Gordi - Sandwiches

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🗓️ 7 July 2020

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

Gordi - "Sandwiches" from the 2020 album Our Two Skins on Jagjaguwar.

On her latest LP Our Two Skins, Australian folktronica artist Gordi (real name: Sophie Payten) mourns the passing of her beloved grandmother, Alisa, whose spirit fills the gorgeous new album. It was even recorded in her hometown. "Her whole life was in Canowindra, and that's why I wanted to make the record there," Payten explains via a press release. "We made it in a house that's a hundred meters from her house."

The title of today's Song of the Day was derived from a moment during Alisa's last day in the world. Payten explained to ABC that she and her mother were making sandwiches to disperse among those visiting around her grandmother's hospital bed. “It was one of those moments where everyone was finally taking their first breath of the day that she chose to quietly slip away.”

“I’d been wanting to write a song about her and all of it, but I didn’t want it to be this terribly dreary, melancholic song, because it was a celebration of a life. So, I tried to focus on the tiny details.”

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0:00.0	Your cold happens underneath underneath as he served.
0:17.8	We made sandwiches and then they said it less.
0:25.0	I read words that someone has
0:28.0	known as he cried.
0:40.0	And I tried to think of all the times you told me you were done. You'd be on the phone every time we get home and I think you got your view.
0:47.0	You're really good. You, hey, hey, hey. I have tried to recall how you catch from sweaters snow.
1:19.0	I spent countless days recount counting your spray and how you felt.
1:27.0	Oh, I'll let you go.
1:30.0	He's what it's saying to me
1:34.0	now that side it has to let you go
1:39.0	to way it has to be
1:42.0	you'd be on the phone. Every time we get home and I think we get home and I think
1:51.4	I'm the to be breathing.
1:54.0	You'd be on your life.
1:58.0	You'd be on the phone,
2:02.0	every time we can home and I think I thought you believe. So, When I think of you a movie reel of moments place.
2:37.2	We'll be in the car or after nights on Saturdays You'll be walking down the driveway to be in your chair.
2:51.0	You'll say, you're down, you say your dream, now you're there.
3:00.0	You're there.
3:01.0	You'd be on the phone every time we get home and every time we get home and every
3:08.8	grant you'll be given. baby. I'm thinking. Oh, So, you know, I'm. You're going to.

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