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STEPH JACQLIN PRESENTS: THE HEROES OF BASEBALL VOL. II

by Steph Jacqlin

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these songs were written and recorded in my bedroom this autumn. they are the dim first lights of a still distant star. keep an eye out for the new record 'STEPH JACQLIN', which will become visible in clearer weather

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THE HEROES OF BASEBALL

In early august evening when the sun bleeds out the sky
We’d slam the doors and kiss our moms goodbye
And leave them home to cut things up and wish that they were drinking
While 40 years of tears would fill their eyes
And skipping down the lane we’d simulate the sounds of rain
And go pittering and pattering away
And later on the swings arranging marriages and scenes
And things forbidden by the tyranny of day
While the Heroes of Baseball would play

They never hit one out of there and always threw the game
For something else that drew their eyes away
We'd watch them suck each other's thumbs behind the dusty dugout
And It was realer than whatever we could say
And when the moms caught up to us they threatened us with daggers
They sent us home and sentenced us to die
In tiny rooms of tiny worlds that have no worlds between them
We’d lick the sheets and make our bodies cry
Trying to taste second base one more time

Time is like a statue and time is like a coin
and Time grabs you once and never lets you go
The feeling disappears and leaves you nothing but some tender words
You shared one summer two lifetimes ago
But with our words arranged in rhyme we scream against the windows
And promise we will meet again someway
A word can be a hand that reaches towards a dusty diamond
That sits beyond the ends of all our days
Where the Heroes of Baseball still play

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released December 4, 2020

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Steph Jacqlin Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

steph makes records of her feelings and her memories

artist photo by Rose Paulson
banner by Joseph Rogers

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