Monday, 8 February 2016

Song A Week 2016 - Picture of Me with Aaron Ellingsen and Jeanne Tolmie

One of the best things about doing this blog is using it as a catalyst to get together with friends and see what happens. Aaron Ellingsen, Jeanne Tolmie and I are frequent collaborators and it was fun and interesting to get together and have a run at this song.

Picture of Me
is a song I wrote a few years back that will be released on my upcoming album New Blues.  The studio version is a pretty cool stripped down arrangement - just accordion, Marek Tyler on drums, and my daughter Chloe Lampman singing backups.  This version - which we jammed out and recorded in about an hour or so - has a Cajun folkey feel thanks to Aaron Ellingsen's fiddle arrangement



 Picture of Me 

Do you remember that picture of me in a wheat field with that lean brown dog
his hound dog dink was lipstick pink and a red-tail hawk flew over and gave us a wink
And the Alberta sky was as blue as the Aegean Sea
do you remember 
remember that picture of me
And the Alberta sky was as blue as the Aegean Sea
will you remember
will you remember me
And a great long soft white cloud like a feather
stretched across the sky
And it was two hours and twenty-five minutes
before I said good-bye

Do you remember 
do you remember that picture of me
will you remember 
will you remember me
Do you remember 
do you remember that picture of me
will you remember 
will you remember me

Do you remember that picture of me in the bright white light with a galloping horse
my eyes were two black holes
portals to an underworld hotel
where the menacing ceilings hover over cold cold beds
like conquering aliens from the darkness over head
and dirty curtains guard the windows where we sleep
will you remember
will you remember me
And a thick soft swollen grey cloud like the belly of a whale 
filled the sky
And it was twenty-two years twenty two days
two hours and twenty-five minutes
after I said good-bye

Do you remember 
do you remember that picture of me
will you remember 
will you remember me
Do you remember 
do you remember that picture of me
will you remember 
will you remember me

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