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about
The seed of this song goes back as far 2010. In fact, some of the instrumentation used in this version were recorded as far back as 2014.
This recording was finished in March of 2020, but its release was waylaid by COVID, and by me becoming a father, among many many other things.
This song has always been my personal poem for some reflection on growth, linear or not. My favorite line is sung by my characters at the end of each chorus:
"Oh, how we'd say: 'There is nothing on this earth too great to give away.'"
Appropriately, after several years of major upheaval and uncertainty, "How We've Changed" is the title track of a new LP being released on June 24th, 2022.
lyrics
HOW WE'VE CHANGED:
We were born at the foot
Of the museum ruins.
With our feet
Inches deep
In the cinder.
I propose, unlike those,
In the antique cartoons,
We were flawed in unusual ways
Oh How We’ve Changed
Of the marble leaf, and ivory trees
Of the backyard that we’d made
Oh How We’d Say,
“There is nothing on this earth too great to give away.”
We’d employ all the loons
At the Marquette Hotel
To remark on the starkness and decline
Of the neighborhood lawns and the smokey
pastels that were once so vividly green
Oh what it means,
To be witness to the thriftlessness of irony.
High from my balcony, as we blow a smoke ring, circling the city scene.
And out in the rain,
The boulevards and city streets
Still cut to me.
Oh how we’d say,
“There is nothing on this earth too great to give away.”
We’d succumb to the popular tune of the day,
And we quietly lay in the embers
Of the roadways that hum, and the monuments made
Out of cardboard and paper mache.
Oh How We’ve Changed
Oh How We’ve Changed
credits
released April 1, 2022
"How We've Changed" written by Andy Ulseth (Property of Northern Gold Songs, BMI)
Andy Ulseth - Vocals, Guitar, Keys, Bass
Matthew Schiebe - Drums
Molly Ulseth - Vocals
Emily Mohrbacher - Vocals
Charlie Porter - Trumpet
Recorded by Andy Ulseth, with some additional tracking by Eric Carlson.
Mixed and Mastered by Eric Carlson
Construction Crane 1, Oil on Canvas, 2019 used with permission by Bryn Harding
Andy Ulseth is a craftsman songwriter from Minnesota. A state known for brutal winters, and liberal politics. His folk songs
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