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I wrote this track in Mali. I was couch surfing at an American engineer's house. He was never there and it was always too hot to go out in the day so I'd sit on his porch and write. I'm not sure what spurred me to write, for want of a better word, a love song, set in an office, but that's what happened. 'I send my regards to your house-folk' is a Malian expression.

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Today's Tuesday I saw her yesterday but I haven't seen her yet today. I fortify my hopes I wanna send my regards to your house-folk, but we haven't been introduced and I don't know anyone that you do; not a single person.
I fortify my hopes I wanna send my regards to you house-folk, I feel I stare much too much. But she means just about everything to me, I wonder if she's hungry as she feeds upon my brain, as she feeds upon my brain; let go.
Today's Wednesday, I've seen her already.
Concentrate my thoughts look away before I'm caught. This is border-line obsession, she must be aware, but she seems content just to let me stare. I concentrate my thoughts look away before I'm caught but I can swim in her, I can swim in her.
Thursday I walked up to her and said 'hello my name is Oliver' she smiled the rest is a blur, but now I know she knows that my name is Oliver.
Fortify my hopes, sent my regards to your house-folk. Concentrate my thoughts look away before I'm caught. Her eyes, her smile, her face makes this office space more than just a waste of time, more than just a waste of my time.

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from Bears Will Eat Their Young, track released January 1, 2010
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Whatthe Animalssay Berlin, Germany

Traveling Gonzo Composer/duo. Forty-One Countries tapped for inspiration. Traveling with a micro studio, a microphone and an acoustic guitar, composing and uploading where and when possible. Songs written freely from Iceland to Togo without the constraints of industry. ... more

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