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Across the Room

from Eudaimonia by Left-Handed 2nd Baseman

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Fran Broderick - guitar; vocals; tambourine
Dan Carter - Bass
Greg Detwiler - Drums
Shane Kelsen - Piano; Organ
Meghan Lijewski and Brendan Simms - Claps

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(Broderick)

Standing at the craps table throwin frozen dice/ mingling with debutantes and social types/ beneath the long pale glare of the smoky lights/ but every time he tried to walk away or stand off/ that’s when they would say let the man talk/ he couldn’t breathe and he felt like a greeter/ theyd say Id like you to meet him and id like you to meet her/ they were all wearing the same vapid demeanor/ laughing bout the future sayin who’ll need us?/ and he’d laugh even though it aint funny/ they say when you gonna settle down and make some money/ find a nice girl pretty and well studied/ he said one day I’m gonna find my honey/ but I’m a night man like I’m always Sunny/ and these birds don’t phase me they call me Sully

But then she walked across the room/ trailed by the afternoon/ he thought he’d gone crazy
Maybe it’s the way he was catchin his breath/ or the way her body moved through the hem of her dress, he’d found his baby


Stolen glances slow romancing a whole lotta talking but there aint no dancing/ her life had been planned in Manhattan mansions/ winters in Aspen, summer in the Hamptons/ but he was from the backstreets/ out beyond the taxis/ looking at a Daisy but feeling like a Gatsby/ he said ill be honest/ I don’t gotta a lotta dollars/ but I promise that for you my shoes will always be polished/ And Yea I went to college but I aint graduate with honors/ id just skip class kick back and chill in my pajamas/ but she talked of tel aviv and renewable energy/ and how she’d played the piano that paul used on let it be/ looked kinda like a young Jackie kennedy/ the type of face that just stay embedded in your memory/ said she’d studied abroad and helped refugees/ said shed studied law but that music was her specialty

shed say how can you not care/ hed say because lifes not fair/
shed say get off your high horse/ hed say get off your high chair

She took a deep breath and batted her eyelash/ looked away quickly to hide her shy laugh/ suddenly he felt like he was back on the right path/ like listening to a verse back like 'damn did I write that?'/wondered he wrote her if she would write back/ that loving feeling started hitting him like a spiked bat/ just like that his jaw and the beat dropped/ it was like he could see God up in a tree top/ writing a classic yea her lyrics were Reeboks/ and the honey in her voice was always hitting the sweet spot/ til the late night arguments and holes in the sheetrock/ the liquor and the pills and the drives and the bebop/ lights flicker while he'd whisper to rye liquor/ about the old times how he wished he could die quicker/ because the way things end aint the way they begin/ people are people and people don't make sense


But then she walked across the room/ trailed by the afternoon/ he thought he’d gone crazy
Maybe it’s the way he was catchin his breath/ or the way her body moved through the hem of her dress, he’d found his baby

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from Eudaimonia, released February 3, 2015

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Left-Handed 2nd Baseman Rochester, New York

LH2B is the creation of singer/songwriter/producer Fran Broderick. Fusing diverse influences ranging from folk to soul to synthpop, the result is stirring anthems and tender ballads, anchored by Broderick’s captivating lyrics. Band: FB (vox, rhythm and lead guitars), Zak Mendoza (Drums), Dan Carter (Bass), Shane Kelsen (keys), Ben Rossi (rhythm gtr, synth), Brendan Simms (trombone, back vox) ... more

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