Waxwing

from On The Water by Lisa Bastoni

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Written for Peter Mulvey's weekly songwriting group, October 2021. The prompt was "range." I was late with my song, a bird had died on my doorstep, and I wrote the fastest, simplest song I could think of in order to meet the deadline. In the studio, it evolved into one of my favorites in this whole batch. The organ! The handclaps! Enjoy!

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WAXWING
Lisa Bastoni

A cedar waxwing landed on my doorstep
Last night, last night
Picked her up with a heavy shovel
So light, so light

Muddy gray with a flash of yellow in the
Blue sky, blue sky
Lying in the ivy but her soul flies
So high, so high

You can stand in the doorway and listen for her call
You can wait there all day but you won’t hear
Anything at all

Too many berries and her heart stopped
Drunk on fruit, drunk on fruit
I can’t sleep, I’m waiting on the sunrise
Thinking of you, thinking of you

Oooh, oooh

You can stand in the doorway and listen for her call
You can wait there all day but you won’t hear
Anything at all

I can’t sleep, I’m waiting on the sunrise
I can’t sleep, I’m waiting on the sunrise

Oooh, oooh
Oooh, oooh

credits

from On The Water, track released March 1, 2024
Lisa Bastoni - acoustic guitar, vocal, handclaps
Sean Staples - bass, harmony vocal, high strung guitar, handclaps
Chris Anzalone - drums
Rich Hinman - electric guitar
James Rohr - Rhodes, clavinet, organ, handclaps
Zachariah Hickman - tambourine, heart stop snare

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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