![]() JADE: (Singing) You know, I love it out here when there's no place I'd rather be. JADE: Even when I couldn't have a job or didn't have a steady income. JADE: Well, I mean, in the literal sense, I still hold on to all the journals that I was writing into in those times, but also even in the sense, too, of holding on to my guitars and trying to, you know, use those things as a vehicle to kind of keep me afloat. SIMON: So I'm interested - when you say your music was a place to be, how did you hold on to your music during this time? A lot of that time, too, there was a lot of just, like, wandering destitute, and I really kind of held on to my music to kind of help me always have a place to be. ![]() I would say there was people that did look out and offered me a couch or extra room when it was there. JADE: Yeah, and I would honestly say, to be correct, it was very on and off, but it definitely was some space in time where I didn't know where I was going to go, the next place. And that's personal space you didn't always have, right? You were without a home for a number of years. ![]() SIMON: In your video, we can get a real close-up look at your personal space, your bedroom. The same old stoplight that stops you on the street, and every Saturday go to the same place you go with me. JADE: (Singing) Tell me, how does it feel to live in the same place you grew up in? Now your best friends seem to marry their closest kin (ph). JADE: "Legs And Bones" was a song that I had written a few years back, and it's written in this way as a letter directed towards me moving on into another place but still reminiscing about where I come from and asking this person, you know, how does it feel to really still be back home after I'm kind of gone and I don't exist there anymore? SIMON: Tell us about this song, if you could - "Legs And Bones." ![]() It's also his submission to the Tiny Desk Contest this year. SIMON: That's a clip of Marcus Jade playing "Legs And Bones" in his bedroom in New York City. (SOUNDBITE OF MARCUS JADE'S "LEGS AND BONES") A camera nestled among houseplants captures chords from the guitar of Marcus Jade. ![]()
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