Katie DeConto, vocals
Jesse James DeConto, vocals/bass
Laura Wooten, vocals/keyboard
Eric Johnson, electric guitar
Steven DeConto, additional percussion
Edd Kerr, guitars/keyboards
Tim Wooten, drums
lyrics
he was a boy, just a boy I once knew
when he was nearby I felt his vibe
ultrasonic, pyrogenic, alive
he's the rhythm bass, I syncopate
long before my eardrums vibrate
I am softly slipping, tongue-tripping, soul-stripping
through his silence, through his words, too late,
he asked me inside. did I decline?
I tripped into his window, slipped into his afterglow
was stripped out of his soul. Why?
I was a girl, too young for this,
just a girl afraid of dangerous bliss
memories slide into choices collide,
I subdivide the present from past
He was a boy, no, he was a man I once knew
credits
from A Beautiful World,
released July 29, 2014
from A Beautiful World (preview), released 05 August 2014
Copyright Jesse James DeConto, 2014 (ASCAP Clarendon Street Press)
with lyrics by H. Pfau
Recorded by Edd Kerr at Edd Kerr Productions
Mixed by Greg Abate at Neon Audio
Mastered by Adam Gonsalves at Telegraph Mastering
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