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The Riversitter (after Dave Eggers)

by Vienna Teng

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bht1974 New music and the song and the voice are as beautiful as they've ever been. You've been missed Vienna! x

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livienna I adore this track - from the pulsing, flowing background to the syncopated, intertwining melody. What a great example of doing what the lyrics suggest - the melody seems to sit perfectly within the flow of the accompaniment’s river.

I feel like this piece has many messages and we hear what we need to hear from it at any given time (which could be said about any Vienna song, I think). Right now I’m hearing to flow with the twists of life, not against them - while not being afraid to take risks. Favorite track: The Riversitter (after Dave Eggers).

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A response song to a brief, beautiful book called The Museum of Rain by Dave Eggers. This song was written for the podcast series SongWriter, in which creator and host Ben Arthur pairs storytellers with musicians. Each episode features both a story and the response song it inspired.

Proceeds from downloads will be donated to 826 Valencia, a youth writing center co-founded by Dave Eggers. 826valencia.org

Listen to the SongWriter episode with Dave Eggers and Vienna Teng: songwriterpodcast.com/Dave-Eggers-Vienna-Teng

Read The Museum of Rain (available in print, e-book, and audiobook read by Jeff Daniels): store.mcsweeneys.net/products/the-museum-of-rain

lyrics

come with me while the light is gold on the hill
and our day has hours left to go
there’s a place I’m told might be standing still
out beyond the field of headstones

you don’t have to tell a tidy story
you don’t need a home for every hole
you can just sit in the river, let the river run to you
you don’t need to trace your last ancestor
you don’t need a family name of old
you can just sit in the river, let the river run you through

come with me while the fennel shades the sourgrass
and the coyotes stretch out in the sun
there’s a manzanita rising beyond the pass
that long ago sheltered something I’d begun

you don’t have to tell a tidy story
you don’t need a home for every hole
you can just sit in the river, let the river rush to you
you don’t need to find and lose true love
you don’t need a twisting in your soul
you can just sit in the river, let the river run you through
you can just do a thing that you get the idea to do

come with me while the wildfires keep their distance
and your time, unlike mine, has years to go
we’ll stand before the shutter, prove our shared existence
a museum of the rain that feeds the river flow

you don’t have to tell a tidy story
you don’t need a home for every hole
you can just sit in the river, let the river run to you
and maybe only ruin comes of everything
that once was our whole world
but someone may run with a thing we had the idea to do

so come on let’s search among the strangers
and the souvenirs
how gorgeous and grand you have grown
sit with me among the branches
of this chandelier
while flesh and blood remain between our bones
and I will show you the most precious thing I own

credits

released September 19, 2023
Music & lyrics by Vienna Teng, based on words by Dave Eggers

Vienna Teng - vocals, keyboards, guitar, percussion
Ben Arthur - vocals
Alex Wong - mixing
Greg Calbi & Steve Fallone - mastering
Jacob Corvidae - artwork

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Vienna Teng Washington, D.C.

I’d like the experience of my music to be like a good dinner party, comfort food with a few experiments thrown in, where conversation stretches ’til 2 in the morning and books get pulled off the shelf to take home. Whatever gets you to that place, that’s what I’m going for. ... more

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