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Almost September

by Chris Peters

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1.
Planets 03:58
And we sat there and talked For a little while About our friends, about each other, About our different faces Another party Another lonely mile Another stop along the road Between the constellations She told me that Her mind had changed And she told me that she wished That she had told you first And she could talk to me any other day But at these parties That’s the time when She misses you worst She said “I’m like a Planet Around another sun But it’s good to know I’m not the only one.” And we talked on the phone yesterday And you told me where you were And where you are And how you’d been And I don’t think there’s any way That I could miss the chance to call Tonight again Cause you pull Planets Around your sun But it’s good to know I’m not the only one Who takes it slow Who lets someone in Then lets them go But then I guess it's good It's good to know And we sat there and talked For a little while And you told me that you wondered How I’d stayed so strong Well is it strength? Or is it just denial? Or it is it only research for another song? Cause I’m like a Planet Around another sun But it’s good to know I’m not the only one
2.
Daisy May 03:10
Have you seen the broken soul The girl with the token role Of always letting bad men break her heart? She’s waiting there on Hawley Street For the next man she’s doomed to meet And in this sadistic way she plays her part But Daisy May I hope someday This lesson you will learn: Don’t give your love away for nothing in return The silence just won’t let her cry But in the corner of her eye Is just the faintest echo of a tear The quiet’s broken by the roar Of waves she left upon the shore The ocean weeps for you, Daisy, my dear Oh Lady May I hope someday This lesson you will find ‘Who you’re with’ is not how you’re defined Daisy, darling, dear You must let go of all that fear It’s fencing in your hopes and dreams Daisy, darling, dear Please believe the things you hear Some things are exactly what they seem to be She’s sitting washed-up by the sea She’s silently ignoring me She’s standing with a seashell to her ear The shadows of her last goodbyes Are ringing in her ears and eyes And echoes are just shadows that we hear But Daisy May I hope someday These words will ease your mind What’s up ahead deserves what came behind But Daisy May I hope someday This lesson you will learn: Don’t give your love away for nothing in return
3.
Wasted Hours 03:39
I finally got up the nerve To talk some sense to you I called you up To find out you’re not home Because I’m done with doing things That you compel me to And I’m done With Wasted Hours on the phone It’s hard to find the promises worth keeping Decisions get so hard for me to make Because I think I like you best When you are sleeping But I think I sleep the best When you’re awake And if you say you don’t need me Don’t you worry baby, I don’t mind But if you want, you wanna leave me Don’t you leave me baby on the line Don’t you leave me On the line There’s a tree in my backyard That we’d hang on to And talk And shoot the breeze And waste the day Now I’m not sentimental; I just want to Let you know how I got To thinking about you this way And if you say you don’t need me Don’t you worry baby, I don’t mind But if you want, you wanna leave me Don’t you leave me baby on the line Don’t you leave me On your way To someone you think loves you Better than me Cause I promise you There ain’t no such thing Cause it’s good to get some space, To get some distance It’s good to leave your worries on the shelf But if you want the path of least resistance You’re gonna have to walk it by yourself And if you say you don’t need me Don’t you worry baby, I don’t mind But if you want, you wanna leave me Don’t you leave me baby on the line Don’t you leave me On the line
4.
The Sideman 04:03
She hands me a lined sheet of paper and says That she thinks that I’ve heard this before And the verses start quiet And the chorus rings true And I know that she means it for sure And the music flows down from our shoulders And out through our fingers In four-quarter time And when I close my eyes I can almost believe that it’s mine And Saturday nights on the microphone They make me miss you, wherever you are Cause up there I’m The Sideman When you make me feel like the star So I called up a friend from the old days and said “How you been? Are you busy tonight?” And we sat by the pool and we traded old stories And lapsed into silence, but that felt alright And I know that the old days ain’t so long ago But there’s a gap like the I-95 Is two thousand miles too far For two friends to survive? And it’s driving me crazy, this missing you Any distance to you is too far Cause in my mind I’m The Sideman When you make me feel like the star And tomorrow I know I’ll feel better Cause I know that’s just how these things are But tonight I’m The Sideman When you make me feel like the star
5.
I had to chop down the tree We used to climb when we were kids The one where you always hid When we played hide and seek And I always knew you’d be In that weeping Willow Tree I always found you first inside the boughs And you would feign surprise That I had somehow realized That you were hiding there And you’d swear to me that you had seen A bear beneath the trampoline You’d cross your heart and hope to die And I would pray to God that it was not a lie Cause I didn’t want to lose you And you’d tell me you’d had a dream About strangest things you’d ever seen You’d wish to God that you could fly So maybe you could touch the sky Cause you thought that might amuse you I got rid of the old bike too The one we learned to ride Back when we were five You went first as was always true And I faithfully followed you As with everything you’d do You sped on down the hill Till you reached the end The ledge led through the tomato patch And when I knew I couldn’t catch you You laughed and tumbled down And you’d swear to me that I was wrong That you knew it would not be long Before we grew up, became adults And learned exciting new insults Forbidden by our mothers But I know that you never dreamed that Before then, we’d be seventeen With different friends and different lives And a friendship we could not revive, We just could not recover So for every skinned knee and broken bone, Every shoelace and every ice cream cone For every bear beneath the trampoline And paper planes from magazines For snowmen built and snowballs thrown For learning how to work the phone For birthday cakes, for pillow forts, For stupid insults, worse retorts For every game of tag and hide and seek For that kiss you gave me on the cheek For all the hours watching bad TV For Every Second In That Willow Tree For every single memory And dream we made come true The boy I was says thank you
