Name: Benediction
Duration: P00H01M49S
Description: I had Benediction in my head, but never wrote it down or played it until I went in and recorded it. I was aware that I was writing what felt like the third verse of a longer song. I wrote the other two verses and completed a longer version of the song many years later and played it exactly once as part of a set of all of my songs about religion.

Benediction

from Shaker Chair by Rob Siegel

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I had Benediction in my head, but never wrote it down or played it until I went in and recorded it. I was aware that I was writing what felt like the third verse of a longer song. I wrote the other two verses and completed a longer version of the song many years later and played it exactly once as part of a set of all of my songs about religion.

lyrics

I woke up again today
so I guess that I’m still here
the anvil did not fall down
on my head as I had feared
oh god I love my wife these kids
but I can’t stop the train
can we all come back tomorrow
and play with these toys again

oh god don’t take it away from me
oh god don’t take it away from me
I’ll do anything that you want me to
anything but believe in you
oh god don’t take it away

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from Shaker Chair, released June 1, 1999

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Rob Siegel Boston, Massachusetts

Rob Siegel is well-known in Boston folk music circles as an innovative songwriter who draws from his idyllic yet stressed- out middle-class suburban existence and produces memorable, intelligent, well-crafted songs.

His first new CD in 14 years, "A Landscape of Ghosts," will be out in April, with a CD release show at Club Passim on Monday April 30th. ... more

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