Song of the Week: How's the Weather Where You Are? - May 23, 2020
<p>Download Chris Thile’s Song of the Week for May 23, 2020: “How’s the Weather Where You Are?” (originally from our December 7, 2019 show) The band: Chris Thile, Aoife O’Donovan, Mike Elizondo, Chris Eldridge, Marcus Gilmore, Brittany Haas, Brett Williams.</p>
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<p><a href="https://www.livefromhere.org/shows/2019/12/07/pixies-black-pumas-crooked-still-aoife-odonovan-freestyle-love-supreme-tom-papa" class="default">Listen to our May 23 rebroadcast with Pixies, Black Pumas, Crooked Still, </a><em><a href="https://www.livefromhere.org/shows/2019/12/07/pixies-black-pumas-crooked-still-aoife-odonovan-freestyle-love-supreme-tom-papa" class="default">Freestyle Love Supreme</a></em><a href="https://www.livefromhere.org/shows/2019/12/07/pixies-black-pumas-crooked-still-aoife-odonovan-freestyle-love-supreme-tom-papa" class="default">, Aoife O’Donovan, and Tom Papa</a></p>
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<p>Lyrics:</p>
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<p>1.</p>
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<p>Morse: A nibble!</p>
<p>Lincoln: A bite!</p>
<p>A reason to be thankful—</p>
<p>M: —for another sleepless night</p>
<p>But how best to set the hook?</p>
<p>L: How best to reel him in?</p>
<p>M: Hmm...what to send?</p>
<p>L: Hmm...what to send?</p>
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<p>M + L: Not my name</p>
<p>L: He’ll know it</p>
<p>M: Rendering this another unclean slate</p>
<p>L: Another couple hours answering for these Divided States</p>
<p>M: And being the amplifier of this rift between Americans</p>
<p>Won’t help me make a friend</p>
<p>L: What to send?</p>
<p>M + L: Hmm...what to send?</p>
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<p>L: What are the chances of this meeting? I won’t let it get away</p>
<p>M: Who else will dance me through the dead of night unto the break of day?</p>
<p>L: If I believed in God I’d ask him</p>
<p>M: Father, tell me</p>
<p>M + L: what to say</p>
<p>To make a friend out of this stranger on the wire</p>
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<p>L: How’s the weather where you are?</p>
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<p>2.</p>
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<p>M: It’s hot as stock in Western Union</p>
<p>The air’s as thick as the brow of a grim patent judge</p>
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<p>L: Is that your field of law?</p>
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<p>M: Nice try. How’s the weather where YOU are?</p>
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<p>L: Hot as the barrel of a freshly fired cannon</p>
<p>Air as thick as the skull of McDowell at Bull Run</p>
<p>And the smoke rising up to the sky</p>
<p>Over sons that were loved as much as mine was</p>
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<p>M: I’m sorry for your loss.</p>
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<p>L: I’m grateful for your ear</p>
<p>I hope I haven’t scared you off</p>
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<p>M: Fellow stranger au contraire</p>
<p>Any night you feel like hopping</p>
<p>On this wire I’ll be here</p>
<p>Waiting to ask you how’s the weather where you are</p>
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<p>L + M: How’s the weather where you are?</p>
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<p>M: Cold as the sweat I woke up in an hour ago</p>
<p>L: Cold as each toe in each boot marching south through the snow</p>
<p>M: Exactly further yet from their hearths and our peace</p>
<p>Were I Abe I would bid each brave toe retreat*</p>
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<p>L: What of the war for freedom lost?</p>
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<p>M: I don’t believe it’s ours</p>
<p>I hope that doesn’t scare you off</p>
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<p>L: Fellow stranger au contraire</p>
<p>Any night you feel like hopping</p>
<p>On this wire I’ll be here</p>
<p>Waiting to ask you how’s the weather where you are</p>
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<p>‘Cause you can learn a lot about someone from asking how they feel about the weather where they are</p>
