A Swan Song (Just a Pleasant Goodbye)

from Bootlegs I: Songs for Toddlers on the Human Condition by Jonah Rank

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Written in the winter of 2002-2003. Recorded around that same time. I can't believe that I'm half-decently playing violin on this. Especially because I thought that I was playing viola only at this point. So, who knows if it's a violin or viola?

I never did much with this song after recording it.

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Hello, we meet to depart.
Here’s another message that won’t reach your heart.
I guess that this meeting is just a souvenir
Since I’m otherwise unsure about what we’re doing here.

I just want to say a pleasant goodbye.
If we don’t speak again, then have a nice life.
It seems you uninvited salutations.
On account of these vocations, goodbye.

It’s the end of the conversation.
There’s nothing left to say.
It doesn’t need to end with frustration.
But you make it seem as though there’s no other way.

I just want to say a pleasant goodbye.
If we don’t speak again, then have a nice life.
It seems you uninvited salutations.
On account of these vocations, goodbye.

It’s the end of the conversation.
There’s nothing left to say.
It doesn’t need to end with frustration.
But you make it seem as though there’s no other way.

I just want to say a pleasant goodbye.
If we don’t speak again, then have a nice life.
It seems you uninvited salutations.
On account of these vocations, goodbye.

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from Bootlegs I: Songs for Toddlers on the Human Condition, released November 15, 2011

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