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Send Me Word When You Get Back

by Jeremy Hatch

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1.
Descent 03:55
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Send Me Word When You Get Back 05:47
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you saw yourself on a beach alone on some distant shore searching for the time you’d lost in the shadow of your ambition it was getting late you left your coffee in my kitchen the unknown shore had called to you and you had a new direction to know the world that you’d only seen in the darkness of your deepest deepest dream it was a dream you liked to keep dreaming when you couldn’t sleep oh where did you go to it’s been so long send me word when you get back til then so long all the riches of the city had no claims on your heart you had lost such riches before you knew what it meant to have to start over again from nothing when you lose it all you gain the rest of your freedom back and you were fighting to keep the road open to the wilderness of your wildest dreams where you’d live on honey and the mountain streams a solemn joke, a cherished thing like words to a song you couldn’t sing oh where did you go to it’s been so long aend me word when you get back til then so long just a word before you left though I didn’t know just what I would say we talked of other things that night I know you didn’t mean to stay so long at my kitchen table talking deep into the night pouring wine from the bottle to keep the silence light cause pouring wine for me and you was the only thing we knew to do whenever we had lost the thread of things that should never be said oh where did you go to it’s been so long send me word when you get back til then so long
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Open Waters 03:04
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The Great City 06:50
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well an earthquake struck the shores of a country across the sea and you woke me up before dawn cause you’d already seen it in your dreams well the earth had shifted ever so slightly just enough to bring a whole city down and at the distance you felt it you thought it was a sign of something more profound than we know how to know well what would you do if the great city should go up in flames what would you do if the great city were lost to the floods and the winds and the rain what would you do would you leave me then too well the world was shaken that morning by forces we’d never understand but all the words in your face that day explained it all the stones that tumbled to the streets it was all so silent in your dreams the face you showed me I never expected to see it would never be the same from that day well what would you do if the great city should go up in flames what would you do if the great city were lost to the floods and the winds and the rain what would you do would you leave me then too
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A Mountain Lake 02:37
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The Old Station 03:55
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I’m at the old station where I bring all my questions like so many bags to be lost somewhere down those rusted rails that’s where I lost you to some other time and place those rails could carry me away they could carry me far, far away past the station where I left you cause everything looks different under different skies where the stars are changed and all the whats are whys questions here are answers there that’s what I believe and I hope somewhere you’ve found what you need
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The Gateless Gate 04:09
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You Never Really Knew 03:41
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all the things I never said because the only thing to say gave me nothing I could give to you but you knew that when you spent that night with me there up on the roof of my new place that night when all I did was look at your face your hair in a braid like a girl it's gone now, that rooftop where we smoked and mocked the moon for being a dead thing that could never know what it felt like to have this thing we had call it what you will under the sky your hand in mine that night when all I did was look at your face you were distracted you didn't see my eyes in some other country some other land you're roaming and I think of you I know you think of me from time to time well I hope you do I never said what I wanted to say that night was no gift to give you that night when all I did was look at your face and how I felt you never really knew
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The Weather is Not the Sky 03:51
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As You Lie Sleeping 08:08
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the wine's run out and the air is blowing cold through the window in the dark of my room you've draped your arm like a shield against heartbreak across your breast so tender and new the cars rush past in the street outside my window headed for places unknown but I know the only place where I'll never miss you is a place you can only go alone so tell me again tell me as you lie sleeping tell me which road is right tell me your dreams and the secrets you've been keeping tell me when I join you tonight under the blanket you keep yourself protected from the waking world and its every cruel demand what you lost is no more than you expected what you kept is more than you understand yet in the silence of the room wrapped around you in the silence of the moon's white light in the silence of your breathing so even you're safe from every danger tonight so tell me again tell me as you lie sleeping tell me which road is right tell me your dreams and the secrets you've been keeping tell me when I join you tonight so sleep my lovely sleep until the sunrise sleep until you find another way back through the mirror of your dream’s still surface and back into the light of the day for now I'll lay my head down beside you no I never thought that you would be mine I'll try to find where you've gone in the darkness hold your hand in a place outside time so tell me again tell me as you lie sleeping tell me which road is right tell me your dreams and the secrets you've been keeping tell me when I join you tonight

