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The lyrics are overtly autobiographical about Dave’s growing up in Nebraska. It feels like an art-song, the meter changes matching the emphasis of the lyrics and not merely an acrobatic exercise. With this band it took on a little more of a 60’s-70’s Miles Davis funky vibe, suggesting that Dave’s imagination is taking him to other parts of the world and deep philosophical concerns, far away from the fields of his youth.
lyrics
Down the riverbed, the cranes are skimming low,
Deciding where to land
Their wheeling and turning don't help them know.
This I understand
When the morning mist is hanging in the air,
concealing things below,
There's longing and yearning to find somewhere,
someone to call my home.
Cast a line into the stillness of a lake
and look to see it move.
The watching and waiting keep me awake,
Nothing else to prove.
As my mind reflects the stillness of the scene,
one thought keeps floating by:
I am what I do, and I do no thing;
So then, just who am I?
The thermometer says minus five degrees,
the sun is burning cold,
my body behaves like its under seige,
Closing off the world.
If I ever wondered what it means to live
as human, self-aware,
my heartbeat, resisting that five below
Told me all I need to know
credits
from Thornewood,
released January 8, 2021
by David Thorne Scott
(Hopeful Romantic Publishing, ASCAP)
Arranged by David Thorne Scott
David Thorne Scott: voice
Kevin Barry: electric guitar
Mark Shilansky: piano
Marty Ballou: electric bass
Austin McMahon: drums
Walter Smith III: tenor saxophone
Jason Palmer: trumpet
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