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Heart to Transcend

from Presenting Tara Shupe: Destroyer by Tara Shupe

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Here each day he sat
growing old and cold with his cats
looking out at a country spiraling to hell
from his porch on the hour with his cigarette
He thinks of his first wife
tells himself he does not miss that life
To go back to those hallways back to those hills
rolling out from the highways rumbling waves of goodbyes

Cause when you come from a place from the first day
You can never outrun, can not erase
You will always pretend that you choose the end
while you search for the heart to transcend

In the summer heat
playing war with the kids on the street
Lucianno broke his arm and stopped the game
so they all made a brace with the surrender sheet
They had both made it home
so he took the news like a stone
packed up his car took a pill for the pain
drove away from the faces and closets of bones

Cause when you come from a place from the first day
You can never outrun, can not erase
You will always pretend that you choose the end
while you search for the heart to transcend

He went in his sleep
heart gave out to the long slow beep
Then all of the pain fell from his face
as he dreamt he dove into the deep
They all filed by
shook their heads and they closed their eyes
Purple heart pinned as his final grace
It's been holding all of the lost goodbyes
And laid to rest down by his feet
the broken cats no one could keep

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from Presenting Tara Shupe: Destroyer, released March 16, 2018
Mandolin, Lead vocals: Tara Shupe
Bass: Erin Youngberg
Guitars: Mike Robinson
Fiddle: Ryan Drickey
Pedal Steel: Aaron Youngberg
Drums: Bart Olson
Harmonies: Megan Simper, Tim Neu


Recorded by Aaron Youngberg at Swingfingers Studios, Fort Collins, CO
Mandolin, lead vocals, and harmony vocals recorded at Prairie Root Studios, Salt Lake City, UT
Drums recorded by Daniel Young at Orchard Studio, North Salt Lake, UT

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Tara Shupe Salt Lake City, Utah

A lifetime immersed in bluegrass, old-time, and American roots music influences the multi-instrumental Tara Shupe in her thoughtful arrangements of old-standards and originals.

Starting first on mandolin at age 4 then taking up fiddle, guitar, and recently banjo throughout her extensive career,
Tara's first solo album features her strong instrumentation on achingly personal, yet timely songs. ... more

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