REUNION
by David Poe
Copyright 1997 Charming Martyr/BMI.

REUNION

Won't you come down
She said
Come down
To my family reunion
Come down
You can meet my dad
You can see my home
They are the reason
My love gets strong
The bar I haunted
Before there was you

Won't you come down?
She said
Come down
To my holiday at home
This is the room
The chair he sat in
Now it's powder-burn blue
This is where it happened
And that's my sister
And her husband the bastard
She smiles at his mustache
It's his latest disaster
My sister used to get high
She used to make a sound
Now she's sweet and low
When he's around
But she's happy for me
Because I found you

You see how the time is frozen cold
Is this how we're gonna get if we get old?
I don't know

Won't you come home?
Come home
To my family reunion
Come home
It's just how we left it
Everything's in place
When you went away
A little shrine was made
And did you see my mother?
Did you see her face?
There are some things
Time won't erase
Ask her if there's something in the kitchen that needs tending to
But she'll say no
Unless she likes you
But you know there's nothing any one of us can do

Yeah, yeah, yeah

From the album David Poe (Sony/550)
Released in the US 1997; in Europe, 1999 on Ulftone

Sim Cain: drums
John Abbey: bass, banjo
David Poe: guitar, dobro
T-Bone Burnett: ukelin

Produced by T-Bone Burnett
Recorded by Susan Rogers
Recorded at The Magic Shop, New York and Sunset Sound, Los Angeles
Mixed by Sim Cain
Mix engineered by Greg Frey at RPM Studios, New York
Mastered by Joe Palmaccio at Sterling Sound, New York

Also from the album Love Is Red (The Lab/Universal)
Released in the US in 2005; in Europe 2004, on Ulftone

Sim Cain: drums
John Abbey: bass
David Poe: guitar

Recorded by Jim Voxx
Mixed by Brad Jones at The Maid's Room, New York
Mastered by Gene Paul at dB Plus

Some songs explain themselves or shouldn't be explained at all and this is one of them. But I should note that this was not inspired directly by my own family, but by someone else's.

On this recording for the debut album, Sim Cain played a big marching band bass drum on two tracks, giving it a four-on-the-floor pulse. John Abbey played banjo -- a first. T-Bone Burnett played an instrument he had just acquired, a sort of dulcimer-meets-autoharp called a ukelin. You can hear his contribution on the tiney whole notes at the bridge. I played the guitar solo, a pentatonic scale mastered as a young guitar student via the song "Freewill" by Rush.