Name: If I Had a Cameraman
Duration: P00H04M24S
Description: Started as a poem and became this song. If this, then that structure.

If I Had a Cameraman

from Late for the War by Albert Rouzie

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Started as a poem and became this song. If this, then that structure.

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If I Had a Cameraman

If I had a cameraman I could play back the changes in my life
Edit all the unpleasant scenes, record the flares of falling leaves
If I had a cameraman.

If I had a sound man, I could play the song in another key
Blend in new harmony with the timbre of the trees
If I had a sound man.

If I had a geisha girl, she could walk all along my back,
Sprawl on her tatami mat, fill up the spaces of my lack,
If I had a geisha girl.

Birds cry, bees buzz and drone, crickets zip and leap
Through ambient fields of our poignant song.

If I had an intermission and something sweet to eat,
Some time to think about the ending of everything,
If I had the time.

If you were to agree to be my camera, sound and geisha girl
We might create a different world, reshoot the final scenes,
If you were to agree.

Birds cry, bees buzz and drone, crickets zip and leap
Through ambient fields of our poignant song.

If I had the joy to burn a rocket booster to the sun,
Returning with the northern lights, shine on the world to come,
If I had the joy to burn. If I had the joy to burn.

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from Late for the War, released January 12, 2023
Albert Rouzie: vocals, guitar, and electric bass

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Albert Rouzie Athens, Ohio

I have lived in New Orleans, piedmont North Carolina, Portland, Oregon, Austin, Texas, and Athens, Ohio, all places that have influenced my songwriting, a fusion of blues, folk, rock, and country cooked down to my own Americana gumbo. Songs range from offbeat fantasy to focused realism and love songs somewhere in between. I have three albums out, and one, Late for the War, due out in Jan. 2023. ... more

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