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alu'a

from Rest by Try The Pie

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    "Alu'a" is the Tongan word for goodbye when you are staying and the other person is going. "Rest" is an album dedicated to this sentiment. I wrote the songs over a duration of three years (2005-2008) and recorded it in the last year by myself in my room in San Francisco. Sometimes you can hear someone doing dishes or the beep of a dying smoke-detector. This album is an example of the slow, whispering tempo, slanted harmonies and embellished metaphors that I grew up listening to.

    These recordings would have never been possible be it not for the help and generosity of my friends who lived in that house on Thomas Ave. (Jay, Sandra, Sylvia, Erika, Skip, Mander).

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as big as a whale i watched you float out to sea
and as you got farther, you got harder to see.
was it tectonics that rumbled beneath?
built you volcanoes for your big eyes to see?
what it the ocean or maybe the clouds
that made you think bigger and leave me without?

until finally you were gone for good.

with a heart as big as a car fit for four
i'll miss all the action that i don't see anymore
eyes as big as my hands
and your fins as tough as the land that you came from
and left from, to never see again.

as big as your tail that swam on it's own
pushed me to shore one day and left me alone

until finally you were gone for good.

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from Rest, released June 1, 2008

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