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Seattle Songs EP

by Ryan Amador

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1.
We’re a mother at a funeral We’re a child at the cross We’re a worker with the food stamp We’re a poet with an empty cost We’re a surgeon at the table We’re a drinker with the bends We’re a black man in an all white town & We’re getting lost in the same trends So will you be my friend? Will you be my friend? Will you be my friend? Cause alone is only us we lose again We’re the chicken at the egg farm We’re the waitress at the club We’re the trees we like to climb down We’re the climate and we’re heating up We’re the people at the party We’re the fans who catch the ball We’re the immigrants from which we’re all born & We’re the planners who can’t find a resolve So will you be my friend? Will you be my friend? Will you be my friend? Cause alone is only us we lose again Cause alone is only us we lose again Cause alone is only us We’re the soldier on his last breath We’re the refugee at sea We’re the widow that the bombs left We’re the queer child looking up at me We’re the pedals of the lily We’re the ripples of the marsh We’re the atoms up in Saturn We’re the song playing in the stars So will you be my friend? Will you be my friend? Will you be my friend? Cause alone is only us we lose again
2.
i move in every direction i want to leave this hell waiting for the intersection i want to know myself where will the river turn where will the river turn where will the river turn where will the river turn we were told that it's coming but we're floating in thin air and we're searching for something when we know it isn’t there and we're free to begin again but we run like we don’t care sailin' on this river to nowhere i’m broke in a wild abandon set out on a living spree i leave when my roots get planted no branches to burden me where will the river turn where will the river turn where will the river turn where, where? we were told that it's coming but we're floating in thin air and we're searching for something when we know it isn’t there and we're free to begin again but we run like we don’t care sailin' on this river to nowhere and i know it could be that someone somewhere out there is watching me but i’m lost in my faith so why wouldn’t I be lost in this terrain upstream like a salmon spawning then south like a winter flock my nest is a paper awning waiting to clot to rock where will the river turn where will the river turn where will the river turn where will the river turn
3.
Someone 03:34
I’ve never met someone quite as rich as you I’ve never met someone quite as rich as you But I do what I do I’ve never met someone quite as lost as me I’ve never met someone quite as lost as me But I’m free, you bet I'm free Oh, could you forgive me While I’m wandering through these dreams? There’ll be no reward And I’ll never see my prize I want to be someone I want to be someone In your eyes I’ve never met someone who talks as much as him I’ve never met someone who chokes on all our sins Then he wins You bet he wins Oh, could you forgive me While I’m wandering through these dreams? There’ll be no reward There will be prize You want to be someone You want to be someone And I might die trying I want to be someone I want to be someone In your eyes
4.
Maryanne 04:34
Beast in the belly, for your son’s been slain Awful sorry Maryanne Seems like you gave birth yesterday Back and forth and back again Speed didn’t kill him, nor the century’s pace Awful sorry Maryanne He went to war, fought for that power game Back and forth and back again Say "be grateful" Say "be proud That he stood up From the crowd" And it may rock your bones It may rock your bones That only ghosts could know Only ghosts could know What we’re doing this for Heart flies away, and then it breaks Awful sorry Maryanne 9 months to make and in a minute it fades Back and forth and back again Dreams had him working as a head of state Awful sorry Maryanne Wife and a kid, he had the whole thing made Back and forth and back again Say "we know It’ll hurt" But be sure Of its worth" And it may rock your bones It may rock your bones That only ghosts could know Only ghosts could know What we’re doing this for And it may rock your bones It may rock your bones That only ghosts could know Only ghosts could know What we’re doing this for

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4 acoustic songs written while living in Seattle in the Summer of 2015.

(Lyrics available in Song descriptions)

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released June 2, 2017

Written by Ryan Amador

Produced by Matt Stillo & Ryan Amador
Mixed & Mastered by Matt Stillo
Partial Mixing by Daniel Weidlein

Recorded by Matt Stillo in New York City

Guitar by Matt Sangiovanni

Additional Vocals by Julia Harriman (Tracks 1 & 2), Melissa Lehman (Tracks 2 & 3), & Matt Stillo (Track 3)

Beatboxing by Andrew Flockhart (Track 3)

Cover Image by Steven Rasovsky
Cover Design by Neema Atri

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