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At My Table (featuring Troy "Trombone Shorty" Andrews)

from This Burning Ship of Fools by Matthew Santos

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At My Table
This track was one of the first recorded for this album. It was also one of the first to be cut from the album for the sole reason that it apparently sounded too much like a certain pop group, which we wish not to be compared to. This song sat in the garbage for most of a year until at the very last minute we decided it would add a certain spark to the body of work. It’s really just a fun tune. The song is about a few things, but mostly about facing the shadows in us all with a loving light, and watching them simply dissolve.

Featuring Troy “Trombone Shorty” Andrews, one of the greatest horn players of this generation if not the best, his solos during the bridge are of another era. The song has a sort of disco-old time-saloon vibe to it. We recorded me banging on tables full of plates and silverware with my shoes on my hands to add an interesting percussive element.

lyrics

“At My Table” by Matthew Santos

Come sit at my table we’ll enable the disabling
Of labels laid before like the stones in the doorway,


Metaphorically I’m speaking free of how we see reality,
Conceptually, or actually, let’s stick it to the facts now.

Dive deep into the darkness
Light sheds shadows!

Intuitively chewing spewing news here for the viewing now
What horrors of the hour, headlining sours.

Turning off the T.V radio has got to go though even though
We need to know all the numbers, death tolls.

Dive deep into the darkness
Light sheds shadows!

Come sit at my table we’ll enable the disabling
Of labels laid before like the stones in the doorway,


Metaphorically I’m speaking free of how we see reality,
Conceptually, or actually, let’s stick it to the facts now.

Dive deep into the darkness
Light sheds shadows!

credits

from This Burning Ship of Fools, released May 28, 2010
Featuring Troy "Trombone Shorty" Andrews

vocals, guitar, tables: Matthew Santos
drums: Robert Tucker
bass: Graham Burris
pianos, synths: Matt Nelson
horns: Trombone Shorty

recorded at The I.V. Lab, The Attic, and Rax Trax
recorded by Manny Sanchez, Greg Majors, and Kendall Stevens
stevens mixed by Manny Sanchez and Greg Majors

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