From the recording Heirlooms
He didn’t mind how he looked to other people, because the nursery magic had made him Real, and when you are Real shabbiness doesn’t matter. - Margery Williams, The Velveteen Rabbit
“I love you more than you’ll ever know. I wish I could be everywhere with you.” - Bruce Kerr - Jodiette: My Lovely Wife
Liv: voice, mission organ, accordion, piano, prepared piano, bowed glockenspiel, saw, omnichord, hammond b3
Braden: voice, prepared piano, acoustic and nashville guitars
Peter Klaassen: upright bass
Mark Mariash: drums
Jillian Sauerteig: cello
Adrian Irvine: violin
Peter Klaassen: arco bass
Katie Clark: trumpet
Anita Cazzola: voice, banjo
Sam Boer: voice, snare
James Paul: prepared piano
Lyrics
There’s a tree
Not too far from home
Waving leaves like it knows me
There’s a voice
I hear when I’m alone
Whispers to the seasons
There was touch
Knots along your spine
Packing bags at your bedside
Will you still love me
When my velvet’s gone?
Am I still worthy
When my thread is torn?
Will you still love me
Now there’s a hole we cannot mend?
Until then
Until then
There was hope
Treatment traded time
Folded hands defiant
There’s a phrase
I wish that I could say:
“I wish that you could stay
Alive in every way”
Please,
I wish that you could stay
I wish that you could stay
I wish that you could stay
Will you still love me
When my velvet’s gone?
Am I still worthy
When my thread is torn?
Will you still love me
Now there’s a hole we cannot mend?
Until then
Until then
There’s a tree
Not too far from home
Waving leaves, it knows me