This song was in response to the prompt to write a two-chord song. I really did just sit and play the chords and work out other stuff later. Some of the toy stuff is from my own kids carrying things around, but I kind of had this image of someone holding a crystal egg so tight that it breaks.
credits
from Back From Santa Fe,
released July 22, 2007
Written, performed, and recorded by Ross Durand
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