Lyrics
The Ballona Creek bed is dry this September,
just thistle and rust from the chain-link fence.
(sound of phone ringing once, then voicemail beep)
Hey. It's me. Uh... I'm down at the channel.
[Chorus]
And the sky's gone persimmon orange again.
Yeah, the sky's gone persimmon orange again.
Like a slow-motion flood, a beautiful end.
[Verse 2]
There's a shopping cart overturned by the concrete,
like the skeleton of something that tried.
Remember you said, "Watch the roots. They'll break your ankles."
Tastes like copper on the wind from the hillside fires.
[Chorus]
And the sky's gone persimmon orange again.
Yeah, the sky's gone persimmon orange again.
Like a slow-motion flood, a beautiful end.
[Bridge]
I think I finally get what you meant by the silence.
That quiet... that distance... was a kind of cement,
holding it all in so the whole thing wouldn't crack.
[Outro]
(sound of a distant siren, then phone clicks off)
...Anyway. Just wanted to tell you that.
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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