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Reunion

from David Poe by David Poe

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REUNION
By David Poe.
© 1997 Charming Martyr Music/BMI.

Won't you come down
She said
Come down
To my family reunion
Come down
You can meet my dad
You can see my home
They are the reason
My love gets strong
The bar I haunted
Before there was you

Won't you come down?
She said
Come down
To my holiday at home
This is the room
The chair he sat in
Now it's powder-burn blue
This is where it happened
And that's my sister
And her husband the bastard
She smiles at his mustache
It's his latest disaster
My sister used to get high
She used to make a sound
Now she's sweet and low
When he's around
But she's happy for me
Because I found you

You see how the time is frozen cold
Is this how we're gonna get if we get old?
I don't know

Won't you come home?
Come home
To my family reunion
Come home
It's just how we left it
Everything's in place
When you went away
A little shrine was made
And did you see my mother?
Did you see her face?
There are some things
Time won't erase
Ask her if there's something in the kitchen that needs tending to
But she'll say no
Unless she likes you
But you know there's nothing any one of us can do

Yeah, yeah, yeah

credits

from David Poe, released September 15, 1997
Sim Cain: drums
John Abbey: bass, banjo
David Poe: guitar, dobro
T-Bone Burnett: ukelin

Produced by T-Bone Burnett
Recorded by Susan Rogers
Recorded at The Magic Shop, New York and Sunset Sound, Los Angeles
Mixed by Sim Cain
Mix engineered by Greg Frey at RPM Studios, New York
Mastered by Joe Palmaccio at Sterling Sound, New York

From the album David Poe (Sony/550)
Released in the US 1997; in Europe, 1999 on Ulftone

"Some songs explain themselves or shouldn't be explained at all, and "Reunion" is one of them. But I should note that this was not inspired directly by my own family, but by someone else's.

"T-Bone Burnett produced the debut for Sony and was instrumental in choosing the songs for my first record, and I guess he liked this one as soon as he heard it in his room at the Ritz-Carlton in New York, where we did a sort of pre-production: basically, playing songs for each other and mulling over lyrics. T-Bone lives in Los Angeles but was in New York then helping to stage a production of Sam Shepard's "The Tooth Of Crime: Second Dance."

"Families inspire a lot of songs, for me at least: Childbearing and Doxology are two more of mine about the challenges modern families face.

"On this recording Sim Cain played a big marching band bass drum on two tracks, giving it a four-on-the-floor pulse. John Abbey played banjo -- a first. T-Bone Burnett played an instrument he had just acquired, a sort of dulcimer-meets autoharp called a ukelin. You can hear his contribution on the tiney whole notes at the bridge. I played the guitar solo, a pentatonic scale mastered as a young guitar student via the Rush song "Freewill."

- David Poe (from Performing Songwriter magazine, 02/12/00)

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