Once Upon a Time - Tiny Desk 2020

Our Tiny Desk entry, from our porch to yours. Complete with a newly built porch desk, courtesy of the current stay-home situation, a pile of old fencing, and a need to hammer something. A few days after arriving home from our shortened Australia tour, I was starting to feel the weight of everything fall heavy in my chest, hurting for all the people hurting, scared of all the uncertainty. I was starting to be paralyzed by so much time without known specific tasks to fill it. But when I just sat and let be what was, and stopped trying to be productive for a moment, words came to me. I wrote them down. Then more came, then a melody. I wrote what I knew in that moment. It became a song called Once Upon a Time, as it’s our nature to use stories we know to find hope, and nature wins every time. Once Upon a Time by Ordinary Elephant Tell me that story again darlin’ The one where we all end up alright Tell me that story again darlin’ Wasn’t it true once upon a time? Wasn’t it true once upon a time? I’ll keep keeping up with the laundry You’ll keep keeping up with the car I guess things aren't really changing here But it sure feels like they are It sure feels like they are We’ve got good dogs, we’ve got a good porch We’ve got eyes to see and we’ve got a good view We’ve got ears to hear and we are listening The truth is not something we can choose The truth is not something we can choose Tell me that story again darlin’ The one where we all end up alright Tell me that story again darlin’ Wasn’t it true once upon a time? Wasn’t it true once upon a time?