Name: Over the Big Pond
Duration: P00H05M00S
Description: My daughter was working on a science project, which was about clouds. She asked me if I had a favorite cloud. I thought about it, and answered "cirrus". Later that night I penned this tune. Two humans are debating what the clouds know about, and the clouds sing back to them at the end. They know.

Over the Big Pond

from Expandable by Dave Ihmels

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My daughter was working on a science project, which was about clouds. She asked me if I had a favorite cloud. I thought about it, and answered "cirrus". Later that night I penned this tune. Two humans are debating what the clouds know about, and the clouds sing back to them at the end. They know.

lyrics

I want to send a message
High into the air
To the contrails and the cirrus clouds
Stretching in a frozen stare
The filaments in the blue lights
Powering the sky
Supercooling crystals
Super cool

I don’t know if they make us warm
I don’t know if they make us cold
Do we really ever know a thing when we decide?
I don’t care if we want them
I don’t think that they need us
I do wonder though if they know about the trouble we’re in

Ship tracks in the air over the big pond

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from Expandable, released April 8, 2008
Steven Putt does a great job of production on this one.

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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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