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From the album 'Only Good Thoughts Can Stay' (2011) • Pay what you want http://tndr.lv/1bQF218

It was something they said was against their disposition.
All the planning, and preening and pomp!
But there she was in white, just coming down the aisle,
with her hand through her father's arm.
As I began the program on that hot August night,
I saw my son's eyes glint with red as he looked to the seat
where his mother would've sat and saw a vase of flowers instead.
And you must've seen it all because you played the processional.
You know what it’s like living with someone who's living,
but just won't be living for long.
And at the reception you whispered, "just hold on"
At the heart of it, we're still just a couple kids
hitting pots and pans along to some inaudible song.
And I've come to trust it can't be sung without us.
It is the breath, we are the lungs, this much I know.
She plays more than music she plays what saves my soul.
Ten months later I flew out to see him, (you and I'd been together for two).
It did not go well, he told me to go to hell,
when I told him about me and you.
He said "I like her fine as my old music teacher
and she's great as a family friend,
but it hasn't been a year and now you're standing here
saying you want to get married again?"
I said, "You know how hard it’s been. You were there at the end.
But you say 'go on living' but I'm tired of living if I'm gonna be living alone.

Constant lineup changes and improvised, infrequent rehearsals would cause many bands to suffer, but they’ve become the lifeblood of Jared Mees & The Grown Children, giving the group’s live shows a devil-may-care energy and keeping the songs honest and raw. The most recent incarnation of the Grown Children recorded 2011’s Only Good Thoughts Can Stay, at Portland’s storied Type Foundry studio. The result was the band’s most complex, rich, and fully realized album to date, full of the sprawling epic soundscapes and lucid lyrical imagery that Jared Mees & The Grown Children have come to be known for.

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