8) Sepia [4:16]

BPM 72 ~ C Minor and C Major ~ ISRC: CA7W42200008  

“Sepia” is a song written out of concern for the Earth, our shared home. We offer it as well for anyone suffering the loss of home for any reason, which happens all too often in our own community and around the world. We felt the wind in our sails with the musical arrangement - an intertwining banjo-mandolin duet and vocal harmonies at the core, extending into electric guitar from Luke, deep, dark bass from jazz bassist Patrick Reid, and strings from Kaitlyn Raitz, and Ben Plotnick (The Fretless) bringing a kaleidoscopic range of colour and texture, all tied up in nostalgia and melancholy. Released as a single on November 16, it truly feels like a November song. Thanks for listening, dear friends. 

-Sarah 

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LYRICS 

Let me tell you  

We ignored the alarm bells  

Tried to call them wedding bells,  

Dinner bells,  

School bells  

I’m looking at sepia  

Trying to remember the colour we used to live in  

The blush of our Mother  

Has been smothered  

By a sickly yellow  

Smog seeps in  

Sepia  

Do you remember  

The sun would lift her lashes across the sky  

Leaving a hush in my heart, a sigh  

Gentle magenta giving way to blue  

Oh, heavenly hue  

Where are you?  

I’m listening to static  

Feeling nostalgic  

For the birds and their morning song  

I used to sing along before it all went wrong  

The trees would tell their stories  

Of gladness and glory  

Now their leaves are but ashes on the ground  

The silence is thick  

Static  

Do you remember  

The sun would lift her lashes across the sky  

Leaving a hush in my heart,  

A sigh  

Gentle magenta giving way to blue  

Oh, heavenly hue  

Where are you?  

Ooohh…  

Tried to call them wedding bells,  

Dinner bells,  

School bells  

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CREDITS 

Song written by Sarah Frank  

vocals, banjo - Sarah Frank  

vocals, mandolin, electric guitar - Luke Fraser  

cello - Kaitlyn Raitz  

violin, viola - Ben Plotnick  

bass - Patrick Reid  

recording, mixing - Graeme Campbell  

mastering - J. LaPointe  

album artwork - Bee Stanton and Linda Wei-Chun  

single artwork - photo by Luke Fraser  

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One-Stop, The Bombadils Music,  

music@thebombadils.com,  

1-904-495-1150,  

ISRC: CA7W42200008  

Instrumental version available,  

Female lead vocal with male harmonies,  

Mandolin, banjo, strings, electric guitar,  

Mid-tempo,  

Environmentalism, climate change, sad, grief, regret, melancholy, nostalgia, beauty, nature, planet Earth, home, loss of home, RIYL Punch Brothers  

Composed and self-published by Sarah Frank (SOCAN) 100%  

Master Owned by The Bombadils Music (Sarah Frank and Luke Fraser)

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