Under The Rug :: I’M IN HERE ALONE!!!!!! :: Live In The Living Room

Hey. Casey here. I’ve been revisiting some of my old favorites. Sometimes I’ll do this during a growing phase (and boyyyyooo am I in one now).
Rediscovered this gem-underneath my rambling-by Naomi Shihab Nye, who I had the pleasure of meeting in my creative writing program years ago (I’ll never forget giving her a crinkled, food-stained, and terrible short story I was working on).
Anyways, in the buck-toothed spirit of growth, I’m learning cello, wrote this song, and did my best.
This song is those “borders we must cross separately” in Naomi’s wonderful poem…
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Making A Fist
For the first time, on the road north of Tampico,
I felt the life sliding out of me,
a drum in the desert, harder and harder to hear.
I was seven, I lay in the car
watching palm trees swirl a sickening pattern past the glass.
My stomach was a melon split wide inside my skin.
“How do you know if you are going to die?”
I begged my mother.
We had been traveling for days.
With strange confidence she answered,
“When you can no longer make a fist.”
Years later I smile to think of that journey,
the borders we must cross separately,
stamped with our unanswerable woes.
I who did not die, who am still living,
still lying in the backseat behind all my questions,
clenching and opening one small hand.

[@DWoo-cd4hg]

Thanks, guys. That's a big fat carrot of a song.

[@knighttaylor4272]

Man that was relatable af these guys are gifted I can feel the pain through the instruments that's one of my favorite things about utr

[@-shmoopie-]

I think this is one of my new favorites 😍 those lyrics man!!

[@Lets_RC]

It’s good. An unbelievably good song that you can listen to on repeat. I felt this song. You guys deserve all the successes! What an awesome song!!!9

[@nicolewyant8743]

It’s my new favorite and I’m obsessed ❤

[@lydia4267]

I only have one heart, we're playing fast and loose with it with this song!

[@MarvinLiyanage]

Casey! Every song i listen to from you guys I’m more inspired. Love love love the music

[@valeriecox1782]

You didn't butcher it Casey...I love it!!

[@heatherlucas272]

Wow. Just when I thought you guys couldn't impress me more, you did. This is absolutely beautiful.

[@dustinmcdaniel265]

This is my favorite livingroom performance yet, you guys are awesome. ❤❤❤

[@cathydrums2846]

Wow!!!!! This is fantastic!!!

[@RoseJackson79]

Love seeing you give the Cello a go Casey.....amazing sounds come from that beast

[@levicull626]

Dang. This is fire 🔥

[@davidplace5346]

Love the song 🎵 awesome job 👏

[@Roboman125]

It may seem cheesy but without a doubt y'all are a bunch of geniuses.

[@jilljartsvideos8760]

I agree 💯

[@anitastamm7350]

Indeed

[@danielmclellan7762]

Are they genius? Or is this the synergy created by honestly and love?

[@666pinkster]

cool song ;)

[@joecoo4615]

This amazing getting vibes of Adam Duritz, counting crowa and dreaming.
Love this one, yes indeed definitely
Got yourselves an anthem!!!

[@joshedmiston6694]

Whew. That ending… 🙌🏼

[@amandaspencer2085]

Goosebumps

[@valeriecox1782]

Her poem is beautiful and profound. ❤

[@mandydarcy-kincaid1303]

Aahh, lovely.. Perfect start to my day, amazing track 👍😊🎵🎶

[@kaitlinlangdon9709]

Damn.❤

[@TransCrip_Niko]

god, this song really connects to the feelings i had pre transition. its super difficult for me to cry now on T, but i was moved to tears tbh. such a gorgeous song

[@MarlBuggsy]

Wow, I just keep discovering more and more of your great music, since I 1st heard you guys on WCBE and got to see perform at The Basement here in Columbus back on November 16th

[@rachelz982]

I’m late but I’m here now and catching up. 😮❤️‍🔥

[@ketchuph8r]

great new song! hello cello!! 👏 👏 i could really hear the "caps and all" toward the end 😌

[@mermaid360]

❤mind blowing, no words

[@justincomolli3014]

So f-ing GOOD!!!!

[@glennathea]

Whow, your music sucked my soul in, thanks ;)

[@amandaspencer2085]

Fucking hell! That was amazing 💚🤯