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A gentle love song, about the joy brought into life by the subject.
alternative acoustic folk antifolk female vocal 12 string hippie jangly
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folk, acoustic, hippie, anti-folk, alternative, jangly, singer-songwriter, weird chords
Paper Cats is a lover's duo. We range through folk and anti-folk to rougher electrified rock and blues; Chris plays guitars--six string, twelve string, classical acoustic, electric, you name it--and Lauren mostly sings. Some of our work is Chris's solo guitar composition, some Lauren's solo ballads, but increasingly our work is collaborative, usually with Chris writing guitar parts and Lauren writing vocal parts. We are enjoying ourselves immensely.
Song Info
Genre
Acoustic • Acoustic Folk
Charts
Peak #189
Peak in subgenre #25
Author
Byerly/Nagel
Rights
Byerly/Nagel 2007
Uploaded
May 01, 2008
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MP3 2.4 MB • 160 kbps • 2:03
Story behind the song
Lauren wrote this for Chris after about three years of wonder and love and renewed delight in the world, and in things like daisies and oranges that she feels she hadn't properly appreciated before Chris came along. "Bring" in this song less means the physical bearing of gifts and more the bringing to awareness. Chris brings home carnations, but he brought the appreciation of sweet cream to Lauren, too. And to clarify, the "and you" at the end of each verse is not meant to denote a trailing off; the "you" is another precious thing brought along with the dawn, love, joy, and hope. A side joke is in the line, "You bring me my voodoo"--it refers foremost to supplying a positive influence on the world, but also to Chris's patient enabling of Lauren's superstitious quirks and to the fact that, about a day before writing this, Chris had fetched Lauren Voodoo rum from the kitchen. In the same verse, "Orion" is also a stand-in for a larger concept; being one of very few constellations she can consistently identify, Orion conveys a sense of comfort and consistency to the world. Out of season, it still appears, just in a different part of the sky and at about 3 am--Lauren thinks of this like finding a good or comfort that had been invisible or seemed lost.
Lyrics
You bring me carnations You bring me daisies, too And you bring me the dawn, and you. You bring me the twilit night And you bring me the dusk, too. You bring me love, and you. You bring me oranges, and you bring me sweet cream, too. And you bring me joy, and you. You bring me my voodoo, and you bring me Orion, too And you bring me hope, and you.
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