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Shaker Chair (live)

from Shaker Chair by Rob Siegel

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The original version of Shaker Chair had bass and drum overdubs. I've replaced with this live version, which is also on "Voices From the Right Brain," as it's much better. I've included the original version at the end of the CD. This version was, ironically, recorded at the show for the release of this very CD. I remember hearing it and thinking "great, NOW I capture a good live version; what the hell am I supposed to do with it?" Ah, the wonders of technology.

lyrics

Like a Feather
when I was a boy
I studied the sky
wondering who’s up there
and how long and why
but the more that I looked
the less that I heard
sometimes I still glance upward
expecting some word

Moses he walked 40 years in the sand
looking for something
he might understand
god it must have been hard
at the end of the day
to go to his flock
and find something to say

they call them dreams
because they might come true
it’s important to me
how about you
we careen through this life
on the edge of control
like a feather aloft
when the wind starts to blow

now I’m all grown up
it’s not what it seems
I still glance upwards
I have the same dreams
the one I like best
is where I rule the world
I buy everyone snickers
and kiss my best girl

in my next life
I don’t know where I’ll be
I might be a candle
I might just be me
but something simple and restful
white clouds in the air
I know I’ll still be smiling
if I’m still somewhere

Shaker Chair

I’m just a plain shaker chair
propped up in the corner
I don’t know who put me there
no pad straight legs straight back
stripped to bare essentials
but there’s nothing that I lack
I may be very simple
but form follows function fine
it’s been 200 years
but I’m in fashion at this time
and I’m just a plain shaker chair

well I’m a naugahyde barcalounger
and I live to recline
I hold your fat white butt in comfort
while you channel surf and dine
I’ve got potato chips and pretzels
in my crevices and cracks
spilled lite beer and pizza
and other nasty snacks
you might laugh at my morphology
but I am just what I see
I’m a naugahyde barcalounger
lay your sweaty flesh on me

well I’m a king size heated waterbed
and I don’t get no respect
people think I’m only good
for cheesy motel sex
but mister I’m here to tell you
I hold a family of five
while mom and dad read stories
to the little ones at night
and I’m so warm and comfy
oh they tell me that I am
that dad can’t stay awake
while reading green eggs and ham
they ride on gentle waves of vinyl
‘till they all fall fast asleep
then daddy carries the little ones
from the waterbed
to the other bed
it’s a bunk bed
it’s so functional
so impersonal
not like a waterbed
then mom and dad make sleepylove
in the waterbed

well
I am just a pair of sox behind the bedroom couch
I know that I’m not furniture
but I just felt left out

I’m just a plain shaker chair
god I wish that you would sit on me
you don’t even know I’m there
I know I can’t compete
with mister naugahyde barcalounger
or a waterbed with heat
but maybe 50 years from now
when the waterbed’s run dry
the barcalounger’s come unstuffed
and it’s just you and I
you’ll sit
in a plain
shaker chair

credits

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.
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