Nick Hakim, Roy Nathanson - All the Things You Are (Reimagined)(2021)

[00:47.67] All the things you are aren't enough to forestall
[00:51.50] The crashing financial headaches
[00:53.68] Or late night battles over unused toothbrushes
[00:56.99] Unmunched lunches, lights not shut, surfaces not swept
[01:01.64] Or the existential morass surrounding the kid's sagging pants
[01:07.11] Even your "promised touch of springtime" can't protect us
[01:11.12] From the terrible job Leo did on the roof
[01:13.50] That caused the flood next to the garbage cans
[01:16.32] Which culminated in the tragic call to the roofer
[01:19.03] Who really and truly fell
[01:21.50] I wonder if I ever told you there was a time
[01:23.44] When ripping through the chord changes
[01:25.76] Of this old song afforded a guy a place of honor
[01:28.40] Among young jazzers
[01:29.72] How back then, Sam
[01:30.92] Furnace was my go-to pilot sitting next to me at the Henry Street
[01:35.65] Big band alto strapped to his side all the things
[01:39.13] He was achingly elegant, quiet, focused a study in fire
[01:44.06] Who could imagine that one day
[01:45.80] We'd attach those headphones to his fragile bluegrey
[01:49.39] Head five short months after the bad news
[01:52.95] Mobley, Griffin and Coltrane singing him
[01:55.48] Into the "breathless hush of evening from their golden bells
[01:59.50] Truth is, "Things" change
[02:02.55] And the song was never a favorite
[02:04.55] Just another river to flop around in
[02:06.44] Another impossible lawn made greener
[02:08.65] By someone else's eight notes
[02:11.54] Today when we were cooking oatmeal
[02:13.08] I heard Sonny Criss drive his Selmer
[02:15.74] Through the "Angel glow that lights a star" line
[02:19.32] And I marveled at the metaphorical power of stars
[02:22.68] How they rise above the bridges of all these old tunes
[02:26.23] Even glistening above our most tragic roofs
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[02:35.52] And I wondered what star big Sam ended up on
[02:39.34] And whether or not he stuck with the Lamberson mouthpiece
[02:42.86] Or switched back to the Selmer C Star
[02:46.07] Opting for a slightly thinner line
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[03:09.90] To thread a breathless heaven
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