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My love, with her telescope

by Nick Vandenberg

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If it ain't one thing then it's two 03:17
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each of the broken dreams you left behind take all of your strength to not sound blue but wait long enough and you are bound to find something is waiting there for you cause if it ain't one thing there's bound to be another it's a chill in the wind or a ghost at the window or a hole in the sole of your shoe or the whole dang world misunderstood your laughter if it ain't one thing then it's two could probably wash it down with alcohol or practice until your aim gets true could stay up all night and still not count them all there's probably nothing you can do cause if it ain't one thing there's bound to be another it's a chill in the wind or a ghost at the window or a hole in the sole of your shoe or the whole dang world misunderstood your laughter if it ain't one thing then it's two
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My love, with her telescope 03:58
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my love spends her holidays in the backyard with a telescope that is pointed down at the dirt her neighbors and relatives all remind her that the proper way is to point it away from the earth but that's not a convention that impresses her cause she knows just how easily she could look up and see many things but they won't be what she wants the most and that's not a reality that pleases her and if my love cannot see me now then what use is a telescope that is pointed away from the earth and if the sky won't cooperate the telescope will continue in its improper position above where she's sitting now there's a cloud that without a doubt resembles a face she knows and my love who is often called by a name that when said aloud is much like a sound she just heard has a feeling that someone is watching her but my love with her telescope in the backyard that's behind her home has to know that what she wants the most is only an illusion, she is all alone and if my love cannot see me now then what use is a telescope that is pointed away from the earth and if the sky won't cooperate the telescope will continue in its improper position

about

In 2008 I wrote a song called "My love with her telescope" that was about a phenomenon we've only recently come to know as social distancing. I recorded this version of it in 2015 and have been waiting for some kind of world-wide timely-ness to present itself.

The B-side of today's release is called "If it ain't one thing then it's two." I put out a video for it last summer. I’d originally arranged these two songs to go together, and now they are together in all their upward key-changing
glory.

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released May 22, 2020

All instruments played, recorded, mixed, and mastered by me. I also designed the cover. Costume antlers designed and built by David Valentine

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