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"Everyday Street" artwork, credits and lyrics

"Everyday Street" CD cover

"Everyday Street" back cover

"Everyday Street" left inside

"Everyday Street" right inside
CREDITS
Produced by Lucy Kaplansky
Arranged by Lucy Kaplansky and Duke Levine
Lucy: acoustic guitar, mandolin, harmonies
Duke: acoustic guitar, electric guitar, electric baritone guitar, National guitar, mandola, octave mandolin
Shawn Colvin: harmony on “Old Friends”
Richard Shindell: harmony on “Keeping Time”
Recorded, mixed and mastered by Chris Rival, Middleville Studio, North Reading MA, July and August 2018
Richard Shindell recorded by Greg Anderson, Ojisan, Beacon NY
Shawn Colvin recorded by Jacob Sciba at Arlyn Studios, Austin TX
Cover and inside photos by Lucy
Back cover photo by Beowulf Sheehan
CD package design by Lucy
Lucy uses Fishman Transducers
Duke uses D’Addario Strings and Mad Professor Effects
All songs by Lucy Kaplansky and Richard Litvin, Lucyricky Music, ASCAP, Administered by BMG EXCEPT:
Loch Lomond (traditional)
I Wish it Would Rain (Nanci Griffith, Irving Music) Hallelujah (Leonard Cohen, Sony/ATV Songs
Thunder Road (Bruce Springsteen, Universal Music Publishing Group)
THANK YOU: Duke Levine for all the years of beautiful playing, friendship and hilarity; Jean Railla; and Adam Bauer, Hailey Phelps, Kylee Phillips, and everyone at Madison House.
All my love to Rick, Molly and Janie Litvin, and thank you Rick for all your wisdom and for telling me not to over-think this.
LYRICS FOR ORIGINAL SONGS (ALL SONGS BY LUCY KAPLANSKY AND RICHARD LITVIN)
OLD FRIENDS
I’ve got a picture of you and me
From maybe 1982
You were 27
I was almost 22
We’re singing with somebody
Who isn't in the frame
Smiling at each other
Matching every phrase
Suspending notes that don't belong
Seconds and sixths whatever we want
And it feels like flying
Always landing somewhere new
Weaving a shared tapestry
That’s what you and I do
I was working the bar at open mike
The night you came to town
I’d heard about a girl
Better than anyone around
I got up and sang a tune
While Robbie watched the bar
Then the whole place got quiet
For your voice and your guitar
I remember us sitting on the floor
Singing every song we knew
Richard and Linda Thompson
Gram and Emmylou
We could tell each other everything
And we still do
Keeping our shared secrets
That’s what good friends do
And if I’d never met you
So much I never would have done
All those gigs you got me
All those great country songs
The record we made
Gave me this path I’m on
The way you showed all the guys
A girl could sing and write a song
And as it sometimes goes
We went separate ways
Who was right and who was wrong
Neither one of us can say
And it doesn't matter now
It was so long ago
Like water under the bridge
Life flows where it must go
So here we are in your hotel room
Singing Gram and Emmylou
20 years 20,000 roads
Have brought me back to you
Older a little wiser
Than back in 1982
Sharing a history
That’s what old friends do
SIXTH AVENUE
Was 10 years ago you were up all night
I was begging you to sleep
Sitting up in bed, wouldn’t shut your eyes
And you’ve still got that over me
Your first birthday, just your dad and me
Little face covered in ice cream
We made a wish for you, blew your candle out
Thought that baby you’d always be,
Thought that baby you’d always be
CHORUS
Oh was ten years ago
We’ll turn around and you’ll be grown
Oh one day you’ll be on your own
You’re gonna let us go
There’s a picture, red star on your shirt
You’re taking your first steps
I’m behind you, I’m reaching out
You’re smiling and not looking back
Many have said you’re an old soul
Wise beyond your time
You’ll walk alone for what is right
You choose kindness every time
CHORUS
We always tell you when you’re older
You say that won’t cut it anymore
Begging to get a slice with your friends
Alone with them, your own money to spend
So I let you cross Sixth Avenue
Soon the crowd is all I see
I keep on looking, I can’t let go
And I know you’re not looking for me Just how it’s supposed to be
11th birthday’s coming soon
Me and dad, your friends and you
When you blow your candles out
What you wish for it’s up to you
JANIE'S WALTZ
I gaze in wonder as you stir from sleep
I whisper your name and you come to me
I kiss your head and breathe you in
So glad as another day begins
We head out for a walk on our everyday street
We can get to the park across Waverly
But each flower each leaf is calling to you
Every day I discover the world with you
CHORUS
We’ve got nowhere to go and no one to meet
I’ll follow you wherever you lead
Oh on our everyday everyday street
Amazed by a tiny blowing leaf
You have to chase it and pull away from me
Snow is left from that storm last week
So many treasures buried underneath
A man walks by in a tall fur hat
You look up at him and you stop in your tracks
Bravely you approach, keeping close to me
You just have to find out just what he could be
