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How We Come Apart

from A Beautiful Sound by Cosy Sheridan

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    This is my pandemic songbook. These songs are the gift I received from the year of isolation and shut-down; with a couple of exceptions they were all written between March 2020 and April 2021. Most of these songs were recorded in our home; they sound like me and Charlie singing at our kitchen table.

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The original title was "Its Instructive How We Come Apart". This was written from a journal entry - a rant that I wrote in March or April 2020 when I truly had just spilled wine on the stairs and I had thrown out my back cleaning the closet (because I needed to feel I had gotten something done that day) and I had broken a dish in the kitchen. I was melting down.

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How We Come Apart

I don’t want to hear how you’re holding it together
I want to hear how you’re coming apart
not how you tell yourself to sit down and grow up
but how you hold your own broken heart

You break every dish in the kitchen
you spill your wine on the stairs
you threw out your back cleaning the closet
it’s going to hell do you care?


I want to know what you are packing
into the tiny bag in your dream
I’d like us to drink a little too much
agree it’s as bad as it seems

Some company here on the couch
I’ve been sitting here a lot
I don’t want to know how you’re coping
I want to know how you are not

How do we break and break
down to the smallest piece
the little particle where the psyche
finds release
the building block of the broken heart
it’s instructive how we come apart

I’m thinking of buying a tent
roughing it used to be something I know
the old woman saw this coming
she says it’s just how it has to go

I made a little madonna
out of modeling clay
I don’t give up all the time
just on alternate days

How do we break and break
down to the smallest part
the little piece where your personality starts
it’s instructive what we’re learning
how the house falls down when it’s burning


© Cosy Sheridan, Cosyng Music 2020

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from A Beautiful Sound, released August 16, 2021
Cosy Sheridan - guitar, vocals
Charlie Koch - bass
Susie Burke - vocals
David Surette - guitar

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Cosy Sheridan Harrisville, New Hampshire

Cosy Sheridan has been called “one of the era’s finest and most thoughtful songwriters.” Her CD "My Fence & My Neighbor" was in the Top 10 of 2018 on folk radio. "Pretty Bird" was listed among Sing Out Magazine’s Great CDs of 2014. “You can't make it into double digits, and continue touring for twenty or so years, unless you know what you're doing, and do it well,” - The Chicago Examiner. ... more

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