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Return to Keaukaha

by Sensible Weather

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shadows fall across the room tonight eclipsing every molecule in sight i listen to your sonnet as you sleep i count pentameter instead of sheep i feel myself dissembling in words i couldn't be resembling i lie upon the bed and watch your face discover that i'm gone without a trace shadows turn the room an icy blue illuminating everything but you running through the past is all i do searching for the time of me and you
2.
Saddle Road 05:03
driving the saddle road driving to get more past we climbing climbing the hairy hill climbing the hairy hill a glimpse of a world lit only by snow changes but stays the same driving the saddle road driving to get more past you go by up in the stratosphere up in the stratosphere higher than all the clouds around you walk on the pillowed air driving the saddle road driving to get more past you turn here lost within easy view lost with an easy view when did it ever get so late when could you bring me home driving to get away monotony dwells in hills of fire how could i turn away
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Crawl 02:33
crawl is all i all crawl is not to fall crawl is all i all is all i all and not to fall wave upon the shore wave forever more wave upon the wave upon the wave upon the shore
4.
Music Hangs 03:34
music hangs suspended in the air chords that seem to change when you're not there i had a dream of you just yesterday you were young and strong and i was at play you sat down i put my head upon your knee looking up i claimed you for my memory and i realized that i'd gone back in time and you didn't yet know that you were going to die music hangs suspended in the air chords that seem to change when you're not there i woke up and found myself a world away and i missed you more than ever a song could say and i realized that i'd come back in time and i didn't yet know that i was going to die and i didn't yet know that i was going to die
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(shapes) 02:24
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death came to call, but i shooed him away he was swarming like flies at your window all day but i pulled down the shade, and i hummed a sweet tune now death stands alone underneath the pale moon. death came to call, in a fancy black car he pulled up to our house with the door left ajar but i slammed the door shut, and i locked it up tight now death circles the block with his chauffeur all night. death came to call, on the airwaves tonight reporting disaster on an old black & white but i leaped from my seat, and i switched off the screen now death bounces from rooftop antennas unseen. death came to call, he was right by your side there was no place to go, you had nowhere to hide but i kept a close watch, and held onto your hand and death bowed & receded with his tracks in the sand. not this time, he said, as he vanished from sight, and it started to rain as i switched out the light.
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Ships are sailing away now, trailing lights on up the coast Rain comes down like a curtain, falling on my father's ghost Disappears in a fog bank, even when i need him most. Hanalei Hanala I am hanging from a shooting star that falls from the sky. Hanalei Hanali There are stars that fall all over the sea and so what am i? Crawling out of the darkness, into darkness further still Hope to get to the surface, but i guess i never will Seems so strangely familiar, like a dream i must fulfill. Hanalei Hanala I am burning like a shooting star that falls from the sky. Hanalei Hanali There are stars falling across the sea and so what am i? Hanalei Hanala I am burning like a shooting star that falls from the sky. Hanalei Hanali There are stars burning all over the sea and so what am i? Climbing up on the mountain, all my pockets lined with snow Frost is fire on the windshield, and i know it's time to go All the world could be ashes, and i'd be the last to know. Hanalei Hanala I am wishing on a shooting star that falls from the sky. Hanalei Hanali I am begging on my bended knee and so what am i?
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Do you remember a night when the sky came down the sky came down We were drowning in stars And no moon shone low on the tops of the houses And no moon reflect the face of the sea. And the world disappear with our sadness & fear and i tell you i love you It's so perfectly clear. But the stars, the stars. The stars, the stars.

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All songs by Bill Greene, published by Sensible Music.

This is a reworking of the music I wrote while Megan & I were living in Keaukaha, in Hilo, on the Big Island of Hawai'i in 2000.

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released January 30, 2023

Dedicated to the memory of Gordon Rice, who played these songs with me when they were new, and who made the original recording of me playing them in 2003.

Produced by Amy Morrissey, Brian McTear, & Bill Greene, at Miner Street Recordings, Philadelphia, 2021-22. Engineered and mixed by Brian & Amy.

Mastered by Joe Lambert.

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Sensible Weather Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Bill Greene.

Older recordings released under the name Bile Greene can be found at bilegreene.bandcamp.com

Artist photo: Zoe Cohen

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