Lyrics
The juniper on the fire escape
Came in my father's terra cotta.
A kind of living photograph,
a quiet, stubborn kind of patience.
Its roots map the cracks in the clay,
the way the 10 freeway splits the city.
[Chorus]
It's just water and copper wire
And a kind of remembering.
It's just Pico Boulevard light
And a kind of remembering.
[Verse 2]
The hiss of the spray bottle
Cool on my knuckles.
Sunday, 4 PM, when the Expo train sighs,
I trim the branches that reach too far.
"Don't force the shape," he'd say, "just suggest it."
[Spoken Word Interlude]
(Voice of an older Japanese man, through a slightly distorted, old phone recording)
"Chet? Is... ah, Chester. The soil. You check the soil? Needs to breathe. Not too wet. Don't drown it. Okay. Call me."
[Bridge]
Same bitter taste of metal
As the horn left on my teeth.
A smaller, slower kind of music.
[Chorus]
It's just water and copper wire
And a kind of remembering.
It's just Pico Boulevard light
And a kind of remembering.
[Outro]
Roots find the seams
in the pot I didn't choose.
About Chet Beaker
Chet Beaker was raised in a Sawtelle apartment to the sound of his father's trumpet—a technically perfect, emotionally distant echo of the West Coast jazz scene. He inherited the horn but found his own voice in the quiet spaces his father's music never allowed. Now, he uses that trumpet and a hushed, half-whispered vocal to write songs about his Japanese-American home, unspoken family histories…
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