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Monthly Archives: May 2011

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The Old Man of Minami Soma—A small lyric or poem or what have you.

The story behind this is pretty short: I offered to write some lyrics for a friend to sing at a recent benefit show for earthquake and tsunami relief in Japan, and he didn’t use them. Oh, he thought what I’d written was lovely, but too long. And they just didn’t fit the tone of the [...]

Posted on May 27, 2011 by Dan Ryan | Filed Under Japan, Earthquake 03/11/11, Quakebook | Leave a comment |

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