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Jason Rubero: Music

Song To The City (1998)

(Jason Rubero)
October 30, 1998

Written in my head during a backpacking trip.  Surrounded by nature, walking 12 miles on the way out to the car on our last day, the words and melody came to my mind and I repeated them over and over for a few hours until they became ingrained within me.

Shades of CSNY and REM here.  Hell yeah.

Love the words.  They wrote me.  I didn't write them.

I think the ending movement is groovy.  I particularly like the shakers, the 'stop', and the guitar parts (especially the solo)...


And what the heck is that ending chord?????  Where did that come from?????  Still don't know.


This is one of my very favorite songs in my body of work. I never get tired of hearing this one for some reason...
I'm crossing over to the green world
Every footstep leaving you behind
Your steel and concrete leave me cold
Your frantic world, ruled with lines

And I'm free now
Unencumbered by your weight
I have slumbered as of late

But I wake and I find
That I've found peace of mind
In the green world
In the green world

Dappled in sunlight filtered through the trees
I press on, with difficult ease
And God's handiwork all around
Speaks volumes without making a sound

And I'm free now
Unencumbered by your weight
I have slumbered as of late

In the green world
Green world

Bring it on, I'm ready
To immerse and emerge
Your gravity is so heavy
But I deflect and then I surge

Into the green world
Into the green world
Into the green

My watch is broken
I lose touch
As I grasp the green world
I need this place so very much
The leaves and trees I fall down on my knees
In the green world

Bring it on
I'm ready
To immerse and emerge...