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POST​-​PUNK TRANNY​-​FOLK

from OVER THE ROAR OF THE ENGINE by Richard Laviolette and the Glitterbombs

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This is a friend song. I wrote this song about one of my best friends. In late Fall, we drove up to a Quaker camp near Sturgeon Bay. We spent the night in the main hall where it would usually be warm and bustling, but now was quiet, cold and winterized. We re-lit the pilot light on the gas stove, removed silverware from plastic bags, and carried firewood in from outside to start the woodstove. After dinner we stayed close to the fire and invented songs on the upright piano, viola and guitar. Over the course of the night we found my friend's name etched into walls and wood beams. Not the name she uses now, but her old name. For me, it was an interesting way to think about her transition. Her new name is alive and well, being shared and spoken amongst friends, and her old name left frozen to the cold rafters of a log cabin three hours north of Toronto.

lyrics

KEY: G
4/4

INTRO:
G D Am Em
G D Am G

VERSE 1:

G D
One night to warm the skin

Am Em
One more tired year we tracked in

G D Am G
Relit the pilot light and gently settled in


VERSE 2:

Coals glow and fall apart
Wood whistles with hungry hearts
We sat and wrote the songs
And quickly learned our parts

VERSE 3:

Painted on the bathroom door
Etched in the attic floor
Carved in the window frame
You left your name behind

VERSE 4:

You make the clothes fit you
Crop old lines with new tattoos
A good seamstress has to choose
The curves she will let shine


CHORUS:
Em D
On your drafty bedroom floor
I sat close to you
C Bm
While waiting through the storm
Am G
You introduced me to
D
The loneliness that Julie brought
Am
On Goodnight Nobody

INSTRUMENTAL:

G D Am Em
G D Am Em D
G D Am Em
G D Am G

VERSE 5:

You wrote a thousand songs
Post-punk tranny-folk sing-alongs
Like Stipe, your voice is warm and heady


VERSE 6:

Dookie shirts and cut-off skirts
Beet-stained lamp shades stole from work
You know where shooting stars come from
Don't you?

CHORUS

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from OVER THE ROAR OF THE ENGINE, track released January 1, 2013

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