Sisters by Joel David Weir

Two songs for two sisters. The songs are sisters in that they were written in the same songwriting arc/sessions. These are the elemental versions of two songs that will likely appear in another form on a later release. They might have waited but my wife Maria asked me to write a song for her sister Lydia for her birthday this year. I gladly took the challenge - especially because Lydia is among the coolest people I know and, as an ICU nurse during a pandemic can use every 'hey you're amazing! hey we love you!' that can be given. The Abyss is for Lydia... I mean.. the song is, not the actual Abyss.. no one needs to live there.

The other song, City Care Forgot, is a Valentine's Day gift to my love, Maria. We love talking about our bouts with wanderlust, and love of sacred/haunted places and how our shared vocations and ways we feel and think about things and places are so wrapped up in our over a quarter century together. CCF is one of those 'hey dear lets get out of this town and start over somewhere else' hopeless romantic songs.. but.. cause i'm who i am, Maria is who she is, its rooted in some sorrow and ferocious fidelity - to each other and to place.

So - Happy Birthday Lydia! Happy Valentines Day Maria! Two sisters, two of my most favorite peoples. Two songs I hope at least help a little.

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