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Every Little Progress

by maxwell stern

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This song was written & performed for a Creative Mornings - Cleveland lecture in early 2016. creativemornings.com/cities/cle. I have my friend Thomas Fox to thank for that opportunity.

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see my signs of life:
fake marble kitchen counter
unpaid bills and forms half-filled out
flattened folds against an edge
set 'em down & go to work
add it to the list of "shit to worry about"

and it's growing
stacking up like weddings and promotions
i'm just trying to get a little closer
to something half-resembling a graceful closure
but i'm grappling
with each and every opposite reaction
less rules and more suggestions of attraction
and all that i can think to do is laugh when it seems appropriate

so thanks for the ride
seems like you're doing better since i saw you last
no, here is fine
i lost my keys so i'm gonna walk around to the back door
and hope that someone's home
fucking off, trying to kill more time on my phone

but there's this, too:
usually it's pretty good to see you
except for maybe once or twice a blue moon
when i don't have the stamina to sort through half-truths
but i know this:
every little progress is a process
and i'd like to think we've got a little time left
to sort out all the magic from the mess
so i'll see you at the holidays

every little progress
is part of a bigger process
and all circumstance & context
is just there to keep ya honest
so i'll see you at the holidays.

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released August 29, 2016
Max Stern - guitar, banjo, piano, vocals, stressin'

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maxwell stern Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Hailing from the post-industrial shores of Cleveland, OH, Maxwell Stern has been writing music and touring since the early 2000s. He has released a slew of LPs and 7"s, and has played shows pretty much everywhere including an abandoned restaurant in Wyoming, a mall in China, several squats in Germany and a pretty nice bookstore in Australia. He is definitely not the person writing this. ... more

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