The TakeAway

from The TakeAway by Tad Wise

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about

It's pointless to write about this track except to say that after Daniel A Weiss was done arranging, recording the majority of it, and producing the entirety-- I knew what my next album would be called. For here is where it began. The story of the music is detailed in the bandcamp single I released in February of this year. Aside from that...the song is the story and the story is the song. And I wish you love and strength and courage when you face what my fiancee and I faced which, "married us on that shipwrecked beach called 'The TakeAway.' "

lyrics

The TakeAway Words & Music by Tad Wise

Finally found that love to stay
To brighten my darkest day
Too bad that's what's 'round the corner.
Can't be put off any longer.
That's The TakeAway.

Devastation had a plan,
Awaited my ring on her hand but
At last here's this tender mercy
Against pain too intense to name
Save in "The TakeAway."

It's The TakeAway, ah The TakeAway.

As if it weren't enough to be
Caught up in one tragedy,
Whoever does the comforting
Must soon be robbed of the same dearest thing.
That's The TakeAway.

Finally we have found each other
Just in time to each lose our mother.

That's The TakeAway. The TakeAway.

Years roll by slowly surely
Steeped in vows we'd taken early
Profound joy and wrenching grief
Married us on that shipwrecked beach called
The TakeAway. That's The TakeAway.
That's The TakeAway.
Please take away The TakeAway.

Grand Adventure Music
BMI 2023

credits

from The TakeAway, released November 18, 2023
Tad Wise: lead vocal & guitars
Daniel A. Weiss: engineer, arranger; all keyboards
including bass and drum programs and background vocals
Jerry Marotta: additional drums
Mixed and Mastered by Mark Dann
Mikhail Glabets: cover photograph
Stuart Bragg: Graphic Design
Produced by Daniel A Weiss

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about

Tad Wise Woodstock, New York

Tad Wise started writing songs at ten, while raking Bob Dylan’s leaves. He was discovered by John Hall in 2000 who promptly produced Wise’s first CD. Twenty years later Wise returned. First with "For The Record," with Tony Levin & Jerry Marotta. Then with "Mind's Eye." In 2023 he'll release
"The TakeAway," starting with the title track...right now. ... more