Don't matter what you say (live, San Francisco)

from Tully Pond by Orionstar (Frank Cable)

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Live recording made in January, 2010 at the Misson Coffeehouse, Santa Rosa, CA. I came across the South Bay Folk Society during a previous business trip and returned to play these two songs.

The first "Don't matter what you say" is a love song, full of anguish over the loss of a beautiful woman. The song was not written about personal experience, but rather about the emotion of loss.

The second song, "I see a place" was written in one take after waking from a dream one morning. I literally wrote the next verse as I was singing the current verse. I immediately went into some type of depression after doing so, since I don't expect this to happen again- It was a once in a lifetime channelling thing.

This song is about our insulation from the developing world and all the suffering that results from our consumption of material things. The images from this song, arrive from Boston (Red line), San Diego (Mark's apartment), Los Angeles (Surgical operating room) and various NY Times stories about the tragedies in Africa. The final image is from a jungle tent and the old man (Angel) is transported to the reader's paper on a Boston morning, only to be overlooked or "buried".

Lots of imagery in metaphor in this piece. For me, the best song I've ever written.

lyrics

Don't matter what you say
_________________________

Don’t matter what you say
now it’s alright with me.
I’ve been living on my own
for an eternity.

Anyway I’ve got these blues
I just gotta lose.
For everyday that you’re gone
I tell myself I’m moving on.


Am D
I surely wasted my time
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chasing dreams of you
020033
and dreams of having everything.

How could I be so blind,
How could I’ve thought these words
were really gonna save me?

Now pretty lady my, my
why’d you bless me
then just go and forsake me?

I wanna turn back time
I want to keep these hands
from slowly unwinding....

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from Tully Pond, released March 23, 2014

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Music project by Frank Cable, based in Western Massachusetts.

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