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"Holy Signs 2" (Mt. Everest Cover) ft. Aimee Bayles

by Nat Osborn

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This song is a tribute to a dear friend who in no small way inspired the origin of this page. When I found myself quarantined in beautiful Nova Scotia earlier this year with access to an inspiring sonic space filled with a number of instruments I decided to challenge myself to writing, recording, and releasing a song a week for the duration of my time there. It was a herculean creative effort that I found both incredibly exhilarating but also exhausting.

My friend Jesse Lindsey has done what I did for 13 weeks for ten years. TEN YEARS! Last week was his 10th anniversary of writing, recording, and releasing a song a week for a decade. 523 songs in total.

Please pay a visit to his site to listen to his considerable catalogue and support him: mounteverestweekly.com

To celebrate this monumental milestone a number of our mutual friends recorded tributes to him. I ended up choosing his song from week 492 (!), called "Holy Signs 2". I was drawn to this song the first time I heard it. Jesse is a poet, able to find deep meaning in distinctive imagery and unexpected metaphors. I find his writing to be both beautifully simple and subtly complex. I think this song encapsulates that perfectly. It’s about finding, or at least looking for, meaning in the little images of life.

Lending her incredible talents to this cover project is Aimee Bayles, my creative partner in the folk band Hawthorne.

This song is the first I’ve produced entirely in my apartment in Brooklyn since returning from Canada. The first of many I suspect.

Enjoy “Holy Signs 2”, a tribute to my dear friends’ incredible creativity and determination.

lyrics

Signs
I've been listening forever
I've studied calls of the morning birds
Assigned too much meaning to the minor chords
That they form

And I've run out of context
Does the light move across the blinds
To remind me I'm losing time

And into the water we go
Into the water and out of sight
I could swim clear to the opposite shore
To find the perspective I'm looking for

Fall asleep in the afternoon
Shake with a dream I don't want
Wake with a start as the light falls
And finds its way home

What would I do with context?
Would I sort out the beats of my past
Or decipher what's coming up next?

And into the water we go
Into the water and out of sight
I could swim clear to the opposite shore
To find the perspective I'm looking for

Holy signs
Oh holy signs
Holy signs
Oh holy signs

And into the water we go
Into the water and out of sight
I could swim clear to the opposite shore
To find the perspective I'm looking for

credits

released December 4, 2020
Written by Jesse Lindsey
Produced by Nat Osborn
Performed by Nat Osborn and Aimee Bayles

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