Name: Green Field
Duration: P00H04M39S
Description: The character in this song is in a dead-end office job, staring at the clock to see if they can see the minute hand moving or not. They can. And they are daydreaming about living in a painting, somewhere, anywhere rather than at work.

Green Field

from Expandable by Dave Ihmels

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The character in this song is in a dead-end office job, staring at the clock to see if they can see the minute hand moving or not. They can. And they are daydreaming about living in a painting, somewhere, anywhere rather than at work.

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When the hand’s moving
Sort into spaces
Segment sunlight
To disguise the structure

Digits and daytime
Believe my lying
Letting my smiling
Lead us to water

If you could tell me
Would you have me over?
To stand while you’re watching
To speak without talking

We’re living like a painter
Loving your pastels
We’re in your green field
Just charcoal dreamin’

La la la la la
La la la la la
We’re in your green field

Which way your wrists go
That way ebb and flow
Brushing me aside
Swept in the high tide

And if you could tell us
Or have us on over,
And if anyone’s watching
Could you tell them we live here?

La la la la la
La la la la la
We’re in your green field

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from Expandable, released April 8, 2008

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Dave Ihmels Washington, D.C.

I am a performing singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. I write expansive, often experimental, folk-rock music featuring idiosyncratic characters and sonic goodies. I like to put a sparkle around the mundane.

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