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Over the River

from To Have and to Hold by Teething Veils

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    released July 23, 2022

    Kevin Buckholdt | drums
    Hester Doyle | cello, voice
    Craig Garrett | bass guitar
    Adrina Marie | violin, voice
    Greg Svitil | guitar, piano, voice

    Words and music by Greg Svitil
    Arr. Buckholdt, Doyle, Garrett, Marie, Svitil

    To Have and to Hold
    Teething Veils | 6
    Etxe Records & Productions | 29
    Recorded and mixed by Don Godwin at Tonal Park | Takoma Park, MD
    January 8-12, 2022
    Mastered by James Plotkin at Plotkinworks | Bethlehem, PA

    Artwork by Adam de Boer
    Sleeve design by Craig Garrett

    Special thanks to Erin Frisby and Kate Oczypok

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lyrics

Raised from the basement, slighted and struck
In a weather-worn house where no side is up
An asthmatic nurse, staving off the hearse
With meds in the bed and an inhaler in the purse
Spat on and muzzled and bruised down your face
Walking through hell like you own the place
Hiding out underground, sleepless and stealth
With no one to nurse the nurse back to health

Over the river, under the moon, I go over the river with you tonight

Ghosts pushing strollers past spirits on the corner
Down past the alley where there’s something to live for
Guard dogs in the backs of brown wagons without plates
Banged-up and battered and pressed up to the gates
Taking another forlorn shot to kill off all the pain
Where ulcers bleed out into droplets of rain
Crossing the tracks and biting your tongue
In life and in death, soldiering on

Over the river, under the moon, I go over the river with you tonight

Fighting the rocks and the pills and the wine
Off the road to recovery with darling Clementine
Containing the pain and ghosting away
The bells cracked apart on this Christmas Day
It’s Bloomsday on the beach, the waves swallow the air
It’s Flag Day in prison, it’s neither here nor there
With sunset-hued eyes suspended from the ceiling
Can we get another take? Once more, with feeling?

It’s four in the morning, you see your stilted breath
The twilight in your eyes unveils a glimmer of death
Parched out on pavement where you tore Babel down
It’s all over now, send in the clowns
In the old rugged house, there’s no place like home
There’s a glass mausoleum in the closet in your room
Sunk into sheetrock, you’ve spent all your luck
Over the rainbow, under the bus

Over the river, under the moon, I go over the river with you tonight

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from To Have and to Hold, released July 23, 2022

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"These songs—sepia-toned yet searching, eccentric yet melodically inclined—add up to something that feels like its own universe, sometimes wistful, sometimes the kind of menacing only achieved via a late-career Tom Waits death rattle." -Wash CP

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