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Roundtable

from Val Holler Band - EP by Val Holler

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Standard tuning. This was written in the spring of 1995 while Val was staying on Flatbush Ave. in Brooklyn, NY just across the Manhattan Bridge, and is an homage to the people who inspired him as an artist. Jimi Hendrix's final performance in 1970 is the person spoken about "at the Isle of Wight."

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"Roundtable"
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VERSE
In the midst of learning to walk,
I have stumbled across your message of flight.
Your lesson in soul on the Isle of Wight.
The poet has agreed to submit for the record,
a vision of technique inspired.
Dreams can be learned but the essence is wired.
Under prismatic hues and billows of smoke,
I've inhaled and exhaled listening close through the night:
A fish-eyed lens lying prone in delight.

CHORUS
MAY I SIT AT YOUR TABLE, TONIGHT?

VERSE
In the midst of a suburban fog,
I have stumbled across a pawn-shop guitar.
My family and friends want a larger car.
The poet has agreed to slow it, know it,
Speed it up, slow it down, get it right.
A softly spoken stick o dynamite.
Underwater sunlight and music concrete,
Signs and saws and pulses arranged,
The master tricks himself into feeling deranged.

CHORUS
MAY I SIT AT YOUR ROUNDTABLE?
WE SIT AROUND THE TABLE.

BRIDGE/SOLO

OUTRO In the mess of a sunken, sullen, smoky downtown room...

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from Val Holler Band - EP, released September 2, 1997

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Val Holler Nashville, Tennessee

Val Holler is a singer-songwriter who has performed and released music mainly from the mid-1990s to mid-2000s, while based primarily in New York City, Los Angeles and Berlin, Germany.

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c/o The Orchard/Sony
23 E. 4th St., 3rd Fl
New York, NY 10003
tel: (+1) 646-504-4958
booking (-at-) lightstone.us
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