Shutter Finger

from The Harvest Month by Meridian

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A song for a friend that I don't see enough. We happened to meet up in Chicago in the pouring rain at a huge music festival. Finding the one person you know in a crowd of 20,000 is a damn good feeling.

The subject of this song tours quite a bit and our communications aren't always as frequent as I'd like, so I wrote this song to let them know that I'm grateful for their friendship and any conversations we might have.

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Find me in Humboldt Park, dressed in a trash bag I bought on the street from a seven-year-old girl and her father selling comfort to the festival-goers. And as I searched for you in shoes soaked through, I wondered what I wouldn't have been able to do without your voice and your willingness to relate from any one of the lower 48.

Find you in the driver's seat with a wry half-smile tattooed on your teeth. I don't know how you live this way but you seem alright and I wanted to say that I'm proud it's you I know. Eyes on the highway. Queen of the road. So make me a frame that sticks every time that your shutter finger clicks.

You might be gone for now, but you're not gone for good. Let wet Chicago ground swallow you where you stood. And when it engulfs you, you will return renewed. I know some way we will remain connected still.

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from The Harvest Month, released October 1, 2013

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Meridian Cleveland, Ohio

Jake, Max, Steve, Tim and Rozco. five nice midwesterners that play tunes for you.

currently spread across Cleveland, Pittsburgh and Philadelphia. occasionally reconvening to make music, drink whiskey and play pinball.

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