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A tree will overgrow a clothesline pulley. It takes decades, but the tree will eventually envelop the white plastic bit by bit, healing itself and enclosing the wheel within its rough tissue. Bark on the outside, reel on the inside. You'd never know there had been a laundry line deep in these woods. Only the tree knows.
A song will grow around our words. Sometimes it takes a while, but the song always comes to hold them, to keep them from rattling around inside and wrecking things. You'd never know there was a love deep in these bones. Only the song knows.

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Some days I wake up in the morning
With a hole in my heart
There’s a hole in the place where my heart should be

And I think that I could be happy
I could plug it up and go on.
But on days when I wake with a hole in my chest,
it’s to hell with the future, the present, the rest
is the part that will matter until I get dressed
and it’s all I can do not to cry for the longing.

Those days, I wake up in the morning
With your face on my mind
There’s your face in the place where my mind should be

You are standing out in the pasture
In the light of shimmering stars.
On the days when I wake with your smile in my eyes
We are standing again under widening skies
Where I’m slowly removing my careful disguise
And I swear by my life, I could stand there forever

O bright city. O bright star.
I cry for water to heal my heart
Down, bright bucket, down deep well
Arms hold steady, can we pull it up full?

There’s a slick of oil on the ocean
There’s a war ablaze overseas
There’s a tide that’s tugging my body down

And there we are in the pasture
Where the words are leaving my lips
Even if it’s worth saying it can’t be unsaid
Still there’s no point in holding it till we are dead
Even if I might find myself pinned to the bed
Every morning from now till the end of forever.

O bright city. O bright star.
I cry for water to heal my heart
Down, bright bucket, down deep well
Arms hold steady, can we pull it up full?

credits

from Jean Rohe & The End of the World Show, released November 27, 2014
Jean Rohe – mandolin, guitar, lead vocals
Ilusha Tsinadze – acoustic and electric guitars, dobro
Christopher Tordini – acoustic and electric bass
Liam Robinson – accordion, keyboards
Skye Steele – violin
Rogério Boccato – percussion
Richie Barshay – percussion
James Shipp – vibraphone and percussion
And everyone sings.

Ljova Zhurbin – viola on 3, 5, 7, 9, and 11
Dave Eggar – cello on 3, 5, 7, 9, and 11

Tony Hdez – radio announcer on 4

All songs by Jean Rohe
Produced by Jean Rohe & Liam Robinson

String arrangements on “Fisherman”, “Pacific Street”, “Water”, and “O Bright Star” by Liam Robinson.

“Who Shall...” incorporates part of a Russian children's song in translation, “May There Always Be Sunshine (Пусть всегда будет солнце)”.
Field recording in “Umbrella” from Uskudar, Istanbul, Turkey, 2011.

Recorded by Chris Bittner at Applehead Studios in Saugerties, NY
Additional recording by Oliver Straus at Mission Sound, Brooklyn, NY, and Aaron Nevezie at The Bunker Studio, Brooklyn, NY.

Mixed by Todd Sickafoose at Earycanal

Mastering by Alan Douches at West West Side Music

Illustrations by Melanie Chopko
Photo by Jen Painter
Layout and design by Ilusha Tsinadze

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Jean Rohe Brooklyn, New York

Jean Rohe writes one-of-a-kind narrative songs, concerned as much with the interior lives of her narrators as with the wider world outside them. She is a 2022 Brooklyn Arts Council Community Arts Grant recipient. Her latest full-length record as a bandleader, "Sisterly," won best Adult Contemporary Album at the Independent Music Awards in 2019. ... more

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