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Every Other Time

by Michael Garrity

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This song was written as an anniversary gift for my wife, Amanda. She often makes a good point that despite the fact that most of my free time is spent playing or writing music, I've never explicitly written anything like a love song for her. Probably because I'm uncomfortable with my emotions.

It's hard to succinctly encapsulate a seven year relationship in a three and a half minute song, so what I tried to capture instead is the anchoring quality of a long partnership and the way that capital-L Love becomes a sort of permeating membrane that blankets everything in your life. How you can spend every day with someone and hear all their stories (multiple times) and create a comfortable life together, and yet still find those moments of transcendence where you get outside of the grooves of what you've built and see them nakedly as themselves and clearly identify the subtle ways they've changed right under your nose. To me, these moments become markers or checkpoints of your love and relationship over time.

Each part this song is intended to be a reference to a moment like that - trips we've taken or parties we've attended or my drunken proposal. Trying to relive and bundle all the times when I am lucky enough to connect with who Amanda is at those times, apart from our history together, while at the same time adding a new layer to the history we're always creating.

lyrics

Somewhere to sit besides our shared backyard
We’ll just throw it on the credit card
A well-earned little treat for both of us
I guess it means whatever we say it does

A real hootenanny
Ain’t it, honey?
Nothing like what I saw coming

Emerging from the separate rooms we’re in
As good a time as any to begin
Dumped out all the coins and bottle caps
Gotta have somewhere to put the ash

It’s a hootenanny
Ain’t it, honey?
Always glad you’re always funny
In the car – no time to waste
The choice I always should’ve made
It’s like I see you for the first time today
Just like every other time I felt this way

Stuck in these old seasons
But I swear that I’m healing
Ignore how I’m freaking out

The song I always wanna sing
Concerns we can’t help but bring
I’m working on it when I think of it

You’re the front car of a speeding subway
Unfolding all around me everyday
Wake up on the floor – thank god you’re home
I’ve got stories I don’t want to go untold

It’s a hootenanny
Ain’t it honey?
Love the view
Vast and stunning
Arriving at a glacial pace
Guided by our own impatience
Scheduling our give and take
For mezcal nights on the promenade
Another source in a new place
The choice I always should’ve made
It’s like I see you for the first time today
Just like every other time I felt this way

credits

released August 1, 2019
Michael Garrity - Guitar, Vocal

Produced by Michael Garrity and Rick Riggs

Engineered, mixed, and mastered by Rick Riggs at Handwritten Recording

Cover photo by Michael Garrity

Special thanks to:
Morgan Garrity, whose last-minute babysitting made this recording possible.
Amy and Arna, for introducing us to mezcal.
Pat Creed, for the beautiful nuptials.
Jon Broeker, for introducing us and not being too mad when we covered his bedside table in coins.

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I live in Chicago and try to record as much as I can. I'll put it on this Web page when it's ready to go.

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