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Jade and Honey

by Joseph Fisher-Schramm

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The first single off my upcoming full-length album, Starving by Design.

This song was the first written following the more... let's say "artsy," works, such as those on "No, It's You" and "Runoff." There were also some that were just downright difficult - changing time signatures, pandiatonicism, what have you (K does that too, but these ones were worse to play.) I figured that maybe I needed to remember how to write songs as songs. Hence, Jade and Honey was the first full song that I had written in a few years without writing it out (as sheet music.)

People often question the lyrics, especially the rather striking main line of the chorus. While I ride with the statement that once a work of art is published, the opinions people make of its topic can be just as valid as the original intentions, I see no problem in sharing my explanation. It is, simply put, a love song, for Zoë VK. The "cold, dead, eyes" line was in my head before we had met, but the rest of it fleshed out as a song as our romance has. Intimacy comes with a change of tone from the day-to-day manner a person has. When things are set in motion, someone's expressions change. That's where that line comes from.

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Spring has come
Seasons can't help but change
Yet after all this time, the way we feel has remained the same

Fire wheels lay without refuge from the rain
Evening thunder strikes
We realize it's here we'll stay

Then, you look at me like that
A look so sure, what's a man to say?

I wanna kiss those cold, dead eyes
(Make them feel alive,
Sanguine desire,
Yours and mine...)

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released November 16, 2019
Written by Joseph Fisher(-Schramm)

Joseph Fisher-Schramm: Vocals, guitar, piano
Chris Hicks: Fretless bass guitar
Caleb Schramm: Drum kit
Joey Byboth: Guitar Solo
Justin Morse: Guitar effects and technician

Co-produced and co-engineered by Tori Varnes and Michael Johnson
Mixed by Tori Varnes
Mastered by Michael Johnson
Published by Trite Things Played (ASCAP) and distributed by A Study in Expression

Photo concept by Zoë Martin and Austin Campbell
Photography by Austin Campbell
Model: Zoë Vande Kieft

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