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Sometimes

from Harmonium by Patrick Ames

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Track 2: Sometimes

How do you write a forceful song about climate change when the world hasn’t done a thing about climate abatement for the past 60 years? What to do? I went back to the cadence and style of the social injustice folk song, Joan Baez, Peter Paul and Mary, dozens more, and stripped it down to the voice/lyrics and a C-F-G melody progression. Again, there’s the refrain, this time of the song title, and the whole thing reminds me of a poetry reading. Jon keeps it that way, too, in his bass lines and in the mix of the accompaniment by Chana. The voice you hear me singing is my 7am Sunday morning voice, without coffee, dragging my ass out to the studio space in the cold, misty December weather just to catch that recording on the first take.

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- Sometimes-
© 2022 by Patrick Ames.

Sometimes I wish the world / would re- ally really try
Sometimes I stay up all night / and worry till I cry
Sometimes I think about /the end of modern life
Somehow I choke it down / but it burns just like the fires
Sometimes I wish the world would really really try

Sometimes I wish the world would listen to its youth
Just take a look outside and admit there’s no excuse
Sometimes I wonder how this world even exists
Somehow we lasted this long despite our laziness
Sometimes I wish the world would be- lieve in their youth

Once we lose wonder We lose all hope
Once we blame others We fail to cope

Sometimes I wish the world would really really try
Put away the differences that come with being alive
Sometimes I can’t explain the writing on the wall
Except to say it’s coming fast even though we seem to crawl
Sometimes I wish the world would really really try
Sometimes I wish the world would really really try

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from Harmonium, released June 1, 2022
Patrick Ames: Guitars and vocals
Jon Ireson: Bass, Guitars, Keyboards, Programming, Producer
Chana Matthews: Backup vocals

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