Rachel Sumner & Traveling Light // Easton (2022 Tiny Desk Contest Entry)

"Easton" © Rachel Sumner 2016 -- Rachel Sumner - Lead vocals, guitar Kat Wallace - Harmony vocals, fiddle Ira Klein - Lead guitar Alex Formento - Pedal Steel Michael Siegel - Upright bass Recorded at PB&J Records // filmed by Kayte Darling Photo mixed by Jay Psaros www.rachelsumnermusic.com -- we were straddling the line of spring and summertime when Easton chose to bloom sparing our hearts the sting of a cold empty room though your hand was in mine i could feel your wandering mind could you feel mine too? oh, wasn’t it last year we walked through The Pasture with mud up to our knees? you were knobby and pale and tall like one of those birch trees and i had your love but for me it wasn’t enough it wasn’t. i won’t mind if i can’t quite recall our shadows swaying on your bedroom wall i won’t mind if i could just forget how slow it was watching that sunset at Borderland you held me tight when you hold me now it just ain’t right it just ain’t right