Lyrics
(A Cappella) We buried the names under the new stop at Bundy Station,
(A Cappella) Poured the concrete smooth, a clean foundation.
(Instruments enter) The August when the ginkgo leaves refused to turn,
A quiet trade, a peace we didn't earn.
[Chorus]
Is it mercy if the forgetting feels like grace?
This quiet we built to take your place.
[Verse 2]
We don't know the taste of persimmons from that tree.
We just hear the hum of the 10, constant and free.
"'Let the ghosts go,' Jii-chan whispered, hand on the horn."
A metal tang on the mouthpiece, newly born.
[Chorus]
Is it mercy if the forgetting feels like grace?
This quiet we built to take your place.
[Bridge]
But sometimes a crack spiders out on the curb,
And a single green shoot dares to disturb.
[Outro]
A peace we didn't earn.
(false ending with 3-second pause)
[Coda]
(whispered over fragmented beat and muted trumpet solo)
Bundy Station...
...feels like grace...
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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