WILL SARTY of Freebone
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*Tell us a story behind one of your songs*.
I wrote the song secret hands after helping friends of Sarah Barker(Freebone
vocalist) move a piano up a flight of stairs into their apartment. Three of
us took up the daunting task, and after moving it out of the original house
we were all feeling a little run down. Wayne, had two young boys, six and
nine, and like all young boys, watching a bunch of out of shape men thrust a
piano up a narrow staircase proved to be irresistible. After getting the
piano halfway up the stairs Wayne, who was at the top wanted to switch
places with Steve who was at the other end pushing with me, so off they
went, going the long way around the house as the piano was blocking the main
entrance. I don't know if they stopped for tea, or maybe skipped gaily to
the corner store for a power aid beverage, but when your holding a five
hundred plus pound piano halfway up a steep staircase, time seems to drip
along pretty casually. So there I am, face like a tomato, teeth
clenched...feeling really weighed down. Until I heard a faint huffing and
puffing beside me, I turned my head and there was Waynes six year old boy
Anthony, pushing like we were going to thrust that old piano through heaven
and beyond...Wayne quickly came and moved the feral super boy out of harms
way and we finished our job. That little moment was etched deeply into my
brain...how the mind of a child has no obstacle to large...Piano! Ill move
your stinkin piano! Step aside! I feel if we would have left him to it, he
probably would have! So the song is an ode to how wonderful the imagination
of a child is.
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