Henry Hudson - Live
Written and Performed by Melanie MacLaren
Produced by Jack Schneider
Mixed and Mastered by Matt Andrews
Video by Annelise Loughead
Lyrics
Meet me where the sidewalk ends
There’s a bust of Von Humboldt, and a hot dog stand
We can cut through the park or walk the museum
Look at stolen goods on stolen land
Everything seems the same to me
I don’t know what I come back here expecting to see
Since I told myself I was sick of this city
Everything looks the same to me
But where is the girl in the white velcro tennis shoes
Climbing an empty green bench
Where is the man who would rush home from work
Just to push her along on a swing set
Time, time, time
I’ll stay out your way
If you stay out of mine
Used to see the river from my parents’ apartment
Now its blocked by the sanitation department
Hell’s Kitchen is all new construction
Did you know what you had on your hands Henry Hudson?
Cuz I wrote a paper on you in sixth grade
Creeped me out that your crew formed a mutiny
Left you to die all alone in the bay
You are gone, you are gone
But the water remains
Time, time, time
I’ll stay out your way
If you stay out of mine
I don’t go back to Ohio much anymore
What’s the point, its just where my mother was born
Lots of cornfields and cousins and bales of hay
Trips to target and fast food chains
But where is my short grandpa cleaning his gun
And where, where is the tall one?
His favorite song was Blood on the Saddle
I met him a few times when I was young
And I’m ashamed I was ashamed when I was a kid
Of spending my summers out in their trailer park
Thought I was too good for it, but I wasn’t
Now I can’t even call and tell them I love them
Time, time, time
I’ll stay out your way
If you stay out of mine
Time, time, time
I don’t like the way
I look in your light