“Phone Calls From Home”
Tune/Composer: “Phone Calls From Home” by Brian Chartrand, copyright 2011, Flying Lessons Music ASCAP
Type: Home studio DEMO 6/16/11
Band/Instrumentation: Guitar, piano, vocals by Brian Chartrand
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Greetings from sunny Burlington, Vermont. Thanks to the wonders of modern technology and the magic of the information super highway, I come to you today from the home recording studio of The Sweet Remains. These idyllic surroundings are in complete contrast to the song that I have been recording these past couple days.
A couple weeks ago I witnessed a death in the subway in New York. I didn’t see it happen, but I walked onto the platform about 30 seconds after it did. A young woman was “severed” by an oncoming train. It was a traumatizing event and one that puts a lot of daily concerns and minor stresses into complete context. Its just not worth sweating over some things. I spent the rest of the afternoon deep in thought and began writing this song immediately. Later that day I heard that accidents like that happen frequently in the city, and I started to think of all the other things that happen in the city; walking the dog, fruit mongers on the corner, blood on the subway tracks…its just another night. And I really feel like, especially living in New York City, you have to remind yourself, “don’t break down.”
Lyrics:
Its just another night, its just another night in the city
Its just another night, its just another night tonight
There’s blood on the tracks tonight, all night
So hold your lady tight tonight, all night
Don’t break down
There’s people selling fruit on the corner tonight
Forbidden fruit on the corner all night
Gotta walk the dog around the block tonight
All the way to the park tonight and all night
Don’t break down
Phone calls from home (can you hear it, can you hear it)
They love you so (pretend you can’t hear it, so you..)
let it ring, let it ring out, let it ring
out of control
Don’t break down
Its just another night, its just another night in the city
Its just another night, its just another night all night
Its just another night, its just another night in the city
Its just another night, its just another night in the city