about

Send Me Word When You Get Back is a concept album built around ten dreams: each instrumental and song on the album were inspired by particular dreams that Jeremy awoke from and recorded over the years and turned into prose poems and lyrics. A classically-trained pianist, guitarist and composer who later devoted himself to folk and rock music, Jeremy has combined on this album the rigorous compositional approach of classical music with the direct appeal of folk songs and the hard-driving intensity of rock.

Jeremy wrote and recorded the album after a successful Kickstarter campaign in 2016, which funded the equipment, software and time necessary to complete the project. He performed all the parts himself, working mostly out of his own home studio in Oakland and a friend’s studio in Martinez. His Kickstarter backers have given the album an enthusiastic reception: many have compared it to being taken on a journey, or to listening to a soundtrack for an imaginary movie.

On releasing his first album at the age of 40, Jeremy says: "waiting to do this until now has given me the opportunity to incorporate many more influences than I could have done 15 years ago. At 25, the best I could have managed was to record some classical guitar music. I've spent the past 15 years maturing my craft, steeping myself in various folk music traditions, performing live, and along the way, learning secondary instruments and developing my recording skills. Also, it happens that all my life, I have been equally devoted to language, and for many years I focused heavily on literary writing. All these years of writing fiction and poetry has led to a strong emphasis on story and poetic language in my songs."

The album’s music is dark and rich, and the songs deal with themes of love, loss, and longing. While they don’t tell a continuous story, the listener is drawn from one track to the next by seamless transitions and changes of mood. A dynamic instrumental introduction featuring acoustic guitar, piano, and a soaring guitar lead draws us into the title track and first single, which seems to be the story of a lover who went to pursue a life in the wilderness and was never heard from again, as told by the one left behind.

Later tracks have a similar emotional tone. In one, the singer is standing in a train station, wondering which direction their lover has taken, having brought “all my questions / like so many bags to be lost.” In the second single, “You Never Really Knew,” the singer remembers details of being with a certain lover and regrets his failure of courage: “I never said what I wanted to say / that night was no gift to give you / that night when all I did was look at your face / and how I felt, you never really knew.”

Between each of these songs are instrumental pieces which sometimes sound like large symphonic groups and at other times are simply one or two guitars and a piano.

The final track gives the album a mysterious, yet somehow more hopeful note to close out with. “As You Lie Sleeping” opens with a quiet fingerpicked guitar part over which the singer describes laying together in a room with his lover, who is asleep. The song is filled with tenderness, and it seems to be about his desire to join her in her dreams as well as physically: “So tell me again / tell me as you lie sleeping / tell me which road is right / tell me your dreams and the secrets you’ve been keeping / tell me when I join you tonight.” To quote Dylan, I’ll let you be in my dream if you’ll let me be in yours.

credits

released February 23, 2018

All music & lyrics written, performed and recorded by Jeremy Hatch in 2016. Accompanying text “the Dreams” and all artwork and design also by Jeremy Hatch, 2016, unless otherwise noted.

Album cover image by Jessica LeBeau, 2016.

Recorded at Li’l Goat Studio in Martinez with assistance by Kyle Reed, and at the Theatre Lofts in San Francisco with assistance by Don Tipton. The rest was completed in my living room in Oakland. Feedback on the mix and mixing loudspeakers provided by Dayv Cabrito, Kyle Reed and Don Tipton.

This album was created as a direct result of the support of my Kickstarter backers. Thank you; without your financial help, this work would not have been possible. Special thanks to my top Kickstarter backers Loretta Johnson, Don Tipton, Kyle Reed, Mario Lesnjak, & Brittany Christensen.

And as always I cannot adequately express my gratitude to my love Jessica LeBeau, without whom I cannot imagine my life.

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Jeremy Hatch is a composer based in Portland, Oregon. He plays piano and guitar.

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