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Big Blue World

from Abilene by Chris Beall

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" Big Blue World" is based on a Polaroid picture with my Grandma and me (as a kid), and a small town diner in Abilene called The Dixie Pig. It's a song about all of us--our legacies lived-out in the lives of those closest to us.

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The building still stood in my hometown;
A diner of memories still hangin around.
Grandmas and kids just like us
And somebody's pictures on the wall hangin up.

Plaid shirts and corduroy side by side.
Break-out the Polaroid, now, both of y'all smile.
We're left with snapshots held up with pushpins
Up on the wall of a diner we were in.

People remain in an ever-changing world;
Some mother's sons and little girls
In a small town diner
In a Big Blue World.

Years they would come and they'd go.
That kid in the Polaroid left for Nashville, don't ya know.
And there in the plaid---whatever happened to that one?
Well he's still around, but the old lady's gone.

I felt the rumble, yeah, felt my world shake
And I knew it was comin' nine-hundred miles away.
After the earthquake, well, that life was dust;
The grandmas and kids, that used to be us.

But people, they change and they take on the world;
Some mother's sons and little girls.
Yes, they rise from the ashes
In a Big Blue World.

When I can't recall, there's a picture hangin' up.
As time moves along, one memory gets stuck.
And some mother's son someday will see
In a plaid shirt in a Polaroid, Grandma and me.

And we will remain in an ever-changing world,
Some mother's son and a little girl,
In a small-town diner
In a Big Blue World

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from Abilene, track released September 10, 2021
written by Chris Beall Beallstreet/SESAC

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Chris Beall Austin, Texas

Chris Beall is a singer/songwriter/producer/guitarist who's albums have been featured on numerous Americana radio/music charts. He is a member of the well-established South Austin Moonlighters whose album “Travel Light” went to #1 on the Alternative Country Roots Radio Report in 2019 and reached #61 on the national Americana radio chart. ... more

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