EDDIE BERMAN - JOANN [Live Acoustic Video]

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"Joann" appears on the album "Before The Bride" out on Nettwerk Records in 2017. BUY/STREAM "Joann" Now: http://smarturl.it/ebjoann

A year ago this week I married an incredible woman named Joanna. I wrote this song for her, which will be on the new album I recorded with my band last month. And though she gets mildly annoyed at the multitudes of people who constantly mistake her name for 'Joanne', the three-syllable “Joanna” just didn’t work in the song. So glass half full: I wrote a song for my wife; glass half empty: I didn’t get her name right…

Either way, it’s mostly a song about having kids, or not having kids, or wanting kids or not wanting them. This live solo video was recently shot by JP Lavin in a small, sweltering Los Angeles hallway. I hope you enjoy it.

EB

Lyrics:

It's hard to tell which way you're going
When that salty shadow's cast across the sun
In the brine of Venice shallows
Where the twisting of our roots have come undone

Maybe our hearts lie over the ocean
Maybe we never should’ve stepped out of this wreck
I’d kill to stand at two roads diverging
Instead of here where fifty thousand intersect

And if I'm restless
Like the gulf of Siam
Won't you hold me
Like the wolf that I am
And when I'm hard up
Just shackle my feet
And throw the keys in the street, JoAnn

I wish that I could know just how you’re feeling
Beyond the way a farmer know his field
But I’ll proudly bow to your condition
Better still, I will bear witness to your yield

Someday we will lay in Okinawa
Or that island off the coast of Greece
And we’ll live to be a hundred
Unconcerned with silver apples or Golden Fleece

And if I'm restless
Like the gulf of Siam
Won't you hold me
Like the wolf that I am
And when I'm hard up
Just shackle my feet
And throw the keys in the street
JoAnn

If our new civilization
Our tributary, aching for the sea
If it dies off trying to get there
Well I think that’d still be good enough for me


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Directed & Edited by JP Lavin
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