Session #14: Matthew’s Dining Room
Posted By matthewlarsen / 8th February 2010
Inspired by The American Widow Project, I wrote lyrics to this song around Veteran’s Day in November of 2009 after this story on NPR caught my attention. The melody came a little bit later, and actually over time I wound up stripping down some of the other parts to keep this more straightforward.
Listen to “Little Black Boxes”
[audio:http://matthewlarsen.net/audio/diningroomdemos/littleblackboxes.mp3|titles=Little Black Boxes|artists=Matthew Larsen]
Little black boxes
Stacks of letters I sent
White car in the driveway
Two men and a flag
Within “The Days Ahead”And I try to smell him
But they washed all his clothes
And sealed them in plastic
In little black boxes
Within “The Days Ahead”
* “The Days Ahead” is the name of the 3 ring binder the U.S. Military gives to widows. The American Widow Project is on Twitter @americanwp