Sean Kelly of The Samples is the man!

Seton and I just got word from lead singer of The Samples Sean Kelly that we could use his lyrics to Feel Us Shaking in TRW. This is wonderful news on many levels. The first being is using the song lyrics (we are only using a few but they are so timely) will enhance a major scene near the end of the book. But I also hope if our book has any success it can help put the spotlight back on Sean Kelly who is such an amazing singer and lyricist. I was first introduced to The Samples back in 1993 by my summer friend Mark Penta. He brought the CD The Last Drag down to Falmouth during a cold, February week. Over the years, it had become a tradition that Mark would come and stay at our house for several days, and during that time he'd try to introduce me to what the next hot band was going to be. There were many times I said, "No, thanks. Turn it off." But when he played The Last Drag I was hooked! I was a fan for life! So when Seton and I began working on TRW I knew I wanted to get a Samples song mentioned, and when I was listening to my favorite one - Feel Us Shaking (the live acoustic version which you can buy on their website) - one day as I was driving over Falmouth Heights' hill looking out at the sparkling ocean, I knew that was the one. I raced home and played it for Seton (who had never heard the song before), and his eyes lit up and he said, "This sounds so much like us as kids growing up on the beaches of Falmouth." Then a few months later I was at a show at The Paradise and Sean Kelly said to the crowd, "I wrote this next song when I lived in a town called Falmouth one summer." It was Feel Us Shaking. It absolutely blew me away! He did know us (Cape Codders) and how we felt. The song was so inspirational to Seton and I when we would hit a snag while working on the book. So Seton and I would like to publicly thank Sean Kelly and The Samples for unknowingly helping us complete this project! Now if we ever could only get Sean with his guitar to the Cape for the Book Launch Party at The Beach House in May to celebrate with all of us..... We can dream. Can't we? Here are the lyrics and a more upbeat version of Feel Us Shaking.

Feel Us Shaking by The Samples

Gentle thoughts meander through the sand
as the ship made currents reach the land
the omniscient sun paving through the sky
and when it's done all the seabirds fly

I'd like to stay but I couldn't stay with you
I have to go, but I have a lot I want to do
pleasures be waiting by the sea
with a smile for all the world to see

diamond waves through sunglass days go by
so beautiful to be here and alive
though I've built sometimes so hard did I survive?
CAN YOU feel us shaking?

beneath the sea another world exists
it's tugging me by the ankles and my wrists
the morning wind come and pull me away
out to where the dolphins play

diamond waves through sunglass days go by
so beautiful to be here and alive
though I've built sometimes so hard did I survive?
CAN YOU feel us shaking?

pleasures be waiting by the sea
with a smile for all the world to see

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