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La Fonda

by The Furious Seasons

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1.
As a Matter of Fact (free) 04:06
As a Matter of Fact The day breaks hot Before you expect it will The sun beats like fire at your back The Santa Ana winds Blew like the world might end On the day you left As a matter of fact I don’t blame you much LA just fed your crutch You drink it up You backtrack Until the love and work and the music fade You are so easy to distract As a matter of fact And all the light All the love in the world Couldn’t set you right Couldn’t curb your appetite A nose-diving meteorite in the LA night It’s no secret that She’ll probably take you back But how long would that last You’ll break those vows before the month is out Her spirit just as fast All the light All the love in the world Couldn’t set you straight A Greyhound shot out of a gate Desire that will not abate until it’s too late When the wind blows hard On October days When it’s bone dry and summertime hot I wonder when you’ll be back this way LA is all we’ve got
2.
Burn Clean (free) 04:14
Burn you Clean I’ll probably never hang that picture of you. I’ll probably never know exactly why I’ll blankly stare at that spot on the wall picturing you in my mind’s eye. You’re standing alone in the corner Of the bar that you all built with your hands With the drink you could never put down In a frozen world of impossible plans. The Arizona heat It’ll take your breath away It will change your mind and burn you clean All before mid-day. The Arizona sky Goes on for a million miles I believe you thought It would save your life Against all odds and common sense You went out on your own With a few trusted defenders On the new frontier Where your father makes his home A new melody emerged But that dissonant refrain Rose up like a monster from bottom of the lake Waiting for your soul to reclaim The Arizona heat It’ll take your breath away It will change your plans and burn you clean All before mid-day. The Arizona sky Goes on for a million miles I believe you thought It would save your life There was plenty of bullshit and bluster F/G There was plenty of panic and tears C/F But I can count on one hand Dm/G The times you let me in In the span of all those years Am/Em/F I’ll probably never hang that picture of you. I’ll probably never know exactly why I picture you letting the sun go down in the blood-red Havasu sky
3.
Figure It Out (free) 04:52
Figure it Out Who could feign surprise When you flew off the tracks No net, no brakes, and this time no getting back Even when you got upright You could hear the engine churn All those lessons you’ll never learn Lay in wait for one good downturn But you’ve weren’t alone You were not alone Did you think you were alone? What I could’ ve/should’ve done What I would’ve done What I never did and so All that is left now is to figure out how to let you go It must be lonely late at night It must be pure hell when you wake How could you turn your back? Knowing full well what was at stake? I could never call you out You would never call it by its name If we’re well past placing blame You’ve still every reason to walk in shame
4.
I Was An Actor (free) 04:21
I Was an Actor For a little while All the planets were aligned You were a beacon You were a North Star And I was an actor Struggling with my lines The boss of the flatlands East of the Hollywood sign I’m sorry I went away I go away sometimes (You pushed me away sometimes) Inside and away ( A hard push away) I should kick myself For every time That I kicked myself For not being the one who could change your settled (stubborn) mind I was enamored You were both so shiny and clean Lanky like Elvis Aloof like James Dean Back then they called me The renaissance man I was just a kid fumbling From failed plan to failed plan In the beginning All of the planets were aligned You were a rare find You were one of a kind And I was an actor In desperate need of a fresh start You were the North Star I was glad to play my part
5.
Slide Into Sadness (free) 03:50
Slide into Sadness Anger slides into sadness Pride breathes into grace It kills me to think of you working so hard to hide The fear written all over your face Why blame myself, For things I couldn’t see? Still I know when I’m alone and thinking straight It was no help to you, knowing me The seasons they change This life is just a song It plays on for a little while We do our best to sing along (play) Some tunes fade away Some end suddenly Some twist and turn and then End in a way you would never believe Now you’re chatter among friends Wine and tall tales You and I, we were a classic war story Ahab and his whale We had our good fun We dragged each other through the mud Still, I doubt that you ever doubted for a second That I loved you just like you were blood
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Statistically Speaking The triumphrat go for drinks and to shoot a little pool Was it luck or fate to cross paths with you two? At first reserved you soon proved not immune A short courtship and a long honeymoon Against us three You had no hope to defend Before the evenings end I had some new best friends New best friends I’d been through changes, I’d stalled out, I had faltered The life I’d hoped for, once and forever altered I was looking inward, keeping my head down I was living scared, sick of myself, sick of this town But like a godsend Right there and then I started to mend, when I found some new best friends New best friends I had settled in To a life of ambivalence But you shook me from that trance Gave me a second chance I bet it’s more common for 30 year old men At least statistically speaking When you put paper to pen To fall down a well Or be struck by lightening Then to find a pair of new true best friends On whom you can depend Who will be there until the end Who helped me find myself again New best friends New best friends
