.
Sometimes, I get snapshots. On a good day I have a few burned images in my head – mostly trivial things, common things. I seem to lose the important things first. This is the end of a relationship told in a series of images, connected only by the subject and relevant to each other mainly because they are a collective memory.
It’s how I lose time. I lose time by losing the moments. It’s a song song, trying to hold together something that’s dead and dying on a completely different level as our memory becomes obscure and, ultimately, unreliable. You lose someone and then you just keep losing them as they go out of focus and then become something only half of what they were as your memory and desire to make sense of things fills in the blanks. I’m in love with this song. I hope you will be, too. Thanks again for coming by today.
The Kevin Trudo + Meathawk is:
Me, Ron Donavon playing guitars, Justin O’Connell drumming and Chad Watson as Meat Bass.
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I looked to check the time
So at 7:39 she finally said some things I
Needed to hear
She looked down and then away
To watch the things she’s gonna say
Slip out of sight and sadly disappear
And all this time
There’s a farm house close to town
With the corn crib coming down
Every time I drive by I think of you
Now there’s no knock at the door and
No one calls you anymore
They won’t stop by any time soon
And all this time
All this time
Your hair spills out where we lie
Tickles my lips and nose and eyes
If I get that chance again you know I will
Everybody says that’s one smart girl
And smart’s good but pretty’s better
Last time I looked we were in love, still
And all this time
All this time
All this time.
There are 19 Comments to "Tuesday Project."
Ha! ok ok – I didnt expect this, I was thinking a deeper kt track- Guitars sound good- I want this program. hook it up! Good job
cb
Your cello work is pretty good…
thanks!
sweet! Haven’t heard this one in a few moons- Great song!
fucking awesome.
A beautiful noise that changed my mood.
Thank you! I appreciate that.
Very nice!
Like it very much!
Once again, I like it very much. The music and the truth in the lyrics…
Ii know this song
I feel like an insider and I enjoy that.
Great lyric! This is a country song like I ain’t heard for a while!
Damn boy…nice
So glad I was up.
hang in there. You’ve got incredible talent that brings a lot of joy to many people.. most of us learn to put words to our own fears and insecurities by listening to others, such as yourself, who are able and willing to express theirs. I recently asked a good friend, why is it that when I feel I’m being the most courageous and true to myself, I’m also the loneliest? she told me, I think it’s because it makes you stop leaning on anything or anyone while you get your feet under you. I think that’s true. There is actually wisdom to be learned through depression, empowerment gained through betrayal.
LOVE the melody. . . not so fond of the lyrics.
Nice piece of work all the way around here. Floors me you got this all wrapped in one evening. Really dig the juxtaposition of the cheery instrumentation and the scary as %@#& lyric. Smiling thru the pain. Great production. Nice brother!
Fantastic!! Really dig this one, guys!
Kevin…You never cease to amaze me with your ability to have the same emotions as me at almost the same time! Very opposite ,but also parallel universes maybe???. I dont know how you’ve managed to do that all these years but from the bottom of my heart…THANK YOU BROTHER!!!