Hayley Reardon Where The Artists Go (Edit)

Title track from Hayley Reardon's debut album on Kingswood Records.

Where The Artists Go:

"At the end of eighth grade, my social studies class was assigned a project on identity. We were told to draw ourselves exactly how we saw ourselves, and to write adjectives describing how we view ourselves on the inside of our bodies and adjectives describing how we think that others view us on the outside. We were then paired up with classmates to discuss why we drew and wrote what we did. I got paired up with a boy that I didn’t know very well. I had no idea that he could draw, but it became clear to me what an artist he was the second he handed me his piece of paper.

He had drawn his body all in black and white, then coming up out of his head was an explosion of thoughts, colors, symbols, and ideas. He put all of his adjectives describing himself inside of this explosion, rather than inside his body, as we were assigned. He talked to me about how he saw himself as “un-societal,” and explained that in his drawing, one of his hands is open, while the other is clasped tight to reflect the things he is open to and the things he can’t bring himself to accept.

Inside of his body he only wrote one word...human...as if this was the only thing he really knew about himself because he was still figuring out who he was, and what this colorful explosion on his paper might someday become.

I went home that day and couldn’t stop thinking about Paul and his drawing. I was so taken by what an artist he was and the fact that I had sat in class with him for eight years and had no idea about this explosion of light and color he had bubbling up inside.

So I wrote this song for him, and since then, I’ve made it my mission to look for the explosion of color inside of every person I meet...because everyone has a little artist in them somewhere...it's up to us to care enough to uncover it." Hayley Reardon (June 2012)
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Where The Artists Go (credits)

Hayley Reardon - vocals
Caleb Hawley - background vocals
Kevin Barry - acoustic guitar
Mark Erelli - electric guitar
Glenn Patscha - piano, Wurlitzer piano
Dave Limina - Hammond organ
Richard Gates - bass
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Where The Artists Go
(music & lyrics by Hayley Reardon/ASCAP)

There's a place you know
where the artists go
and honey colors line the sky
you're alive inside
trust your thunderous mind
always chasing, searching
always something new to find

and someday the walls of this town
are gonna cave in
and oh,
this explosion inside you
is gonna burst through your skin

Chorus
'Cause you see the beauty
with one hand open and one clasped tight
society don't know a damn about this life
and when they ask you for your name
you reply with all you know
saying I,
I am human
I am human

There's a place you know
where the artists go
and nobody holds an unseen light
nobody's masked, there's no stolen skin
cause you're proud to belong
where nobody fits in

Chorus
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Hayley Reardon
Tour Dates
09/23 - Cambridge, MA @ Club Passim (w/ Tom Rush)
09/27 - Framingham, MA @ MetroWest Women's Alliance Annual Gala
10/05 - Bellevue, WA @ The Cypress Lounge (Westin)
10/08 - Anchorage, AK @ Mears Middle School
10/09 - Anchorage, AK @ Goldenview Middle School
10/18 - Dedham, MA @ Paradise Cafe
10/21 - Cambridge, MA @ Club Passim (CD release show) [4:30PM]
10/27 - Boston, MA @ Mass General Hospital - Juvenile Diabetes Center
10/27 - Lynn, MA @ Walnut Street Cafe
11/09 - Boston, MA @ WUMB "Live at Noon"
11/18 - Cambridge, MA @ Club Passim [4:30PM]
11/20 - Concord, MA @ Concord Middle School

Hayley Reardon - Where The Artists Go
1. Where The Artists Go
2. Only Pretending
3. Change
4. Tribe
5. Music (feat. PZed)
6. Scribbles
7. Like He Knows The Red Sox
8. Addicted To Conviction (feat. Sterling Higa)
9. There You Are With Me
10. Seattle
11. Goodbye Song

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