7.
Pitch Black (free) 04:51
Pitch Black The pitch-black hours before dawn Would it kill you to put something warm on? Did you tell your mom where you were going and how long you’d be gone? No small victory, this truce that we’ve made And I’ll drive you home now, you just could’ve stayed And I’ll watch from the car as you walk up and until the doors shut I watch the sun sneak up And light this suburban street In the face of the new day and all its possibilities You turn back and half-smile at me The fire soaked in pain And these California dreams Where everything moves so fast Until nothing was what it seems My callow stupidity I just had to leave OK, I wasn’t around Let’s not go and make too much of that now We both know that it could have been worse I think you know I’m not proud Now the sun’s in my eyes Forever blinding me To the way things turned out And the way that they’ll never be But you’re still the best part of me The pitch-black hours before dawn On this dissolving night And from now on Can you just let me be someone that you can count on?
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The Vast Divide (free) 04:02
The Vast Divide There were no last words No sweet sticky stuff If you’d heard it all Maybe I’d said enough Somewhere I lost the code Maybe you hid it from me All I know is nothing ever gets found In the place I thought it’d be So, you sail into the light and wave goodbye There’s no way we were ever going to bridge that vast divide Raise your glass and I ‘ll raise mine like everything is going to turn out fine And maybe when I cross that street, you and I will meet on the other side Salute the uniform, the drunkard inside It seems like all was forgiven The minute you died But I’ve no illusions now I kind of wish that I did Laid to bare in sad detail The secrets you kept hid So, you sail into the light and wave goodbye There’s no way we were ever going to bridge that vast divide Raise your glass and I ‘ll raise mine like everything is going to turn out fine And maybe when I cross that street, you and I will meet on the other side If there were last words I don’t recall when Spoken unaware in the clouds We were both so different then So, you sail into the goodnight and wave goodbye There’s no way you were ever going to bridge that vast divide Tip your cap to one side, nod and wink to your child and bride Christ, I will even pray, that it’s a different day on the other side
9.
Your Irish Funeral A big church on outskirts of town In the crisp Indiana air There were so many people there Most you never knew It was still nice that that they showed up I know that your mother means well I know how much she loves you And how little she could do And how hard she tried And how she never gave up All those uniforms and those white robes Those hip modern Catholic hymns I pictured you in the pew With a bottle of booze Saying “tell me that this ain’t a sin” But at your Irish funeral All the people that you really knew Would be high as hell At your house on the hill Singing (Jeff Buckley, Avett Brothers, Paul Simon, your favorite) songs above you We’d tool our way around town Climb up under the old Disney bridge We’d hit 41 then 3 Clubs Probably drive my truck into a ditch The room was rightfully heavy and sad I was just pissed off I said some hard things Some that needing saying I feel less like that now And they prayed and they praised, and they cried And they lined up to have a last view But when the priest and the like Spoke about your life Weren’t no one resembling you
10.
I Want to Be Sure It’s cold up the mountain in Mammoth Lake during the last weekend of January For a kid from the North Valley who’s never really known snow The sun pierces the clouds, ok let’s go Staying up all night and working all day tearing down the icy, windy slopes The night we watched the stars, just lying in the middle of the road As if they ‘d tell us something we didn’t already know I’m trying to remember the warmer side The generous heart/The easy smile The sideways knowing smile/Infectious and childlike The strength and the humor, the softness and the light And I want to be sure that I remember it right You could let your guard down a bit When you got away from the city That’s when you were your best self or maybe just yourself Its those times that I need to remember well

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Produced by 5 time Grammy winner Alfonso Rodenas, "La Fonda" is the third album from The Furious Seasons as a trio. Brothers David and Jeff Steinhart continue their recording journey that started in1984 with the bands Pop Art and later Smart Brown Handbag. Guitar player Paul Nelson completes out the small folk orchestra.

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released August 7, 2020

David Steinhart-Guitar, Vocals
Paul Nelson-Guitar, Dobro, Vocals
Jeff Steinhart- Bass
Additional Players:
Aubrey Richmond-Violin
Edoardo Tancredi- Drums, Percussion
Arlan Oscar-Accordion

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The Furious Seasons Los Angeles, California

The Furious Seasons are an acoustic trio with stories to tell. Living inside these songs are tales of persons in desperate situations, chronicles of life in 21st century Los Angeles, and stories of quietly heroic individuals, often told with a nod towards the passage of time. Acclaimed songwriter, singer and guitarist David Steinhart fashions songs that live on the hopeful side of melancholy, ... more

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