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Vivian

from 10% Hopeful by Corduroy Cat

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lyrics

Last Saturday night I had the strangest dream
About a woman I had never met
Shot in black and white and framed so right
It was as photogenic as it gets
I was sent there for some reason
to deliver some terrible news
That thing that she kept so tightly under wrap
Has gotten outside the boxes you kept it in
I remember floating through Chicago
over a span of many years
And all the faces from her Rolleiflex taken
Dipped in Amber, stuck in time.
It took a while to find her, when I did she seemed annoyed
She asked me what I thought I wanted here
I looked down at my hands and then began to say

Oh Vivian,
Can I just tell you about the shape I’m in?
Time’s running out, I still won’t let them in
Into the space inside the frame
Oh Vivian
Your life was rescued from a garbage bin
How will we ever know oblivion?
How will we ever be the same?
Now everybody knows your name

I asked her why she’s never smiling
In the portraits of herself
She said remember the fires that forged you
And never worry about anyone else
‘Cause I don’t have to warn you
this world can be a terrifying place.
You never know if things you think you see
Are really there or has the light just tricked your eyes somehow?

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from 10% Hopeful, released June 3, 2022

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Corduroy Cat Chicago, Illinois

Corduroy Cat is an all-original 4-piece band based in the Chicagoland area. Formed in 2019, as the brainchild of singer, Dan Doherty, (guitar, piano) who was soon joined by Bob Poole on bass, Marv Doolin on guitar and Kalyan Pathak on drums.

Their debut album 10% Hopeful is a genre-defying, modern-day song cycle depicting a journey emerging from a dream, into darkness then back into the light.
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