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Matterbloomlight (Revisited)

from American Bardo by Anders/O'Bitz

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The demo for "Matterbloomlight" was released in the fall of 2018.  It contains Mark's first attempt at recording the guitars and Eric's daughters singing the backing vocals.  Eric sent the demo to George Saunders himself, and Saunders found it to be "beautiful" and thanked Eric and Mark for making it.  

"Matterbloomlight (Revisited)" keeps Eric's original vocals but is utterly "revisited" by guitarist Mike Butler, the producer of American Bardo.  Mike played all the instruments for the produced version, and Heather Nation sang the backing vocals.

The song is about a ghost character Eric imagined in Saunders' bardo who couldn't say "matterlightblooming" correctly but, like the Reverend, knew that he and the other ghosts were all dead and that it didn't matter who said their word correctly.  

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Matterbloomlight
(©2018 Anders/O’Bitz)

Mr. Bevins does not like this matterbloomlight
We see this light when others say goodbye

Mr. Bevins does not call it the matterbloomlight
But how has it mattered for him
to say it right

We fear a long
Eternal night

Oh to matterbloomlight
I say it wrong
Bevins’s right

Oh can’t say goodbye
Stay too long
It ain’t right

Mr. Bevins says we cannot become this light
He may say this cuz he has too many eyes

Mr. Bevins seems to be blind to what is right
And this is why he will not say goodbye

He fears a long
Eternal night

Oh to matterbloomlight
I say it wrong
Bevins’s right

Oh can’t say goodbye
We’ve stayed too long
It ain’t right

Ooh, oh … oh, oh

Oh to matterbloomlight
I say it wrong
But see it right

Oh please say goodbye
Our time is done
No more lies

Oh to matterbloomlight
I help him along
We get it right

Oh we say goodbye
Our time is done
Come alive
To matterbloomlight

credits

from American Bardo, released July 31, 2020
Eric Anders - Vocals
Heather Nation - Backing Vocals
Mike Butler - All instruments

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Anders/O'Bitz California

Singer-songwriter Eric Anders (right) and guitarist-composer Mark O'Bitz (left) both hail from California. Eric and Mark have been working on music together since Eric's 2003 debut release, Not At One--like all of Eric's solo releases it was mostly Anders/O'Bitz. The guys started releasing music as a duo in 2018 with Of All These Things and have released at least an album every year after that. ... more

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