Name: Monuments
Duration: P00H02M42S
Description: One of Sugar Still's more recent co-writes at this point, written just before tour. A story of both of our mothers combined into one. The music is some of the most searing and poignant of any we wrote in my opinion, Sarah took the lyric and turned this into dark magic.

Monuments

from Studio Van by Sugar Still

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One of Sugar Still's more recent co-writes at this point, written just before tour. A story of both of our mothers combined into one. The music is some of the most searing and poignant of any we wrote in my opinion, Sarah took the lyric and turned this into dark magic.

lyrics

V1
My mother taught me how to write
Documenting my whole life
When she left I told my father to throw away her archives

CHORUS
Cut the bindings, cut the cables
Sit, there's dinner at the table
Talk together, clean your plate
The clock has changed but it can wait

V2
That week I awoke alone
By the ocean where my bones
Saw the mountains in her eyes, reflecting her ambition

BRIDGE
Now I drive and stare
A hundred variations
A thousand miles to go today
I have no destination
Oooooh

V3
The monuments are left behind
Anchors gone that shaped my mind
Drifting in a weightless state no penance I can find

credits

from Studio Van, released May 1, 2020
Lead vocal and violin - Sarah Blick
Vocal and acoustic guitar - Charlie Cheney

Lyrics - Charlie Cheney
Music - Sarah Blick

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Acoustic duo of the Central Coast.

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