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The Dream is to Dream

by Henning Ohlenbusch

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    Henning's new solo album is a dreamy journey into life over the past few years. Disillusionment in the way the world works and with those around us leading to questions about what is important, what is worth keeping, how do we live? A celebration of the natural world, the consistency of the seasons, those moments and people that we hold dear. This is wandering music, three instrumental dreams anchor the rest of the songs which float atop howling and sliding lap steel guitar. The songs are their own people but the album is the family. Meet one at a time or dive into all of them at once. It's not a movie, but it's almost a movie. There's an arc. A beginning and an end. We start off questioning where we are going and we end up where we started. At home.

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Misunderstand us Get us wrong Nobody planned this It’s been this way so long The dream is to dream The perfect weather To scrap a plan Let’s work together To do as little as we can The dream is to dream It’s been forgotten We lost the sun All the things we’re doing just to undo all the things that we have done Did we forsake us Are we alone Where did we take us This doesn’t feel like home It’s been forgotten We lost the sun All the things we’re doing just to undo all the things that we have done Please forgive us We were wrong We’ve been wrong There’s a better way And we all know it Please forgive us We were wrong We’ve been wrong There’s a better way And we all knew it
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Take a break You’ve been working too much Big mistake You don’t want to lose touch With who you’ve been all these years And who you’d like to remain Don’t let them change you Plant a tree Wait a lifetime There’s a tree What do you plan to do beneath the branches you made Shun the sun, tie your shoes in the shade All for wandering Under the stars of the daylight That’s enough You’ve got plenty Count your stuff Just how many pieces will you need to feel peace And how will you carry each When you’re wandering Under the stars of the daylight Under the stars of the daylight Under the stars of the daylight
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You can have it all So what? You can rule the world. Who cares? ‘Cause everything you do Eventually is undone The moon and the sun And everyone You can work a lot Okay Or you can choose to not Okay You can take the sun I’ll be in the shade We’ve got it made We’ve got it made Wide eyes at the sunrise Wise eyes almost life size Life size, almost. You can feast on faith Big deal Can we dream of peace You bet Everything you do Eventually is undone The moon and the sun And everyone Wide eyes at the sunrise Wise eyes almost life size Life size, almost. Wide eyes at the sunrise Wise eyes almost life size Life size, almost.
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Don’t blame the sun For what the clouds have done The way they hang a shadow over everyone You can’t finish things that you haven’t begun So don’t blame the sun When we emerge from hiding We find ourselves deciding To turn around and head back to our home Our shiny outlook rusted These people can’t be trusted We might be better off on our own Don’t blame the sun Don’t blame the sun For what the clouds have done The way they hang a shadow over everyone You can’t finish things that you haven’t begun So don’t blame the sun We’ll build a nest from rubble And sleep inside this bubble Floating on the surface of a stream Avoid the day time trouble Get back here on the double Remember that the dream is just to dream Don’t blame the sun Don’t blame the sun Don’t blame the sun Don’t blame the sun Don’t blame the sun
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Waking up is easy to do When waking up next to you Open up the window shade This could be our greatest day Let’s go out, walk to town See if any of our friends are around Stop in here for a bite I don’t have to speak, they know what I like. And we’ve got food in our guts And we’ve got love in our hearts What more could you, what more could you want? Aaaaah These are the days we’ll look back on and say Why can’t we live like that anymore These are the good old days. Look out! Later on, outside at night Look up at the trees lit by the fire light Friends are singing, crickets are singing Nobody’s thinking about what winter’s bringing. And we’ve got food in our guts And we’ve got love in our hearts What more could you, what more could you want? These are the days we’ll look back on and say Why can’t we live like that anymore These are the good old days. Look out!
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Who will take care of the old gray house Now that the family has moved away Underneath the weight of its history Underneath the limb of the favorite shade tree What shall we preserve? Who will record the lived-in years Who will unearth all the memories there Shrinking in the rain and cracking in the sun One by one the bricks of a chimney undone What shall we preserve? What should we keep? What should we keep? What should we keep? What shall we keep? What should we keep? And for how long? And for whom? Let the moss roll in let the vines grow wild Let the earth reclaim its exhausted child ‘Til all that remains is the outline of the stones A memory of itself in the woods all alone What shall we preserve? What should we keep? What should we keep? What should we keep? What shall we keep? What should we keep? And for how long? And for whom? What should we keep? What should we keep? What should we keep? What shall we keep? What should we keep? And for how long? And for whom?
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In the middle of a hurricane They stop and turned And asked us questions What’s the reason for these things you keep? And why are you trying to save them? And they didn’t lend a hand We were fired into outer space In a capsule aimed at a planet To try to learn if we could stand the place If there’s a language could we understand it But we’ll miss the breeze Watching the mercury climb We’ll miss the trees waving leaves in the summertime We’ll even miss the snow Watching the heater glow Hearing songs that we know on the radio Hearing songs that we know on the radio They had said we be the first ones to find out what it’s like But we landed in the wreckage of a thousand former flights We had bought into the story and we’re sorry that we did But we’ll miss the breeze Watching the mercury climb We’ll miss the trees waving leaves in the summertime We’ll even miss the snow Watching the heater glow Hearing songs that we know on the radio Hearing songs that we know on the radio Hearing songs that we know on the radio
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If you don’t mind I’ll stay behind If it’s alright I’ll stay in tonight If you don’t mind I’ll stay behind You go ahead I’ll be just fine Go on your own I’ll stay here at home If you don’t mind I’ll stay behind I’d be no fun to anyone Don’t want talk about anything to anyone that I know Or don’t know I’ll stay behind I’ll stay behind
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Look Up 03:40
We’ve been waiting all year long Just to get where we’ve been all along Look up, look up, look up Look up, we’re here Wake up, look up, wake up Wake up, we’re here
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A dreamy journey into life over the past few years (2020 to 2022). Disillusionment in the way the world works and with those around us leading to questions about what is important, what is worth keeping, how do we live? A celebration of the natural world, the consistency of the seasons, those moments and people that we hold dear. This is wandering music, three instrumental dreams anchor the rest of the songs which float atop howling and sliding lap steel guitar. The songs are their own people but the album is the family. Meet one at a time or hang out with all of them at once. It's not a movie, but it's almost a movie. There's an arc. A beginning and an end. We start off questioning where we are going and we end up where we started. At home.

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released June 3, 2022

Written, performed, recorded, and produced by Henning Ohlenbusch
Recorded and mixed at Rub Wrongways Studios, Northampton, Massachusetts
Mastered by Carl Saff
Art Design by Max Germer

All songs (c) 2022 Henning Ohlenbusch (ASCAP)

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Your friend and songwriter also found in the bands Gentle Hen, The Fawns, and Polaris.

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