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Clean Slate

from Odds & Ends by Our Twilight Pastime

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Clean Slate is another song that ended up getting cut from Drunken Sailors. And...yes, you guessed it. It's another song I still like.

Although I tend to forget about this song for some reason. I always forget it when I'm writing a set, and I'm pretty sure I forgot to give it to anyone's who's asked for any unreleased songs over the years (sorry!).

A little bit of trivia: I tend to mumble random words that seem to phonetically fit the song in order to create a melody when I'm writing music. Sometimes, these words form a coherent sentence that seem to fit the song quite well (See Quickly to a Smile on Terra Firma for another example). For Clean Slate, I remember singing "Don't you ever go, don't you ever go. I've got you waiting." And the song flowed from that one line.

lyrics

My mind's drawing a blank:
a clean slate of creativity
with nothing for it to chase.

But it's got a picture of you.
One that you sketched up real quick
after I asked you to.

You said, "don't laugh,
I really can't draw."
But I like the way the unsure lines
make your smile seem so full.

And lately, that's all I can see.
And when I try to write
that's all that comes outta me.
And you call it imperfect,
but it looks right
to someone as broken as me.

We'll never know what we could become.
But it doesn't matter in the end:
you can't miss what never was.

And anyway, I've too many dreams on the shelf.
Some half-finished, or never started.
Like this one that you starred in.

And in it,
you said "just shut up and listen.
The world's a beautiful song,
and if you're not quiet,
you may miss it.
And the trees are full of poetry:
beautiful lines are in every leaf."

And you told them what you're telling me.

You said,
"Don't you ever go, don't you ever go.
I've got you waiting.
Don't you ever go, don't you ever go.
I've got you waiting
Don't you ever go, don't you ever go.
I've got you waiting with me in this life.
And that's all I ever need."

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from Odds & Ends, track released June 17, 2007
Written and Performed by Mike Goldense

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Hi, I'm Michael Goldense. I've used the name Our Twilight Pastime since 2004 for the music I write & record at home. Check out my latest EP, Reimagined Static. I also released an album "The Light of What We Are" under my own name in 2017.

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