Name: Suns & Daughters (single)
Duration: P00H03M54S
Description: Demo of a song written for Dan's sister, Alison Drew Balletta, on her birthday.

Suns & Daughters (single)

by Methodist Hospital

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Demo of a song written for Dan's sister, Alison Drew Balletta, on her birthday.

lyrics

You are my sister
Married the man
With golden blisters
Instead of a tan

Burned to his shoulders
Tiny tattoos
Comet-pocked boulders
His love for you

Then one day in the Jersey suburbs, you would take
The best parts of you both
Golden hair crawling with little yellow snakes
Ten fingers and ten toes (with scales)

Your eight-year-old nose coated in zinc
But without that stuff, well, I do think
That you have the science-fiction strength
To send that Cayman sun toppling into the drink

Horsefly in the car
On the inside of the glass
You smacked it so hard
That the windshield cracked

And that tiny asterisk in the Ford Escort
Told me you'd be okay
It's a migration to Manhattan from New Port
To the spaniels of NJ

Your eight-year-old nose coated in zinc
But without that stuff, well, I do think
That you have the science-fiction strength
To send that Cayman sun toppling into the drink

Her two-year-old nose coated in zinc
But without that stuff, well, I do think
That she'd have the science-fiction strength
To dim that Barnegat sun with just one wink

credits

released July 15, 2016
Music by Dan Caffrey and Maxwell J Shults

Lyrics and album art by Dan Caffrey

Recorded and mixed by Maxwell J Shults at Hell's Half Acre Studio on July 14th, 2016

Dan Caffrey – vocals and bass

Maxwell J Shults – guitars and drums

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Methodist Hospital Chicago, Illinois

Dan Caffrey and Mae Shults are old friends from Chicago who have played music together in a variety of bands, including The Elizabeth Dane and a fight-themed cover band called The Lucky Shiners.

Dan lives in Brooklyn now, but they still make music together as Methodist Hospital. Whenever they play live (which has been only once), they're joined onstage by friends. ... more

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