When you're in love, there's a tug-and-pull: when you meet, there's chemistry and magic and beautiful insanity. And you want to move so fast. And you do. And then there is the realization: just to keep what you have requires a larger version of yourself. You struggle and rebel. And then you do the work.
After I wrote the original skeleton of this song, I asked Chuck to play some stuff from his classical piano days. He felt his way through the song a few times, and was brilliant. I originally played the bells, but then thought the rhythm sounded too hurky-jerky, even for a song about tug-and-pull. So Matthew stepped in and killed that shizzzz.
lyrics
Closer 2010 Stephanie Morgan (BMI)
I - you - I go closer
You come closer
We grow closer
Steam trains and other mad things float around the spaces in my bones, yeah, in my bones (just like they own the place), and it's the little things that make them hum and make them blow their horns - it's the little things, like the way you sing, or the way you shut me down - 'cause I like it when you like to rev them up by calling me out on the little things - it's a mean thing that I swallow like water (oh, I know, I said I wouldn't, but, oh well - say it again - I'm a-blow - I'm a big train).
Everybody wants to start something
But no one's up for finishing
Everyone wants to eat some bread
But no one's up for baking it
Everyone's tryin' to grow, grow
Everyone's tryin' to grow, grow
Everyone's tryin' to grow, grow
But everyone's got to go slow
With a baby
With a baby
With a mountain
With a mountain
I - you - I go closer
You come closer
We grow closer
credits
from stephaniesĭd bonus / alt tracks,
track released December 6, 2010
Lyrics and music, vox, guitar, bass synth: Stephanie Morgan
Piano: Chuck Lichtenberger
Bells: Matthew Richmond
Stephanie Morgan (aka Pink Mercury, stephaniesĭd, Chloe Taylor)Asheville, North Carolina
Stephaniesĭd disbanded in 2016. Singer Stephanie Morgan now performs under the name Pink Mercury. Based in both Los Angeles, CA and Asheville, NC. www.pinkmercury.com
dep is a gem who makes beautiful, cinematic music. i got the opportunity to collaborate with him on a couple of songs, which appear on this album. Stephanie Morgan (aka Pink Mercury, stephaniesĭd, Chloe Taylor)
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