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The Mystery and Milieu of You

from Fish from the Sky by E.G. Phillips

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    Decorated with whimsical acrylic paintings inspired by the lyrics of the "The Fish Song" combined with with E.G.'s "Ducks With Pants" "theme" and accompanied with an illustrated lyric booklet, this CD and its packaging are a reminder as to what's been lost in the digital age -- a chance to create something that is artful, expressive and also tangible to go along with the music we create.

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about

Once again, although I grew up in the Midwest, it's San Francisco and its environs that have been infused into my music lyrically.

Maya Hall sang this song at the first ever "EGPhest," a birthday celebration of mine where I invited various Bay Area performers to come out and cover my songs at Bazaar Cafe. And she's sort of adopted it since, which just sort of makes the heart melt a bit. I'm very grateful to have her contributing backing vocals to this track.

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Scraping fingertips
Along grooves of grout
On a brick wall
I’m dancing with
The shadow of a doubt
As dusk falls
Sashaying back and forth through
The Mystery and Milieu of You

Pedaling so hard
Down the Great Highway
Towards the Sunset
To Skyline Boulevard
Or some place untinged
By regret
Or should I swerve right into
The Mystery and Milieu of You?

Take the ferry
To Angel Island
Then Tiburon
Might as well be
Out on the windswept
Faralons
Can’t seem to solve or improve
The Mystery and Milieu of You

Scraping fingertips
Along grooves of grout
On a brick wall
I’m dancing with
The shadow of a doubt
As dusk falls
Sashaying back and forth through
The Mystery and Milieu of You

credits

from Fish from the Sky, released February 7, 2017
E.G. Phillips - vocals, acoustic guitar
Ryan Clark - drums, electric bass
Matthew DePasquale - trumpet
Shawn Byron - accordion
Maya Hall - vocals

produced and recorded by Ryan Clark
mixing, mastering and drum engineering by Steven Glaze at Tone Freq

music and lyrics by E.G. Phillips
© 2017 E.G. Phillips / Ducks With Pants Music, all rights reserved

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E.G. Phillips is a San Francisco based songwriter who creates lyric driven songs with his own special blend of whimsy and cinematic imagery which he uses to give a wry take on dealing with the longings of the heart and the madness of existence.

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