Empty Pocket Waltz is the first single from Gaya Feldheim Schorr's debut album, "I Have Considered The Lilies", a tribute to the music & story of the lost singer-songwriter Connie Converse.
I Have Considered The Lilies is Gaya’s reimagination of the music of Connie Converse, an enigmatic singer-songwriter who left behind a staggering archive of music and texts after her disappearance in 1974. Alongside a group of cult-favorite Brooklynite collaborators including Grey Mcmurray (guitar), Tal Yahalom (guitar), and Eva Lawitts (bass), Gaya invites the listener into the intimate world of Converse’s songs, poems, and ontological wrestlings with equal doses of warmth and melancholy.
To be released April 23rd, 2020.
lyrics
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Shall we dine out, my dear,
And dance the night away?
Don't say you're tired;
You know you haven't worked all day.
We paid the rent finally,
And we're free to be be free.
Come now and waltz
The Empty Pocket Waltz with me.
Let's close our door
And make believe we're all alone.
Grandma can't hear,
And Baby's sleeping like a stone.
We paid the doctor his fee,
And we're free to be be free.
Come now and waltz
The Empty Pocket Waltz with me.
Why so unhappy?
Don't be that way.
Maybe they'll make me
Queen for a day.
You'll find a job, probably,
Or be free, or be free.
Come waltz again
This Empty Pocket Waltz with me.
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credits
from I Have Considered The Lilies,
track released March 27, 2020
Empty Pocket Waltz, feat. Tal Yahalom
Released March 27th, 2020
Composition & lyrics by Connie Converse
Production, arrangements and research by Gaya Feldheim Schorr
Gaya Feldheim Schorr - voice
Tal Yahalom - guitar
Grey Mcmurray - guitar
Eva Lawitts - Bass
Produced by Gaya Feldheim Schorr & Daniel Bloch
Mixed and mastered by Daniel Bloch
Engineered by Chris Krasnow and Eva Lawitts at Wonderpark Studios, with additional engineering by Daniel Bloch at Soda Aroma Studios.
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