Stay Here With Me

from One Way by Danny Ross

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This is my favorite song on the record. My original intention was to write something in the vein of Beck's "Sea Change." That is, simultaneously dark and heart-achingly beautiful. This is also a good example of the muse working, because lines like "How can we beckon the past/ And savor things we know that won't last" - words I could never come up with on my own (I had to look up beckon in the dictionary) - found their way through my lips.

We really wanted to capture the fragility and dynamics of the song on the recording, we even thought of not recording to a click track, but the strings really did a great job of that. In fact, toward the end we have two sets of quartets playing to build the tension. I was also afraid that putting pedal steel and strings together would conflict (they both have that weeping sound) but they sound great! Lastly, hope you enjoy the outro - that's my ode to Brian Wilson's "Smile."

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If you could wait for me
Until after the winter
These night skies will fade into day

But our smiles wait
Away in a picture
It leaves me with nothing to say
But stay

Stay here with me, no

If you could wait for me
We'll share an apartment
And sleep through the afternoon

Revisiting laughs
In these phone conversations
So the light by the window can loom
In this empty room

How can we beckon the past?
And savor things we know that won't last
The moment's too fast

Stay here with me
Please don't go
Stay here with me, no

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from One Way, released February 1, 2010

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Danny Ross Brooklyn, New York

Melding vintage rhythm and blues, immaculate arrangements, and energetic, sweat-drenched live performances, Danny Ross builds a sound that's completely his own in NYC. Like some refreshing hybrid of McCartney's sophisticated 60s pop, Springsteen's American rock n roll, Gram Parsons' alt-country twang, and Sam Cooke Live at the Harlem Square Club. ... more

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