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Santa Cruz

from Mark's Yard by Secret Emchy Society

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In 2015 I was on tour with my band Feral and playing some shows with Carolyn Mark in Santa Cruz. When we stayed nearby and drank ALL of the wine that our winemaker pal Nic Calder had brought with him we all got into some … passionate conversations. The next night we played in Sonoma and the first rain in five years hit Northern California and I ran outside to D’mitra & Pascal’s back porch and did a voice recording of this song. That show up in Sonoma was actually the first time I performed solo - and this song would be the last song that Feral wrote together before we disbanded and I officially formed the Secret Emchy Society.

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Santa Cruz

Just played a show in Santa Cruz and
you know you should call me
cuz it’s finally raining and the night
it’s all empty
I know we drank a lot and there’s no more wine
I know we sang those songs and I’m
feelin fine
I’m totally fine

It’s at night in Santa Cruz and
you know you should call me
cuz you’ve moved out there to where
no one can ever find you
they can’t find you
Your punk rock friends say Emch
“hey how’s he doing”
Your punk rock friends you know
once they were mine too
they were mine too

(bridge)
They call me up to ask me
how you are
all I can tell em is you got a kid
and you run a bar

I’m in the rain in Santa Cruz and
you know you should call me
cuz this was the tour we always dreamed
we’d be doing… so why aren’t you doing it?
I’ll take some pictures and I’ll send em on my phone
in such a crowd I never felt
more alone

Just played a show in Santa Cruz
Drank all the wine in Santa Cruz
I’m in the rain in Santa Cruz
and you know you should call me

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from Mark's Yard, released November 14, 2018
written by Feral

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"One could describe Emch as if Nick Cave had grown up in Bakersfield with a dynamic swagger that could part the Red Sea." - NoDepression

The Secret Emchy Society plays foot stompin' heart breakin' California country tunes for gay cowboys, queer witches, and all kinds of cowfolks.
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