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memos from borscht belt

by Donna Vatnick

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Madeline this project reminds me of all the best parts of my mom - hard truths, deep love, and homemade borscht <3
Favorite track: kept.
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kept 03:02
I wanna be home but home is always moving I wanna be alone alone at my choosing is anything just left the way it has been kept without us noticing? is any star just there the way it's always been without disappearing I wanna feel you move feel you move with me, babe I wanna kiss and soothe you and leave you to your moods is anything just left the way it has been kept without us noticing? is love another name if everything would change without us grieving? I wanna be home but home always moving I wanna be alone alone at my choosing is anything just left the way it has been kept?
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just another morning does morning have a place for me? just the same gray sky rolling as far as the eye can see there's a wild, wild cold wind blowing in my ear telling me the things I try so very hard not to hear there is no shame in the roundabout way we come back to the same just a murder of crows circling around the fresh roadkill it's the same sensation holding me against my will there's a wild, wild cold wind blowing in my ear telling me the things I try so very hard not to hear there is not shame in the roundabout way we come back to the same just another moment a feeling I've been here before but remembering nothing more what is left unspoken is something that you've heard before remembering nothing more there's a wild, wild cold wind blowing in my ear telling me the things I try so very hard not to hear there is no shame in the roundabout way we come back to the same
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You say you love me You look in my heart And I choose to believe you But isn’t that just what they say To make you stay? Is love what I give you? And maybe its just the rain On the mountain terrain Bringing us close Or maybe I’ve had my fair dose Of lovers and ghosts So I hold you tighter You say you love me And you look in my heart And I choose to believe you You say you’ll stay Till the end of our days And I choose to receive you
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late morning 03:26
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new 01:57
our time has come and it always comes fast time to keep moving but we don't know where wherever it is, I'll be there this time last year we were a sliver of a vision so clear and we're still a sliver of something much bigger whatever that is, here we are it took me by surprise this December I cannot recognize all nostalgia is gone and from now on with you everything is new everything is new

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These were written and recorded as voice memos on my phone in November 2020 in Monticello, New York, formerly known as borscht belt.

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released December 5, 2020

Jason Kimball: audio mixing & constant support
Ethan Madore: cover photo & constant support & sharing space in the barn
Krista Quinn, Arman Mohammed, Julia Davidowitz: encouragement & musical sharing
Clay Williams: letting me borrow your nylon-string guitar & encouragement
Yonderbarn: letting me play your piano and live in your barn with Ethan

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Donna Vatnick Boston, Massachusetts

Rolling on the waves of change is always challenging; songwriting is a comforting companion for a wandering rower.

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