CHORUS
I used to live stuck inside
Worrying about nothing, watching time go by
But when we’re walking you and me
I’m not worried about anything
Oh a child will grow and a child will leave
But years from now right here we’ll be
So glad for another day on our everyday Street
KEEPING TIME
I take walks in the mornings
When my kid’s gone to school
I see parents walking children
Like we used to do
In the mornings for years
We headed down that same street
I’d see you and your strawberry blond family
I’d see you scruffy and smiling
After school in the yard
Or the park on Horatio
Where the kids played till dark
Or Sunday morning Little league
On the chilly Hudson Pier
Just the movie star father
Freezing with us in the April air
In the bright morning sun
Or late afternoon glow
We kept time with the rhythms
Mothers and fathers know
A February morning
The news was on
I froze when I heard your name
Our neighborhood king was gone
You'd been chasing the dragon
Needle still in your skin
Ace of Spades all around you
Aces always win
After 23 years
The great actor of our day
After 10 years of fatherhood
It took you just the same
For the kill that lies in wait
Like the cruelest undertow
Is stronger than all a man builds and loves
And dreams and knows
And I’ll see you again
Up on that screen
But I’ll remember you best
On our neighborhood streets
In your baseball cap and jeans
Kids and stroller in tow
Amid the flowers of spring
Or January snow
Keeping time with the rhythms
Mothers and fathers know
Four winters come and gone
Spring is here again
I saw your kids the other day
An old woman with them
And a chill went through me
When I looked into her face
She was the picture of you
Just wizened with age
And all at once I knew
Something sorrowful and true
She was walking with them
Still keeping time with you Cause the rhythms just go on
And will go on without you
THIRTY YEARS BEGIN NOW
30 years have passed and we’re here again
In your childhood yard, at childhood’s end
We the branches we the leaves
We that remain of our families
It was over here we planted a tree
A promise of our life to be
So we stood beneath an antique quilt
Our multithreaded canopy
EE Cummings words were read
I thank you god for this amazing day
for the leaping greenly spirits of trees
Inside behind my eyes I prayed
CHORUS
Here we stand again
On this changing ground
As 30 years end
30 years begin now
Then I sang with the band Embraceable You
And all the longing of Someday Soon
And all I’d longed for was coming true
Down the toughest road I would follow you
The last song was Ashokan Farewell
I took off my shoes and danced with you
To that sad bluegrass melody
Old things end with something new
We drove again our open road
And nothing was the same
On my hand was your gold ring
In my heart a promise I’d never break
CHORUS
Oh this is living ground
And only this moment matters now
And what I feel for you today
And the spirit of trees
And the promise I made
CHORUS
DAY IS DONE
Good night my darling
And goodbye to the day
Good night my darling
And goodbye to the day
I’m leaving in the morning
Be gone when you awake
it hurts you and it hurts me too
I wish that I could stay
You want time to keep moving on
Can’t wait to be all grown
You want time to keep moving on
I wish it would all slow down
Funny how I used to think
The day would never end
Now I watch the years go by
And I can’t get them back again
CHORUS
Day is done
Gone the sun
But not for long not for long
Day is done gone the sun
But not for long my darling one
I went searching
For that place where I belong
I went searching
Wound up back where I started from
Should have listened to that voice
That was in me all along
Sometimes what you’re looking for
It isn’t really gone
Oh my darling now it’s time to say goodbye
Oh my darling, sometimes I can’t remember why
There’s just this part of me I lost
But I got it back again
I hold it close as I hold you both,
I hope you understand
CHORUS
THE TIDE
There are demons in the water
There are devils in the sea
There are dangers in the current
When the tide goes out of me
I could drink you under the table
I could drink you out of town
I could drink you off the planet
Drink myself into the ground
CHORUS
And I have nothing for you tonight
I have nothing for you tonight
I have nothing for you tonight
I have nothing for you
I was made to be a good girl
Carried buckets made of stone
Full of envy, full of sorrow
On a tightrope all alone
And all the time I was on fire
I burned with every stride
And now I see this anger
Is the horse I choose to ride
Now you say you want something nice from me
Well if you find it, take it, it's on me
In the meantime don't bother me
The tide has washed the nice from me
CHORUS
In nothing are the voices
And the pictures of my life
In the nothing of the sky
Is an ocean made of light
In the nothing of my silence
Is a sad-eyed little girl
On a tightrope she is singing
As she passes through this world
CHORUS