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Meantime/ Between Time

by Autumn Hollow

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It’s about the necessity to exist in the moment. So much of our existence is moving from one task to the next task and we are always focused on what’s to come that we miss what is happening. Planning is an essential part of our lives but we forget to exist in the moment. The writing of this song was like fishing. At first, I was playing the chords, sitting on the couch (dropping the line in the water) sort of staring off into space. Then at some point, the melody came to me and I started softly humming (recasting the line in the water) and then I noticed something. All of sudden I had company, (a bite!) someone had appeared and was still playing in their own world but they were also listening. Usually writing songs is a solitary experience filled with me pacing back forth playing the guitar, humming/ talking to myself/ mumbling to myself/ having full-blown conversations with myself/ lyrics and repetition/ repetition/ repetition. But this was different. I was going to try to write this song in the presence of another person. Someone who at the same time was listening and not listening. It was as if their subconscious was going to be my editor. The lyrics focus on two different aspects. One is a reminder to stay in the moment and two is a conversation I was having with the person with me while I was writing. Did I catch the fish? Did I teach the man to fish? Did he teach me to fish? Who cares.

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Meantime/ Between Time

I just hope, hope can carry me,
Past the hardships and misery
Sometimes you end up higher than you planned
But you better watch out where you land

I don’t carry worry in my chest,
Don’t go to sleep with anger on my breath
I don’t think the world is a bad place to live
I just get nervous for my kids

In the meantime
and between time
Let’s listen to the flowers,
Take shelter in the winter
Come over when the lighting strikes
If burdens still remain

I stay on the narrow most the time
But every now and then I cross the line
I try to keep it inside and clean up my place
But she can see it all over my face

I can’t imagine what’s it’s like to be you
Always waiting for the movie through the preview
The wind can make you buckle
Your skin gets so hot
I wish for once I knew just how you thought

In the meantime
and between time
You can be the leader
So we can see it clearer
And empathy will flourish
If the burdens still remain

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released April 28, 2022

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Autumn Hollow Boston, Massachusetts

Autumn Hollow has played over one hundred shows in some of the best regional venues including The Paradise Rock Club, The Iron Horse Music Hall, the Higher Ground, The Regent Theater, and Club Passim. The band is a mish-mash of the Grateful Dead and The Band, more Wilco than Son Volt, but is a sound all their own. The Autumn Holler gents make you want to flick a Bic, raise a beer and sing along. ... more

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