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Would You Like to Come In?

from Optimist Breakfast by Dean Batten

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A solo rerecording of the previously-released single, this take on "Would You Like to Come In?" is deliberately slower and more flowing, eschewing the driving train-rhythms to make room for the lyrics to really settle into the listener's ears.
It's a strange thing, being alive in a place at a time. Makes you wonder what you were before all this, and where you might be going after...

lyrics

A break in the clouds above me
With light pouring in
A red-feather hawk
I'm kin to him
You open the door
"Ah, you again"
Say, "It's so good to see you!
Would you like to come in?"

A wind on the freeway shatters
And engines combust
A fragment of memory still burns through the dust
I saw their car
Through all that orange
They said, "It's so good to see you.
Would you like to come in?"

Awake in the morning, breathless
My throat all closed off
The birds are all chirping, when I
Start to cough
Your eyes squint
Tight
Then open wide
To the morning light
I'm by your side
You lift the sheet
And crack that grin
Say, "It's so good to see you!
Would you like to come in?"

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from Optimist Breakfast, released April 29, 2023

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Dean Batten Daytona Beach, Florida

Often genre-bending, thought provoking and emotion stoking, Dean Batten's music is most concretely one thing: captivating.

Moving forward from his previous work, Dean has re-embraced the folk, early rock and country sounds of his childhood with 3 new albums: "Optimist Breakfast", an acoustic album; "Pessimist Lunch", a full band version with the same songs; and "Realist Supper", a live album. ... more

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