Days Like This
from This Burning Ship of Fools by Matthew Santos
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Days Like This
I would have liked to do more solo acoustic songs for this album, as I feel the simplicity and intimacy of it is so very valuable; like the heart of the song is being worn on the sleeve. This tune really honors my roots as a singer/songwriter, so in a sense we wanted to bring it home for the last song. It's about the happiest homeless man I have ever seen.
We wanted to be completely organic with production of this track, so it was recorded live. Manny Sanchez used a special microphone that was a stereo mic set up within a detailed mold of a human head. I guess it was meant to pick up sound as our own ears do.
I would have liked to do more solo acoustic songs for this album, as I feel the simplicity and intimacy of it is so very valuable; like the heart of the song is being worn on the sleeve. This tune really honors my roots as a singer/songwriter, so in a sense we wanted to bring it home for the last song. It's about the happiest homeless man I have ever seen.
We wanted to be completely organic with production of this track, so it was recorded live. Manny Sanchez used a special microphone that was a stereo mic set up within a detailed mold of a human head. I guess it was meant to pick up sound as our own ears do.
lyrics
“Days Like This” by Matthew Santos
You know you gotta see it/gotta see it to believe it.
There goes a man with no agenda to define him.
You know he’s got nothing/but he keeps on smiling,
loud as a flower.
You know you gotta see it/you gotta see it to believe it.
There goes a man with nothing on his mind.
Witness the clarity/the transparent rarity,
Free as a sparrow.
He said it’s days like this that hold me in bliss,
With the kiss of the sun on my brow.
And here I am in the here and now,
Where I’ll give you the shirt off my back.
Said I’ll give you the shirt right off my back.
You know you gotta see it/gotta see it to believe it,
There goes a man with nothing heavy on his heart.
and he don’t want nothing/just the air that he’s breathing,
light as a feather.
You know they wanna steal it/wanna steal his secret,
Cause they don’t believe they already got it there in their hearts.
But if they can’t steal it/gonna try and kill it, why?
He said it’s days like this that hold me in bliss,
With the kiss of the snow on my brow.
And here I am in the here and now,
Where I’ll give you the shirt off my back.
Said I’ll give you the shirt right off my back.
You know you gotta see it/gotta see it to believe it.
There goes a man with no agenda to define him.
You know he’s got nothing/but he keeps on smiling,
loud as a flower.
You know you gotta see it/you gotta see it to believe it.
There goes a man with nothing on his mind.
Witness the clarity/the transparent rarity,
Free as a sparrow.
He said it’s days like this that hold me in bliss,
With the kiss of the sun on my brow.
And here I am in the here and now,
Where I’ll give you the shirt off my back.
Said I’ll give you the shirt right off my back.
You know you gotta see it/gotta see it to believe it,
There goes a man with nothing heavy on his heart.
and he don’t want nothing/just the air that he’s breathing,
light as a feather.
You know they wanna steal it/wanna steal his secret,
Cause they don’t believe they already got it there in their hearts.
But if they can’t steal it/gonna try and kill it, why?
He said it’s days like this that hold me in bliss,
With the kiss of the snow on my brow.
And here I am in the here and now,
Where I’ll give you the shirt off my back.
Said I’ll give you the shirt right off my back.
credits
from This Burning Ship of Fools,
released May 28, 2010
vocals, guitar: Matthew Santos
recorded live at I.V. Lab Studios
recorded by Manny Sanchez
vocals, guitar: Matthew Santos
recorded live at I.V. Lab Studios
recorded by Manny Sanchez
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May 2010 -
Sep 2006
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