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GATHER ROUND ME (version one)

from LIKE A WORLD by Patrick Regan Band

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Andy Goessling and I recorded this shortly after I wrote it, with just my guitar, his sax, and my vocals. After some thought, I rewrote it to better reflect the original inspiration, a night under the stars in Chaco Canyon, as well as what I'd been trying to say. I rerecorded it in 2022. This here is the first version; the current version can be heard on the album CROSSCUT TIMELINE.

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GATHER ROUND ME

Gather round me once again
Song and story now you will spin
You are the circle that's always been
Who am I? The space within

In a vessel made of clay
Shaped by hands and fire-born
What you see but cannot say
What's within that earthen form

Gather round me once again
Song and story now you will spin
You are the circle that's always been
Who am I? The space within

Where the night is a deeper black
There the stars confound the eye
Desert stone beneath your back
Til you fall into the sky

Gather round me once again
Song and story now you will spin
You are the circle that's always been
Who am I? The space within

Unknown hands laid stone on stone
In the middle of nowhere
Where the sun goes to be alone
Empty circles in empty squares

Gather round me once again
Song and story now you will spin
You are the circle that's always been
Who am I? The space within

Follow music where it goes
When there's no one there to play
There is so much that no one knows
Even more no one can say

Gather round me once again
Song and story now you will spin
You are the circle that's always been
Who am I? The space within

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from LIKE A WORLD, released January 14, 2023
Copyright Patrick S. Regan (BMI)

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A songwriter and singer, I'm handy enough to be a one-man band, but lucky enough to rope in great collaborators. Never played for a living: living to play.

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