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Bottom of the Driveway

by EVERFINER

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This is a song that was developed between 2020 and 2022. Lyrically it begins with a personification of pandemic life kidnapping you while your "real" life wondering where you've gone. This notion is then overlapped with the idea of family as something that changes as well and, like pandemic life, can end up looking relatively unrecognizable. //

lyrics

BOTTOM OF THE DRIVEWAY
G |C |G |Am | |
C
I didn’t mean to barge in on you
I was invited
C/B
Wrong door, wrong floor
well i cant deny it
F
Can’t be my life
You look unfamiliar
F9
Don’t mind me
G
I’ll take my leave

Am
What’s that you say
door has locked behind me
C/B
Be on my way [want me to stay]
Why should you deny me [i’ve got places to be]
F
This cant be real
Now i’m getting queasy
F9
My real life

G
Must miss me by now

G C/A F
I know we can never go home
G C/A F
But i find myself driving there anyway
G C/A F
I call you on the phone from the bottom of the driveway
G C/A F
I call you on the phone from the bottom of the driveway
from the bottom

G Am F
All five of us pile in the van
G Am F
Destination’s dull but the company is grand
G
I took it for granted
Am F
You took it for granted
G
I took us for granted
Am F
We took it for granted

V2
Was in a rush to
C
grow up, move out
Craving independence
C/B
my way no doubt
It would tremendous
F
Get my own place
Wake up in the morning
F9 G
Best get used to my own voice

Am
Home for a spell
It’s no huge endeavor
G
Can’t even tell
It wont be forever
F
Burning so bright
Real good while it lasted
F9 G
Who knew family could have a shelf life
[Who knew my family had a shelf life]
[Who knew a family had a shelf life]

[CH]
G C/A F
I know we can never go home
G C/A F
But i find myself driving there anyway
G C/A F
I call you on the phone from the bottom of the driveway
G C/A F
I call you on the phone from the bottom of the driveway
from the bottom

G Am F
All five of us pile in the van
G Am F
Destination’s dull but the company is grand
G
I took it for granted
Am F
You took it for granted
G
I took us for granted
Am F
We took it for granted

G
I took it for granted
Am F
You took it for granted
G
I took us for granted
Am F
We took it for granted

[CH]
mf
G Am F
All five of us pile in the van
G Am F
Destination’s dull but the company is grand
Mp no vox
G
I took it for granted
Am F
You took it for granted

credits

released May 13, 2022
Julie DiOrio - vocals, guitar, ukulele, rhodes, synth
Lizzie Greenwald - vocals
Savannah Marshall - drums, percussion, vocal harmonies
Alexa Stamison - bass guitar
Austin Arroco - trombone

Words and music written by Julie DiOrio
Recorded by Alex Allinson at The Bridge Sound and Stage, Cambridge MA
Mastered by Brian Redmond

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EVERFINER Boston, Massachusetts

EVERFINER = shimmer funk with a folk flare and more harmonies than you can shake a stick at.

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