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Redemption
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Written: circa 1998 Recorded: June 24, 2000 Mastered: July, 2006 Unreleased
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Conceived and reared in New York, domesticated in Southern California. Physician, musician, husband, father and generalized procrastinator, not necessarily in t
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Acoustic • Acoustic General
Author
Michael Novick
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August 05, 2006
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MP3 2.3 MB • 128 kbps • 2:28
Story behind the song
I love the church on the corner of 76th Street and Lexington Avenue, and I used to walk by it often when I lived on 77th. Manny’s Fresh Fruit Stand is an invention, but I pondered the ironies of this song in that neck of the woods shortly after I moved to Manhattan in 1997. Redemption was a poem first, later twisted into this song. This recording is the only one I made. The church is actually St. Jean Baptiste.
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saint jean's episcopal stand freshly sandblasted on 76th and lexington by manny's fresh fruit stand rising arrogantly skyward with a sleek and regal body turning nickel charlie's castle into shadowland on my way to the cathedral i see nothing but glory lost in parenthetic shades of the pathetic with a foul fedora crown and a milk-crate throne he greets me with a bow and a muddy waters tune but i'm too absorbed to see him on my way to the cathedral i see nothing but glory on my way to the cathedral i see nothing but glory
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