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When Somebody's Gone

from Body of Work (2023) by Carsie Blanton

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WHEN SOMEBODY’S GONE (2021)
Deep in lockdown, I sat outside on the first warm day and wrote this: for my Gramma Gloria, and her daughters, and for everybody who’s lost somebody in this long sad time. There are a lot of us, waking up early and tending our plants.

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You wake up in the early morning
Pour yourself a cup of something sweet
Then you go out in the air and
See what’s growin in the early summer heat
Somewhere a broken record’s playin
Memories like half-forgotten songs
When somebody’s gone

You pack up all the books and papers
Photographs and stories that you know
You stack up all the boxes and you sweep the floor
And then it’s time to go
Take all the things they saved and treasured
Put em in a pile on the lawn
When somebody’s gone

They say your heart won’t always hurt
But they don’t say how long
Ain’t it strange the body turns to dirt
But love goes on and on
When somebody’s gone

Every day the sun goes down
and something comes to serve as a reminder
Of all the things you coulda said and done
If you were just a little kinder
It’s plain to see that kindness
Was the only thing that mattered all along
when somebody’s gone

They say your heart won’t always hurt
But they don’t say how long
Ain’t it strange the body turns to dirt
But love goes on and on
When somebody’s gone

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from Body of Work (2023), track released June 17, 2022
Written by Carsie Blanton. Featuring Carsie on vocals and most guitars. Joe Plowman on bass and background vocals. Tyler Chester on everything else.

Produced and mixed by Tyler Chester, Engineered by Mauro Castro, Additional Engineering by Mario Ramierz. Mastered by Eric Boulanger at The Bakery. Recorded at Sonic Ranch. Art by Madalyn Stefanak.

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Carsie Blanton Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Carsie Blanton writes anthems for a world worth saving. Whether alone with her electric guitar or fronting her four-piece “handsome band”, Carsie delivers every song with an equal dose of moxie and mischief, bringing her audience together in joyful celebration of everything worth fighting for. ... more

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