From the recording Baby Eagle
Jenny Rice Baker: lyrics
Music Written By: James Patrick Michael Baker
Josh Featherstone: vocals, guitar
James Baker: vocals, guitar, organ, mandolin, bass, drums
John Tallman: Trumpet
Lyrics
"eighty eight"
In November '88, a blue flowered couch,
Muffled laughter and worries from the kitchen
Watching dusty sunbeams fall,
Sounds of football, plates, and fear of war.
Stealing bites from the set table
The clock is a suggestion for now
A moment frozen in time
They are all so old in '88
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Seeking solace outside, escaping the heat.
A walk through the woods
Kicking acorns, unaware
This was freedom, as much as it would be.
Unaware we were inheriting
All that we didn't create,
A recipe, a world passed down to me
Wrapped carefully
I'm as young as they were, in '88