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The Easy Come and Go

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This next song's about how one day I'm happy. The next day I'm sad. Not for any particular reason. I think a lot of people are like that.

"fais do-do" is a phrase I picked up in high school French class. According to Wikipedia it is "a Cajun dance party, originating before World War II... the parties were named for the gentle command ('go to sleep') young mothers offered bawling infants. 'Do-do' itself is a shortening of the French verb dormir (to sleep), used primarily in speaking to small children." Anyway, even if no one knows what it means, it's a cute phrase, and it sounds really nice when sung and rhymed, I think.

So Friday there's a party. Saturday's so-so. You know, not severe depression, down but just sort of whatever.

I dunno if there's much else to the story. Just a snapshot into my brain, but it's like everyone else's brain. Sometimes you haven't called your family for a while and you feel bad. Sometimes I feel like a little boy inside even though I'm getting older.

Until just now typing up the lyrics, I didn't think of the connection between the use of the French phrase "fais do-do" and the "oh mon frere oh mon cheri" toward the end. I don't think that was intentional, but I wonder if somehow my brain made that happen. Just thought it was campy and fun.

I told Evan and the mastering engineer to leave the quick breath in at the very beginning of the song.

lyrics

This is who I am.
This is who I want to be—
a piece of mom, piece of dad,
put 'gether
trial and error.

This is all my time.
This is how I pass it by.
I figure out
stuff about
what it takes to make me me.

On a Friday day,
a fais do-do;
Saturday's so-so.
Cause it's easy come
easy come
easy come and go.

Sometimes I get so—um—
forgetful—
whatever I said before—I dunno—
you know what I mean.

I haven't called home in a while.
My solitude's sorta rude—
they're the ones who made me me.

Sometimes I get so indecisive;
I can't decide if I'm a grown man
or a little boy.

And I think I've got what's going round.
Easy up and down.

It's so easy.

credits

from Stephen Bluhm, released September 17, 2017
Recorded and produced by Evan Cory Levine at Hydrogen Peroxide, West Philly, PA. Evan did most of the synth and drum programming.
Mastered by Jeff Lipton at Peerless Mastering, Boston, MA
Assistant Mastering Engineer: Maria Rice

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