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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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go on and magnify
your dreams for us aren't dignified
and our hearts could never think up why
you let the great thing pass us by

hold tight to steady rail bends
there's no going back again

from anthill to atmosphere
our bodies are all pulled down here
and the horizon is quiet and clear
a good goal for when we lose our ears

you wont sit to worry about
who's in those passing windows

crawling across whole continents and oceans
i've learned to just give it all up
and if it means never really arriving then well,
we'll have to deal with that luck

cause we've know oceans, we've known lands
we know it's work done with our own hands
though your documents say differently.
we are men but more like trains
though you cannot pronounce our names
sturdy arms for our posterity.

we can't go back to a home we only half-left
we can't return with our languages unlearned.

hold tight to steady rail bends
there's no going back again.

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from Rest, released June 1, 2008

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