In June 2011, I put our younger son Joe on a plane overseas to study in France. It was a tough day, and walking up Lexington Avenue later on, I found myself talking to Joe: "By now, you're somewhere over the Atlantic..." As this one-sided conversation went on, a tune attached itself. I never forgot it. Years later, after Joe had lived in China and Mongolia, our older son Nick produced this fine recording.
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Charles duChateau added an amazing cello part on this track -- notice the word painting he does!
lyrics
Some Things Will Never Change
By now you're somewhere over the Atlantic
Whitecaps on the ocean winking up at your plane
And by now you've probably drifted off to sleep
After all it's been a rich and full day
And tomorrow you'll be waking up and getting on a train
And tomorrow you'll be learning some new words to say
What is French for I miss you, what is Chinese for I love you
How do you say some things will never change
Some things will never change, my love is in your pocket
Some things will never change, my love's behind your ear
Some things will never change, no matter how far you fly from here
Remember how at the end of every summer
We would drive back to the city and you'd holler hello
Hello you would call out from your car seat
To the bridges and streets, you called them beautiful
Now you're off to see the world, you're not in my back seat
And I am not the one behind the wheel
So God speed to that pilot, and God speed to the four winds
That will carry you where you will
Some things will never change, like the way you light up my sky
Never change, every time you smile
Some things will never change, you're smiling in my mind's eye
No matter how far you fly, some things will never change
You know, you know, you know
Some things will never change, my love is in your pocket...
from Some Things Will Never Change -- Single,
track released October 16, 2015
Tina deVaron, vocals, piano; Charles duChateau, cello
Recorded by Sean Swinney at Sean Swinney Recording, NYC; cello recorded by Charles duChateau at chez duChateau
Mixed and mastered by Emily Angell at the D.A.E.
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