Music

Vanishing Jane

drumkit - gerald dowd
bass guitar - mike fredrickson
electric guitar - grant tye
acoustic guitar and vocal - robbie fulks
keyboard - chris neville
backing vocals - amy warren, k.c. mcdonough,
mike fredrickson, ingrid graudins

A high school friend died suddenly in 2007 and I started this song in her memory. Then "Joan," her name, turned to "Jane," and gradually things got farther away from the spark. As it stands, it's about the fallout from a hookup, and has some whimsical word-association lyrics; but to the subtler extent that it's still about the hole chopped in your landscape by human disappearance, it still concerns Joan, and I think of her when I'm singing it.

Lyrics

You drive -- you drive too slow
I’ll get you home
I’ll get stuck in your changer
Until your lips move to my song

Cheap words -- so very cheap
I’ll take the leap
I’ll pledge my undying love
Whoever the hell you are

CHORUS:
The streetlights as the day comes
The heat before the rain
The one sure stroke to make your mind unravel
Vanishing Jane
Vanishing Jane

Scene 2, later that night
All is not right
There’s a window wide open
And cloven tracks across the lawn
My sense – sense of foreplay
Your DNA
A sure-to-miss combination
Now even your second name is gone

CHORUS

If I -- if I saw you
Saw you in two
Saw you into your golden years
Would this feel half as strong?

CHORUS

Guitar Chords/Tab

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