This is my cover of the Queen song by Freddie Mercury.

Look into my eyes and you'll see I'm the only one
You've captured my love
Stolen my heart 
Changed my life

Every time you make a move you destroy my mind
And the way you touch - I lose control and shiver
Deep inside
You take my breath away

You can reduce me to tears with a single sigh
Every breath that you take
Every sound that you make
Is a whisper in my ear

I could give up all my life for just one kiss
I would surely die if you dismissed me from your love
You take my breath away

So please don't go
Don't leave me here all by myself
I get ever so lonely from time to time
I will find you
Anywhere you go
I'll be right beside you
Right until the ends of the earth
I'll get no sleep til I find you
To tell you that you just
Take my breath away

I will find you
Anywhere you go
Right until the ends of the earth
I'll get no sleep til I find you
To tell you when I've found you
I love you

You Take My Breath Away (Queen Cover)

out March 4th, 2022 on streaming platforms

Tired of Trying

Not Satisfying

Who Cares

out April 22, 2022 on streaming platforms

The Seasons

https://joeholt.bandcamp.com/track/the-times-they-are-a-changin-demo donating all sales to Planned Parenthood

The Times They Are A Changing (Bob Dylan cover)

I didn't ever think that I was good so I would blame it all on luck
and I didn't ever feel like I was worth somebody's love, and so it stuck
I didn't ever practice and I didn't ever try or see the point
and I never really gave my very best - I would detest to disappoint
and I tell myself I'm not the same as I was then

and I'm full of faith in love, in me and you, in us,
contrarily I don't believe in souls or ghosts or God
or even, usually, in me
oh, hypocrisy
and I'm working every day to find a way inside the person I 
aspire to be; eventually, the person I admire will be me
I am not the same as then

My parents wouldn't praise me if I couldn't do the things they say I can
My friends wouldn't support me if I wasn't worth the effort of a hand
and you would never love me if my image of myself was who I am
Does all that mean I'm not the same as I was then?

and I don't save lives or work in mines so that my family survives
I don't donate to charity, I don't even recycle with any
regularity
and I place more value in a single freckle on your back than in the whole of me
and constantly, I love you so intensely I can't see
that I am not the same as then

am I real?

I will give myself the glory that I give to you and give to love
the kind that men from southern Tennessee give to guns and God above
Make America Great Again
I will move along and fight my little fight to be a better man
and every night I'll grow a bit more bright and gather evidence to cite
I am not the same as then
No I am not the same as then

Produced by The Barnett Brothers
Recorded, engineered, and mastered by Ben Barnett at The Hang Studios, Fort Worth, TX
Additional recording by Connor Gehlert at Micky Splatt Studios in Nashville, TN
and by Sam Milinazzo at the Record Co. in Boston, MA.

Joe Holt - vocals, guitars
Matt Byron - upright bass
Caleb Barnett - drums
David Boroff - violin
Alison Holt - viola
Mason Lieberman - cello

My Little Fight

I woke up in Boston 
Late and hungover 
I crawled through Allston 
as it began to stir 
I crept down Harvard Avenue 
blinking fast and sweating beer 
The T came rolling past me 
wicked pissah to my ear 

We shared a pizza 
sat there for a while 
the sun was shining 
you had pesto in your smile 
til I get back to Harlem 
over land or over sea 
until I see you darling 
I will clutch that memory 

Load out from the show 
pack up the car 
pick up the phone 
til the lonely leaves my bones 
your voice alone can guide me 

Here I go now 
I'm on my way back home 
I'm like Julius Caesar 
within sight of Rome 
My Irish Cleopatra 
sitting in your golden throne 
a battered thrift shop armchair 
I carried on the subway home

3/1/17

My Irish Cleopatra

Demos #6

Saturday Sun (Nick Drake cover)

I'm Leaving You

There's a girl I used to know
Who promised that my troubles wouldn't hurt me
All she wanted was my happiness
And as long as I was truthful, she'd never desert me

I have a journal with her name jotted down
But couldn't tell you if you begged me
All that's left of her is scattered through my mind
Mismatched images and sentences she said

She said "open up to me
If you let me in I'll try and help you"
So she cracked me open and looked inside
But I am empty

A few years later, I was slipping
and as I fell, arms wrapped around me
She raised me up and held me close
It seemed my saviour had finally found me

She said "Close your eyes
and let me fill whatever's missing"
Well darling, look at me and tell me why
I am empty

I looked in a mirror but saw nothing inside
I guess I've always been a frame
Everything I've outlined has run away or died
When I cried out for company, only emptiness came

I met a girl last night
We spoke in whispers til the bar closed
As we were leaving, she asked my name
Pleased to meet you, I am empty

Joe Holt

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