This comes from a poem I wrote when I was 15 called "Bath, Maine". It was one of the first things I recorded when I started making music again in my mid-teens after a long hiatus, and it was one of the recordings that laid the groundwork for a lot of what I've done since. It never fit on any album, so I decided to release it on its own.
lyrics
One night in Pennslyvania,
I dreamed that you had run away from home.
I saw you at an Icelandic restaurant.
We ate something,
but no one could understand what we were saying.
I was at a party for something relating to the Japanese,
with desserts designed by a cubist.
I woke up,
and pretended I was at a French restaurant
(someone said I would never eat at a French restaurant);
after that,
no one talked about anything relevant.
In Bath, Maine,
I dreamed you came back from a summer vacation.
I tried to talk with you,
but you were the only one who could hear me.
You then explained that you had drank a lot of water over the summer.
Someone was chopping fruit;
the other was crying.
credits
released February 25, 2016
Jesse wrote the lyrics and music, played the guitars, did the vocals, engineered and produced the recording, took the photo, and designed the album cover, in the USA, in the 2000s.
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