My Kind of Memory

from Abilene by Chris Beall

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My Kind of Memory is a glimpse back in time through the eyes of childhood recollection. Funny how so many of us can remember seemingly insignificant details about our childhood experiences. I think those details unpack greater things that are locked inside, and this story kinda points to that. It's a song about a daughter and a grandpa...about the "greatest generation" that went off to war and fought for our world as we know it.

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I can see the mountains from this front-porch-view
Drinking Coke from the bottle playing gin.
Board games, peanut shells on the ground.
Remembering when.

They say you all are heroes of the bravest kind
Left families, sons and daughters in the wind
All the places and the faces you left behind
Over the mountains and then back home again

Echoes of your footsteps through this life we made;
A ghost town for only you and me
No one else remembers quite the same way
It's a side of you only I can see
You're my kind of memory

Like the wind talks through the switch grass, I heard your voice
When the world slowed down as if to try and see
The child out on the front porch staring back in time
Past the mountains, the prairies, and the sea.

Echoes of your footsteps through this life we made;
A ghost town for only you and me
No one else remembers quite the same way
It's a side of you only I can see
You're my kind of memory

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from Abilene, released June 28, 2021
written by Chris Beall Beallstreet/SESAC
and Amy Hooper WalkingDichotomyMusic/ASCAP

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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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