Name: Smiles and Polaroids
Duration: P00H03M38S
Description: At a farmers market I managed in Downtown Providence one year, every week a man would visit rolling a suitcase behind him carrying a polaroid camera. He talked to himself a fair amount and was always friendly with us. Often he would ask to take pictures of people, and he would then ask to keep the pictures for himself. He was an innocently haunted fellow.

Smiles and Polaroids

from Wandering Feet by Kayla Ringelheim

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At a farmers market I managed in Downtown Providence one year, every week a man would visit rolling a suitcase behind him carrying a polaroid camera. He talked to himself a fair amount and was always friendly with us. Often he would ask to take pictures of people, and he would then ask to keep the pictures for himself. He was an innocently haunted fellow.

lyrics

I got a whole world inside this suitcase
Filled with smiles and polaroids
I take it everywhere I go so I'll never feel alone

Every road I’ve ever walked
Every corner I have stalked
Stay light when the shadows fall

Cause all it takes is wind and sun to make this paper feel
Smile for me one more time and
Let me know its real
Let me know its real

Last night out on the balcony
Oh how the echoes raged
Like a chorus down at Carnegie Hall bouncing round a white stone cage

Every voice I ever met
Every sound I can’t forget
Like chains to a circus parade

Cause all it takes is wind and sun to make this paper feel
Smile for me one more time and
Let me know its real
Let me know its real

Old man daddy walker was my father’s name
He had a heavy drink hand, turned out a pawn in his own game

A captive now of time and wear
I look for kindness everywhere
My suitcase filled with photo prayers

2x
Cause all it takes is wind and sun to make this paper feel
Smile for me one more time and
Let me know its real

credits

from Wandering Feet, released November 17, 2012
Kayla Ringelheim--piano and vocal
Vance Gilbert--harmony vocal
Kevin Barry--lap steel
Jesse Williams--acoustic bass
Lorne Entress--drums, percussion, bells

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Kayla Ringelheim New York, New York

Kayla Ringelheim is a singer, songwriter, and pianist based in New York City.

discography

Returning Home

Jun 2022
What We Made

Apr 2022
Grow On

Oct 2019
Wandering Feet

Nov 2012
Play

May 2007
Tides

Feb 2005

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