Follow me

1 week ago by @cmharwood89 · @tan482

Follow me

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Liner Notes

@cmharwood89: I've never collaborated, never mixed multiple stringed instruments, never tried singing harmony lines, etc... But I've heard Tanya's terrific banjo, violin, fiddle, and vocals elevating enough songs on FAWM that I jumped at the opportunity to collaborate. And she delivered - just listen to that fiddle solo!

@tan482:
I heard Casey’s song “Cheap Talk” and loved it, then I saw in his profile that he had never done a collab before so I reached out. So glad I did! This song really cast a spell on me straight away and I found myself humming it even when I wasn’t working on it. My solo vocal lines really tested my vocal limits but I think Casey totally nailed his!

Contributions:
@cmharwood89 - Lyrics, Guitars (acoustic + electric), vocals
@tan482 - Fiddle, banjo, vocals

#folk #acoustic #duet #fiddle #whybotherwithachorus

Lyrics

You said, "Follow me, though I've no clue where to go"
And trusting every track you laid, I laid into the path unknown

I found myself, unsettled and alone
Is this dark a shadow that we cast or just a moon that never

shone, that never shone?
Did we cast so large a shadow or was it a moon that never shone?

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I said, "I'll find my way, although I doubt I'll ever know"
Which twisting trail is sympathetic to my fear of overgrowth

I heard you gasp, with a loathing in your tone
You said "I left the door unlocked and now I dread the devil's in our

home. He's in our home!
He's settled down to see the town and cool his heels inside our peaceful home."

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We found him there, his barstool like a throne,
Pounding out a whiskeyed sermon on ivory keys as white as bone.

His rye-soaked laugh, made manic by the tones.
You kicked the legs right out from under, finding all his menace

overblown; But not your own…
The demon laid upon the boards, you'd taken all his power for your own.

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FIDDLE!
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I'll follow you, as you flee into the cold.
Hands in fists and heart that pounds a rhythm like a metronome

Now you're on your knees, digging through the loam
Searching for some sanity beside the crossroads, under every

Stone. Beneath the stones.
That chained-up id that once you hid under a pile of weather-beaten stone.

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You said "make haste, we've still so far to go"
And soon our flight exceeds the night and leaves us with a dream we've not

Outgrown. We've not outgrown.
Night conjures up the vines of anxious minds and waters them with the unknown.
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You said "follow me, though I've no clue where to go"
"You've trusted in my footsteps every night before, so why should you
postpone?"

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