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My Father's Brother

from BloodMoon by Scott Gagner

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My father’s brother saved my life when I was two / When he dove in and scooped me up off the bottom of the pool / It was 1977 / He followed his heart out west / Settling on Telegraph Hill where the views are the best / Tales of the City and of Hollywood too / There was nothing that my father’s brother didn’t do / From Elizabeth Taylor to Roddy McDowall / He was universally adored / Sharing a Lucky Strike with Harrison Ford / “The Power of Myth” / Poppers & Benzedrine / Being outed in the pages of Newsweek magazine / My father’s brother’s father called him out of the blue / Said, “If you were here right now, I’d probably kill you / I’m going to hang up now, so don’t you get upset / Before I say something I’ll live to regret” / It was 1999 / When my father got a call / Said, “You better hurry up / Your brother’s not responding at all” / Redeye to Tucson / Nothing much was said / When we arrived my father’s brother had a tube running out of his head / 200mg of Morphine to try to keep things short / And still he fought for 14 hours without life support / Now, I know as well as the next guy that you can’t bring back the dead / But his flatline jumped when I kissed my father’s brother on the forehead / In the recurring dream I’m always diving off a cliff / Into the lake where I know my father’s brother lives / We circle over each other like we did way back when / Happy to be united once again / But I know eventually I will leave you there / Because sooner or later I have to go up for air / Now I am a father’s brother living out on the coast / And it isn’t lost on me that I followed a ghost / It took 20 years for this song to be sung / And I am old enough now to know you died too young / So now whenever I swim / If the sun is just right / I can see my father’s brother swim into the light

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from BloodMoon, released November 2, 2021

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Scott Gagner Minneapolis, Minnesota

Scott Gagner is a Minnesota-based songwriter, singer, and multi-instrumentalist. He has collaborated with members of Elvis Costello & The Attractions, Big Star, The Posies, R.E.M., Los Lobos, and Midlake. His 2019 album "Hummingbird Heart" was voted "Best of the Year" by Power Pop News. His songs have been featured nationally on such platforms as USA Today. Reverse is his sixth album. ... more

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