Cat Stevens

from Rearview by Andrew Robert Palmer

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I had some killer horn parts prepped for this one, but Brad couldn't make the session. I had an old trumpet from my grandpa, though, so I tried to learn the parts myself the week before the session. I swear by Thursday I was NAILING the trumpet bits, but I'll be darned if by the time the session rolled around, I was back to being rubbish at the trumpet again. Thanks to Molly for putting up with my practicing, even if it was all for naught.

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Evening star
Hanging high over my backyard
I wax poetic, it's pathetic so far -
I'm not that smart
I spent an hour in my car

With Cat Stevens on -
the only thing that can keep me calm
when it just seems like everything's wrong
wish I could call my mom
and tell her what's been going on

She'd say: "hold it now.
There's no reason to have a cow.
You could never let me down
for any reason. You can always count on me"

And I think, maybe, a moonshadow follows me
after all

I get so mad at all the misfortune I seem to attract
No, I'm so fortunate. I take that back. Things aren't that bad...
My mind goes back and forth like that

'Till I'm breaking down.
"Oh Very Young" brings me back somehow
"Father and Son" brings me back somehow
When I'm down and out, I take a vow to forget about

All the stupid shit
that I just gotta deal with
I drink and smoke and spit,
tell myself to get over it, get on with it -

I think I need a shrink
And maybe a moonshadow follows me after all

It's a wild, wild world
and I'm a child crying underneath it all
wish I could feel myself curled
next to you in a feet-pajama ball

Outside the bar, it's a pretty warm night for March
I'm blowing smoke at an evening star in the distance
when things get hard, I search for meaning in evening stars,
Cat Stevens and reading Tarot cards... what's the difference?

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from Rearview, released March 3, 2021

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I'm a regular guy doing a very small thing.

Chicago-based. Sometimes rock, sometimes folk.

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