RACHBACH - "THEATRICS"
CRUMBRUSTER is my 5th collection of landfill folk songs from the quarantine era. I wrote these during the California wildfire season of August 2020 when the pandemic seemed never ending and election dread was growing. Not much to look at but listen along in playlist form during a round of weed pulling or box cutting. Ciao!
Curtain call
Down take a bow
You did a solid job
Of eking through another day
Paradise / Lost in your eyes
The worst is yet to come / undone
See your feet / Standing in the moment
Hear the hands /Applauding all your modeling
Rise on up / Break out a grin
10 hours / Do it all again /Again and again
Ovation up
Spotlight erupts
Eyes adjust
Don’t blow your lines this time
Hit the marks / Say the right things
It's rote you know / Just another repeat
Method made / A role you were born to play
Deja vu / Moving through another day
Rise on up / Break out a grin
10 hours / Do it all again / Again and again
Reacting like
Life had surprises
Left inside
To keep you from crying
Theatre of the absurd
Traps and ropes
Keep time by dying