Not on Your Team (single) out now
This recording was another collaboration with Ric Hordinski (producer and founding member of Over The Rhine) who contributed a strings arrangement for the tune. The single was tracked with producer Nathan Yacino (Soundgarden/Pearl Jam) in Seattle with Sydney Metcalf on cello, Aleida Gehrels on viola and Tony Green on acoustic bass. Continuing in a tradition of songs inspired by literature (The secret Life of Emily Dickinson, Pleasure to Burn, A Russian Murder Ballad), "Not on Your Team" was inspired by a literary study of The Book of Amos.
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LYRICS
Keeper of sheep
beneath the sycamore tree
Lost his taste for wine
from all those debutantes who would not grieve
Are you sublime, like the morning?
Are you mysterious like the stillness of the deep?
Are you complex like a forest?
I Am not as you seem,
I Am not on your team
He draped himself in the American flag
he wore her wealth like a body bag
The silver tongues of liars flow from rivers into streams
pooling up around the statute of your liberty
Are you sublime, like the morning?
Are you mysterious like the stillness of the deep?
Are you complex like a forest?
I Am not as you seem,
I Am not on your team
She was the church
like a scandalous bride,
took the devil into dine
and he made darkness of her light
Are you sublime, like the morning?
Are you mysterious like the stillness of the deep?
Are you complex like a forest?
I Am not as you seem,
I Am not on your team
The lion roars as shepherds weep, the lion roars...
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