American Foursquare (Simplified EP)

by Denison Witmer

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1.	Birds of Virginia (Simplified Mix) 05:04	lyrics	buy track
I can fix your father’s chair up for you I can paint the hallway in a day I can drop the subject if you want to I know how late is too late Here I stand beside you in the market Here I carry water to the bed Here I make love with you like a prophet To empty the thoughts in your head You are the light of my home You are the mother of my children You are my calm and my wild You are my everything You are the birds of Virginia You have a universe in you A flash of bright in my winter You are the birds of Virginia One step at a time, love Every day before me is a god You can bury your face in my shirt I won’t drop you, I won’t drop you You’re so kind to me sometimes it hurts
2.	Simple and True (Simplified Mix) 03:02	lyrics
If you don’t reach me from the other side, you know how I react You’ve gone to Paris with your mother It’s two weeks until you come back I rearranged all the furniture Just trying to relax And pass my days without you I don’t mind the time alone I need the space to clear my head I wash the dishes in the sink and fold the laundry on our bed I tried to follow an idea… somehow lost the thread And that’s my day without you Then I found your picture and I put it in a frame Thought about how 10 years later, I still feel the same Have the choices I made spilled our lives out on the floor? Somehow convinced myself that I’m not welcome anymore I need to see your hands, your eyes, your body through my door Tell me I’m crazy My love for you is simple and its true I love you
3.	River of Music (Simplified Mix) 03:27	lyrics
Lay me down on a river of music And push me back out into myself To the chime of a guitar The shake of a drum The walk of a piano The voices that hum Lay me down Where would I be if I didn’t have music? Light bending through the window Red leaf in the sky By the middle of week… How much can I take? Then a song comes through… I know that I’ll make it We live in a difficult time How do you want to live your life? Where are you going to spend your love? Isn’t that alone enough? I’m having a difficult time How do I want to live my life? Where am I going to spend my love? Isn’t that alone enough? Isn’t love alone enough?
4.	Roseanne (Simplified Mix) 05:20	lyrics
Roseanne I still hear your voice It echoes from suburbs outside of Detroit We packed our guitars and our clothes And carved your friend’s minivan down the west coast Birthdays and our friends’ weddings We missed them all just to play and to sing You can’t be in every place You learn to extend yourself a little grace Six weeks straight out on the road Driving late after the shows Sleep in places nobody knows I would never trade the memory But I would never say it’s easy You called when your dad almost died You moved back home and then you had a child The way that you care for them both Roseanne, I’ve been there I know it’s no joke My life is the same as before One eye on my family One eye on the door You know what I’m speaking of The sacrifice we make for the ones that we love Six weeks straight out on the road Driving late after the shows Sleep in places nobody knows I would never trade the memory I would never say it’s easy

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All songs written by Denison Witmer. Havre De Grace Music Publishing (BMI)

Produced and arranged by Thomas Bartlett, Andy Park, Denison Witmer, & Abby Gundersen

Birds of Virginia, Simple and True, River of Music mixed by Denison Witmer with arrangement assistance from Don Peris.

Roseanne arranged and mixed by Steven Aguilar

Mastered by Ed Brooks

Performers:
Denison Witmer
Andy Park
Abby Gundersen
Thomas Bartlett
Aaron Campbell
Don Peris
Karen Peris

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released January 8, 2021

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Denison Witmer Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Denison Witmer has been recording and releasing music since 1995 when he released a cassette titled My Luck, My Love, under the tutelage of the Innocence Mission’s Don Peris. Since then, Witmer has been steadily releasing music every few years. He now has over a dozen critically acclaimed EPs and LPs to his name. ... more

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