"Channel" from Blood From Stars by Joe Henry

Joe Henry - Blood From Stars Channel

Tracks on this album

1.Prelude: Light No Lamp When The Sun Comes Down
2.The Man I Keep Hid
3.Channel
4.This Is My Favorite Cage
5.Death To The Storm
6.All Blues Hail Mary
7.Bellwether
8.Progress of Love
9.Over Her Shoulder
10.Suit On A Frame
11.Truce
12.Stars
13.Coda: Light No Lamp When The Sun Comes Down

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Contributors

ISRC:USEP40913003
Recorded:2009 The Garfield House - South Pasadena, CA

Upright & Tack Piano, Field Organ, Keyboards:Patrick Warren
Vocals, Acoustic & Electric Guitar:Joe Henry
Drums, Percussion:Jay Bellerose
Keyboards, Piano, Vibraphone:Keefus Ciancia
Tenor & Soprano Saxophone, Clarinet:Levon Henry
Bass:David Piltch
Electric, Acoustic & Gut String Guitar, Bowed Banjo, Coronet:Marc Ribot

Lyrics

How can I change the light—
The color of this room?
Why can’t this channel find
A kinder afternoon?
I feel the fray
In every letter
To cross your tongue
But know no better disarray,
Disarray

I want my story straight
But all the others bend—
From wondrous to strange,
To beauty at the end.
I move along
A swaying wire—
Your talking drums
A perfect choir to my disarray,
Disarray,
Disarray

Each fuzzy word I send
Returns a finer blade
To touch the thought balloon
Of every plan I’ve laid.
I know the switch
But keep the station—
I love you
With all due desperation and disarray,
Disarray,
Disarray
Disarray…