Field Notes for “the holy go-between”
Migrating birds.
Spawning salmon.
The thoughts you think.
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Words in your mouth.
Face in the mirror.
Faith in your heart.
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A hand on a wall.
A hand on a wall
in the opposite room.
The Ridiculous Music VIDEO
People always say I have my head in the clouds, so... Here's cheap and silly video proof.
Lyrics
There’s a hand on the wall
and a hand on the wall in another room.
In another room, there’s a hand on the wall
like the hand on the wall in here.
And the hands on the wall, they don’t touch at all.
They don’t touch at all because the wall
keeps them always separate but near.
And now it’s just you and me
and the Holy Go-Between.
Who told you to be
lonely and free?
Like a lullaby.
It’s a lullaby
sung by the tongue-tied stars up in the sky.
They go “na na na na na na na na na.”
It’s why. That’s why that’s why.
Do you see the way the birds fly south
and the sockeye swim upstream?
Can you be the words that haunt your mouth?
That’s good, that’s good, because now
we’re gonna tell you what they mean.
Now it’s just you and me
and the Holy Go-Between.
Who told you to be
lonely and free?
Like a lullaby.
It’s a lullaby
sung by the tongue-tied stars up in the sky.
They go “na na na na na na na na na.”
It’s why. That’s why that’s why.
Like a lullaby.
It’s just a lullaby.
It’s a lullaby.
Just a lullaby.
It goes “na na na na na na na na na.
Na na na na na na na na na.
Na na na na na na na na na na na na na na
na na na na na na na na na.”
Credits
Arthur Parker - Keyboards
Daniel Adlaf - Synth Bass
John Stewart - Drums and Percussion
Chris Robley - Vocals, guitars, and keyboards
Paul Brainard - Lap steel
Jeff Stuart Saltzman - Engineering at Secret Society and mixing at Mysterious Beard (both in Portland, OR).
Adam Gonsalves - Mastering at Telegraph (in Portland, OR).