Steve Chab's Music

Lamby by Steve Chab

Before the arborist came,

two walnut trees blocked my view of the city.

Fruit pummeled the aluminum roof.

From dusk to dawn, it woke me with a thunderous drum.

They blackened my hands and knees; the yard was packed.

Picking rotten walnuts off the hill in the back.

The wretched fruit I never ate.

I smelled the ground and cursed them as we wasted away together.

For 40 years I scorned the trees,

but the highway now drowns me in clarity.

My sleepy friend stains and haunts I-70

where voices of screaming trucks heckle me.

Ezra and me in a breakdown with guitars muted.

Lyrics based on Act 5 of A Midsummer Night's Dream:

Lovers speak strange

From such seething brains

I will not believe

In contrived fantasy

Poet’s eye a fine frenzy

Rolls from heaven to Earth

Lovers, poets, and madmen

apprehend

More than cool reason

Could comprehend

Maniac's devils

More than hell can close

Lover sees beauty

In the slaves of Pharaoh

Poet’s eye a fine frenzy

Rolls from heaven to Earth

Seething brain bodies forth

Joy and freights devine

A staff is a snake

A shrub is a snare

I resurrected some songs that Matt Susko and I created together back in 2010 and compiled them into an album. All 11 songs were written and recorded within 48 hours. They're terribly ridiculous and ridiculously terrible! This particular track is dedicated to spicy things. Download the whole album: https://yummy-eggs.bandcamp.com/

Guitars and beats by Steve Chab. Art by Matt Susko.

Art by Matt Susko.

Someday, I'll add vocals and mix it better.

Someday, I'll add vocals and mix it better.

"Will Believe" is to be played simultaneously with Nils Frahm's "Some." Listen to Nils Frahm and Steve Chab synchronized at stevechab.com/nils.