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Supermoon

from Apple Apple by Harmonica Pocket

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    "...Fluid, sweet, and marinated in love. - Cheery Blossoms Blog

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about

This song was written March 22, 2011.

Once upon a time I got a special request from a 2 year-old fan's father. His Dad emailed me saying his son Tyler wanted to hear "a song about a moon."

A few weeks later I heard that a supermoon was coming on March 19th, 2011. A supermoon? I had never heard of one, but it intrigued me with it's poetic name.

(Remember from high school how orbits are elliptical? A Supermoon occurs when the moon is full at the point it is closest in orbit to Earth. If that doesn't make sense, read more about it here: en.wikipedia.org/wikI /Supermoon

Some people say supermoons are correlated with earthquakes and strange fish washing up from the deep ocean. And that terrible earthquake in Fukushima happened about a week before the March 2011 supermoon.

I told you that to tell you this...)

I love the moon. I'm not the first. Me and a few hundred thousand others have written about the hanging moon. During that supermoon time the moon was shining especially bright on my mind. Out under the big moon one night I began singing this song.

The song is definitely inspired by the magical realism of Colombian novelist Gabriel García Márquez (ants carrying off the baby, and someone' sister floating away one afternoon while folding sheets). But I had quick fun composing the story and playing with the moon in a new way. Yes, in a way it's a linear story with one verse leading into the next, but I'm never sure if it's about a balloon, a lover, or a child who won't fall asleep.

Anyway, I sent a quick recording of the song to Tyler and his Dad. Even though I was impatient to share it with everyone else, I waited until "Apple Apple" to release the song.

Our friend Aimée Ringle joins Nala and I for some 3 part harmony. She is a lovely singer and it was superfun to record Supermoon with her.

lyrics

Supermoon
Floating high
White balloon
In the sky
Your kite string
Just by chance
Tangled on
The maple branch
Supermoon

Supermoon
Fell down hard
Crash into
My backyard
Woke the birds
And us all
With the noise
From your fall
Supermoon

Pick you up
Off the ground
Take you in
Side my house
Wash your face
Clean you up
Put bandaids
On your cuts
Supermoon

Tomorrow
When we wake
We can build
A staircase
To the sky
Made of stone
So you can
Return home
Supermoon

Guess it's time
Say goodbye
Climb the stairs
To the sky
Don't be sad
See you soon
You'll be back
Supermoon

Supermoon
Floating high
White balloon
In the sky
Supermoon

credits

from Apple Apple, released August 14, 2012
Keeth Monta Apgar - guitars, ukulele, bass, vocals, harmonica, toy piano
Nala Walla - vocals
Aimée Ringle - vocals
Tom Zgonc - drums & percussion
Jack Forman - bass

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Harmonica Pocket Port Townsend, Washington

Acoustic & chill, The Harmonica Pocket will win you over with laid-back originals and playful re-workings of songs you love.

Recorded on a tiny island in the Pacific Northwest using solar electricity, their albums feature ukuleles and guitars strummed over tight vocal harmonies and delicate fingerplucked melodies. Horn sections swell and tiny musical secrets are woven into the corners of the mix.
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