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Slow Season

by Pursesnatchers

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Eric Sanderson
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Eric Sanderson This is a truly beautiful song. I had no idea. I look forward to meeting up again some day soon. ❤️ Favorite track: Slow Season.
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This song is about being young and in love and getting your first place together. Before we had kids, it was just Annie and me, occasional roommates, and a couple of cats on a block that time had forgot, near the abandoned Greenpoint waterfront. We spent endless hours in our little postage stamp backyard, counting the seasons by the size of the pears on the tree that shaded our yard. I wrote this song in those days, but I never quite knew what to do with it. I think I demoed it as a new wavy synthpop thing? I dusted it off recently, when I was learning how to fingerpick. I like the way the steady forward motion of the guitar makes the song feel busy despite the slow chord changes. Urban but pastoral. Which reminds me a lot of those days.

I called the song “Backyard Cats,” until, like, today. So I dug up this picture that I took of my dear cat in that backyard on a goddamn flip phone circa 2005.

lyrics

Must have been a rainy spring
Because the pears are raining on everything
It’s hard to think back that far
When we’re putting pears into canning jars

This morning I sat outside all alone
Felt the first chill of winter seep deep in my bones
Then everything died at once
This garden’s a graveyard for the next five months

But the bloom’s not off our love
This winter I know who I’ll be keeping warm
We’ll build an igloo in New York

The cats are playing hard to get
Flinging themselves over the neighbor’s fence
We wonder what they’re hiding from
And how their tiny hearts keep pumping blood

Back in the vacuum our hearts are assuaged
By the rust in the dust and the patterns it makes
They won’t get far
The universe revolves around our backyard

And before this autumn falls
We’ve got some big decisions to ignore
We mean to sleep on everything

And the bloom’s not off our love
This winter I know who I’ll be keeping warm
We’ll build an igloo in New York

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released February 26, 2021
Drums are mainly sampled from Max Savage's playing on "Wide Awake" (Produced by Danger Mouse) with a little bit of Pete LaRoca playing with Sonny Rollins on "Night in Tunisia" (recorded by Rudy Van Gelder)

I definitely lifted the piano lead from Depeche Mode.

Cover star: Jumpsuit T. Kitten, 2003-2013, RIP

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