6.
Insomniac 04:48
I keep having this dream And I know I go But I gotta see my old home I gotta go home I keep checking the time And I know I know That I gotta see my old home I gotta go home Cause the walls are blue like the morning sky And there’s a notch on my banister Fifty feet high And there’s a hundred million things I need to know But the road’s too icy and the highway’s too far And a blonde-haired man stole the key to the car And I wake up long before I ever go So get some sleep she said But I get to bed And I stare at the ceiling And through my worried mind I look behind And I get the feeling I’m wasting my time You know it’s no good to act tough Insomniac never gets enough Well I went to the doctor and she said “You know, I’m not sure what you wanna hear But you know there’s always pills, son No shame in pills” There’s a trial size vial on the nightstand And I’ve almost tried some three times now And if I can’t sleep tonight I think I will Cause I could wake up tomorrow With the world at the door Get rid of uncertainties and know them for sure And find chaos in the order of The things I used to know Or I could fall to a fever of a hundred and three And see how things ain’t the way they should be And become the token robot From a science fiction show And cars on the interstate a mile away They hum and then they’re gone And the smoke alarm blinks on and off and on and off and on If I keep having this dream I’ll have to let go I might never see my old home I might never go home But if I wake up tomorrow then at least I’m alive Cause you only wake up from sleeping I think I’m starting to find that there’s a limit To how crazy I can go And if I ever let go of that childhood home When I get there I’ll know this place is my own And not the latent shadow of a place I didn’t really ever know So get some sleep she said But I get to bed And I stare at the ceiling And through my worried mind I look behind And I get the feeling It’s all in good time You know it’s no good to act tough Insomniac never gets enough
7.
I’ve been thinking about every song that I know —There’ve been songs about money, ‘Bout places to go— But my favorite songs, they’re love song Because everyone knows how that goes. So I’ll sing you a song ‘bout a girl that I knew But I warn you: this story, it’s pretty much true And as you can see If it could happen to me It could probably happen to you And maybe someday I’ll forget her —But it sure is hard When I can see her front porch From my backyard— And we love and we lose And we try to move on And we try to forget All the things that went wrong But I can’t forget that girl next door Well it’s hard to believe it was two years ago That I told her I love her and she said “I know” When I kissed her I missed How she whispered my name I tried calling for weeks; no reply ever came And I thought we were perfect I’m sure you’d agree She was glib, she was smart She was awkward like me But we were doomed from the start —We were better apart— And it tore out my heart at the seams And maybe someday I’ll forget her —But it sure is hard When I can see her front porch From my backyard— And it looks like my heart’s been recovering fine But it won’t be the same as before she was mine Cause I can’t forget that girl next door Well it’s been a few years since that hapless affair And I’ve learned not to lean on a love that’s not there Maybe someday she’ll think that she made a mistake But at least I know my heart’s not easy to break And maybe someday I’ll forget her —But it sure is hard When I can see her front porch From my backyard— And I’ve been thinking about every song that I know —There’ve been songs of regret, About say-it-ain’t-so— But I still like the sound of a love song Because everyone knows how that goes.
8.
We sat and watched the water And she said she’d take it no more Because why be the ship captain’s daughter Who does as she ought to and waits by the shore? And when I look back on the way that it was I think of that moment and smile because I can still smell the ocean I still see her smile as she sailed away We went to Coney Island And she read a book on the merry-go-round And she rose to the tangerine sky And she called out like Icarus all the way down And when I look back on the way that it was I think of that moment and smile because If it weren’t for the sunshine Her wings might have carried us both away [We sipped her cinnamon tea And I told her a joke that I can’t quite recall And she laughed at the joker, or maybe at me —Or perhaps at the snow that was starting to fall?— And when I look back on the way that it was I think of that moment and smile because Though I’d rather have coffee At her house it wasn’t for me to say] Well darlin’, it’s Almost September And we might be saying goodbye before long But if you forgive me, I hope you remember That just cause I’m going Doesn’t mean I’ll be gone And when I look back on the way that we are The way that we are right here Lying together on somebody’s car And watching the sun disappear I’ll think of us laughing And smile at you back through the years

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What seems like a collection of Singer/Songwriter-era pop songs is actually a life in vignettes; underneath acoustic rock hooks and vibrant woodwind-and-brass arrangements are stories of friendship and distance, love and loss, awkward neighbors, and growing up.

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released August 1, 2012

Chris Peters: All Vocals, All Guitars, Bass
Owen Evans: Drums
Caleb Chapman: Bass (tracks 3 and 7)
Caitlin Fitzpatrick: Saxophones
Emily York: Trumpet
JT Lincoln: Piano
Molly Gambardella: Trombone
Grace Kenney: French Horn
Myles Mocarski: Clarinet
Olivia Gatison: Flute

Recorded, Engineered, Mixed and Mastered by Travis Bell at Adorea Recording Studio

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