Let's Look at Houses

from On The Water by Lisa Bastoni

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Written with Willi Carlisle, for the 2022 Freshgrass Festival in North Adams MA, as part of a songwriting retreat sponsored by The House of Songs.

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LET'S LOOK AT HOUSES
Lisa Bastoni & Willi Carlisle

Half the paint is peeling off the back porch stairs
The grass has grown so high it looks like no one’s living here
Somewhere in the weeds is a busted garden hose
Does it even matter if the garden never grows

I’d do anything for you except get a divorce
Let’s get it on all morning like the teenagers we were
Let’s hold each other’s hands as if we’ll never get bored
Let’s look at houses we know we can't afford

All I want to do is work, but it’s been raining all week
Why come to you for love when Old Milwaukee tastes so sweet
They say sinners never prosper, I guess we ain’t prospered yet
If we send our bills to heaven, will Jesus pay the rent

I’d do anything for you except get a divorce
Let’s get it on all morning like the teenagers we were
Let’s hold each other’s hands as if we’ll never get bored
Let’s look at houses we know we can't afford

If you preach the prosperity gospel
You’ll think you’re awesome
Until the market falls
Can you pass through the eye of a needle
Are you good to people
We’re not living wrong

It’s the third pass of a rag over old linoleum
It’s the dishes piled so high that the water cannot run
And it’s the way you look at me that I know you’re still the one
And when you lay down beside me when all the work is done

I’d do anything for you except get a divorce
Let’s get it on all morning like the teenagers we were
Let’s hold each other’s hands as if we’ll never get bored
Let’s look at houses we know we can't afford

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from On The Water, track released February 16, 2024
Lisa Bastoni - acoustic guitar, vocal
Sean Staples - bass, harmony vocal
Chris Anzalone - drums
Rich Hinman - pedal steel, electric guitar, acoustic guitar

Produced by Sean Staples
Engineered and mixed by Zachariah Hickman, Greedy Beast Studios, Watertown, MA
Mastered by Daniel Cardinal, Dimension Sound Studios, Jamaica Plain, MA

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Lisa Bastoni Northampton, Massachusetts

Lisa Bastoni is a 2019 and 2020 Boston Music Award nominee (Folk) , and winner of the 2019 Kerrville New Folk Contest. "Americana of the highest order...along the lines of Gretchen Peters or Patty Griffin." (Maverick-UK). She lives in Northampton, MA.

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