Walking on Someone Else's Name by Noah Georgeson

Walking on Someone Else's Name

by Noah Georgeson

Noah Georgeson is a musician, producer, and solo recording artist. Georgeson's debut album Find Shelter was released through Plain Recordings on November 28, 2006. He is credited as having "written, scored, arranged, recorded, and produced" the entirety of Find Shelter, according to a press release from Plain Recordings. Born, 1975 in San Anselmo, California, he moved with his family to Nevada City, California at the age of four. Georgeson first found success as a part of San Francisco band The Pleased, along with fellow member Joanna Newsom, whose debut album The Milk-Eyed Mender he produced. He has played guitar in Devendra Banhart's live band since 2004, produced both Banhart's Cripple Crow and Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon, and is credited as a songwri…

Fixing a name to a place is left to history
Tags are all hung written out now for a century
The Glenn's Plateaus and barrows all are named
Isthmuses and the coves all have been claimed

We're walking on someone else's
We're swimming in someone else's
We're building on someone else's name

Can't give a face to a statue, plaque, an effigy
Maps are all full, there's no wall space in the galleries
Archipelligos and meadows all have names
The straits, the peaks, the passes have been claimed

We're walking on someone else's
We're swimming in someone else's
We're building on someone else's name

Written by: NOAH GEORGESON

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