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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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It started way down at the very bottom
Clung tight to the Earth and it's pull
And the water ran up, just enough
For us the sprout out and spread.

And yeah, I am the fruit of ages spent waiting
For the dirt to erupt or the sea to rise up
And now I've got nowhere
To rest my head.

Watch our bodies move away
Never taught just how to stay.
A curse we learned from far away
A curse we hope to shake one day.

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from Rest, released June 1, 2008

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