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Connect the Dots

from Odds & Ends by Our Twilight Pastime

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I loved Connect the Dots. Still do, as a matter of fact. I never would have thought it wouldn't make it on Drunken Sailors. My reasoning for keeping it off though was that I felt other songs just fit the vibe of the album more. To me, Connect the Dots is like the chosen one of the Terra Firma sound (although it was written after that album. It just sounds like it it has the same attitude as Terra Firma).

My girlfriend Katie really loves this song. The first time she asked me to play it, I hadn't played it in over a year (maybe even longer). So, I had to relearn it. I still question if I'm doing it right.

Oh, and Jim Robert is a friend of mine who happens to run Mixtake Studios out on Long Island. He wanted me to come down there to record some tracks, so I laid down this one and Start to Finish (as well as Acrobat, and 2 off Terra Firma). Just in case you were wondering why I ventured away from my bedroom.

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Springtime, and these warm nights,
well my mind's got me imagining things.
I'm picking up the pieces of the past
to form a collage: a you and me.

Driving around with our windows down
and our guards down even more.
We'd be talking our thoughts out loud
and let the warm air write those papers for us.

And by moonlight, our thesis is supplied.
And we'd warrant it all night
with support from those green lawns
that we'd choose to lie down on.

And now I'll never forget these nights
I've drawn up in my mind,
as vivid as a memory.
I'll put you into that starry sky:
the very same one I'm here alone examining.
And now if I squint, sometimes
I can connect the dots,
trace you into my lost and found.
Where I'll return the favor in kind:
I'll be the paper,
you just sketch your heart out.

Well, there's a lot of things
I should focus in on rather than this thought of you.
And now my eyesight is failing me,
'cause there's just nothing that straining can do.

But don't you know each day's like a lotto ticket:
you gotta scratch that silver lining
with all you got.
And you know what? More often than not
I'm finding out that I've already won.

So, with nothing to lose I think of you,
imagining that maybe I'll choose
a lucky number that you're hiding under.
But until then, I've got this pen in my hand

And now I'll never forget these nights
I've drawn up in my mind, as vivid
as a memory.
I'll put you into that starry sky:
the very same one I'm here alone examining.
And now if I squint just right
I can connect the dots,
trace you into my lost and found.
Where I'll return the favor in kind:
I'll be the paper,
you just sketch your heart out.

credits

from Odds & Ends, track released April 9, 2006
Written and Performed by Mike Goldense
Recorded by Jim Robert in Mixtake Studios on 10/29/2006

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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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