My Oasis — A Love Song to Huntington Village - This past Sunday at Austin's Ale House - video Dailymotion

Frederick Chipkins Musical Diary

A quiet walk back through the streets that made me. “My Oasis” is a love song written from my memories — the alley shortcuts, Heckscher Park afternoons, the lake that still calls our names, and the little shops that held pieces of my life. It’s a song about how places change but the feelings they hold remain, and how coming home can feel like stepping into a memory that never left. Sung at Austin’s Ale House in Kew Gardens Queens. Hopefully I was able to convey this fragile, honest, moment. Copyright © 2025 Frederick Chipkin.

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00:00Okay, this song is called Bioasis. It's about Huntington Village, where my parents had a ceramic store. I love that they're everywhere.

00:15In my thoughts, the streets are still the same. People tell you that things will always change.

00:30And they tell me that my mother needs to pass. In my heart, I know that always lasts.

00:43Shortcuts taken down our streets, and extra park where we used to be. The lake's still there, and it still calls our day.

00:52Well, I sang your song, a sweet serenade, and time stretched out, and plans were made. We'd come so far, yet come back here again.

01:03Oh, the sweet streets of Huntington Village. Time's moved on, but the feeling's still the same.

01:15Every once I've carried us forward, but in my heart, he'll always remain.

01:27It was here with fingers.

01:29As a wolf, a corner on a common street, my parents go not bad to dream, but I close my eyes, and it's still standing there.

01:38There's aerobic showers and oasis, with stoneware pots and sparkling blazes. The storm is gone, but the heart comes home again.

01:50All those sweet streets of Huntington Village. Time's moved on, but the feeling's still the same.

02:02And the winds have carried us forward, but in my heart, he'll always remain.

02:12All those sweet streets of Huntington Village.

02:18The flower shops managed it to wear, and the music's still no longer there, and the bookshop's now smoothed so far down the street.

02:28Time's moved on, but things have changed, but my love for you is still the same, for things have gone, but the heart comes home again.

02:39All those sweet streets of Huntington Village. Time's moved on, but the feeling's still the same.

02:51And the winds have carried us forward, but in my heart, he'll always remain.

03:01All these worn and covered memories, cast in griefs of all I've known.

03:11And the winds have carried us back again, to the place that I hold home.

03:22To the coming of my life.

03:24I'll be in my heart.

03:26That's amazing.

03:27You okay?

03:28You okay?

03:29You're welcome.

03:30I'm gonna tear you up.

03:31I'm gonna tear you off, but the feeling's still the same.

03:34The soul is even gonna do nothing, so that you need to be in your heart.

03:36I do.

03:37For the time of my heart.

03:39I want to thank you, my heart.

03:40You're welcome.

03:41You're welcome.

03:42I will ask you.

03:43You're welcome.

03:44You're welcome.

03:45You're welcome.

03:46I'm gonna be here.

03:47I will be here that way.

03:48That way you're back.

03:49I believe you're welcome.

03:50I will be there to be at work.

My Oasis — A Love Song to Huntington Village - This past Sunday at Austin's Ale House

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