Great song and vocal. The person who recorded and mixed this did a great job, too.

I'd love to see the lyrics to this one! Any chance you've posted them anywhere?

♥♥♥♥♥♥ Luv the part around the 3 minute mark... reminiscent of the bridge in "In My Life" (Beatles). Rock on, Your Majesty  

asombroso acompañamiento con la guitarra y una voz excelente

you had the postal service 
you had the telephone wire
there were passenger pigeons 
to take your words up higher

there were walkie talkies 
fiber optic repeat
there were infinite channels 
between you and me

it don’t matter pretty baby
that it was a note upon your door
it don’t matter how you said it
you don’t love me no more
you don’t love me no more
you don’t love me no more

now i could hijack the airwaves
to say i want you back 
i could put us in a novel
and rewrite the past

i could string up the words
behind a long aeroplane
and wait for your answer 
to come back again

but it don’t matter pretty baby
if i found the words i was looking for
it don’t matter how i say it
cause you don’t love me no more

i could hire a man
to swim across the sea 
plant a little kiss
on your cheek for me

i could write you a letter
and cross all my tees
and send it in the belly of a great submarine

but it don’t matter pretty baby
if my words never reach the shore
it don’t matter how i say it
you don’t love me no more

i could put a lonely billboard 
on every city road
or have the stars blotted out 
in a brilliant Morse code

wouldn’t make no difference pretty baby
you don’t love me no more
it don’t matter pretty baby
you don’t love me no more
you don’t love me no more
you don’t love me no more

Morse Code

From Larkin Poe's first full-length album, "KIN"

Larkin Poe - Crown Of Fire

2015 Team Love Records. Release date Feb 24, 2015
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The Lowest Pair-Rosie

This song I wrote way back in 1999 and Sharri once again sang it to perfection! I sang it with her in some sections and I regret doing that today! Should have let her sing it by herself. It was recorded on my old 8-track tape recorder so the sound quality is a bit poor, so sorry about that! The video, however, is new and just recently finished it posted on YouTube - https://youtu.be/OQiLR-40ue8
      The song is about a couple breaking up and the man wishing that his woman would STAY and not leave him. A very common story and one that I went through myself. This song was written for a man to sing but Sharri sang it so well, I had to let her have it! I hope everyone enjoys it and I hope everyone is having a wonderful summer! Cheers!🥂

“STAY”

YOUR LOVE WAS NOT STRONG ENOUGH,      
MY LOVE WAS TOO STRONG,      
YOUR STAY WAS NOT LONG ENOUGH,        
I'M STILL HOLDING ON,                   
IT'S KIND OF IRONIC,            
HOW WE'RE NOW AND WE WERE THEN,      
YOU EMBRACED LOVE TOO QUICKLY,      
AND NOW I CAN'T LET IT END,

YOU BLAME YOURSELF FOR HURTING ME,      
BUT THE FAULT WAS HALF MINE,       
YOU BLAME YOURSELF FOR DESERTING ME,       
IT WAS JUST A MATTER OF TIME,      
I DIDN'T PAY ATTENTION,      
TO YOUR WANTS, YOUR THOUGHTS, YOUR NEEDS,      
NOW YOU'VE LEFT WITH MY HEART,      
AND I'M LEFT WITH MEMORIES,
THE GUILT IS HANGING OVER ME,           
LIKE A HAUNTING MELODY,           
BURNED INSIDE MY MEMORY,             
HELP ME FIND A WAY,           
TO MAKE YOU STAY,
     
YOU FELT THERE WAS NO FUTURE,      
I SAW OUR FUTURE SET,       
YOU SAW ME AS A LOSER,      
I SAW YOU AS THE BEST,          
I WAS SO CONTENDED,      
JUST TO HAVE YOU HERE WITH ME,      
BUT TRUE LOVE COULDN'T KEEP YOU HERE,      
INSTEAD IT SET YOU FREE,
      
THE GUILT IS HANGING OVER ME,           
LIKE A HAUNTING MELODY,           
BURNED INSIDE MY MEMORY,             
HELP ME FIND A WAY,           
TO MAKE YOU STAY,           
HELP ME FIND A WAY,           
TO MAKE YOU STAY,           
TO MAKE YOU STAY,            
STAY.
                              
BY JIM VALDES © 1999

SHARRI

"STAY" (Feat. Vocals By Sharri)

From the album Tomorrow Is My Turn

This is one of many African-American spirituals that have been set for classical voice and piano – this one was arranged by the celebrated black tenor Roland Hayes. I was captivated by Florence Quivar’s rendition of it and brought it to the session – the challenge was to translate this spiritual through a classical lens back to the vernacular side. Gabe Witcher took the original Hayes arrangement and chordal structure and broke it down between guitar, banjo, and double bass, and I strove to find a timbre that fit in.

Tomorrow Is My Turn

Round About the Mountain

The Northern South, Vol. 1

My Babe

Agnostic Hymns & Stoner Fables is Todd Snider’s inspirational album.

“I want to inspire people,” Snider says. “I want to inspire them to leave home, to do things traditionally considered wrong. If you listen to my record and vandalize your school, godspeed. If you listen to my record and punch your stepdad, thank you, you’ve made me feel better about
what I do. I don’t believe in the American dream, and family values can suck my asshole’s balls.”

Snider says this while smiling, because he says most things while smiling, because he knows family values are unlikely to do such a thing, and because he’s on the happy back end of happy hour at a favorite East Nashville bar. He’s laughing but not necessarily kidding, and Agnostic
Hymns & Stoner Fables is anything but a nice, folk/Americana troubadour album. It’s not a nice anything.

It is jagged, leering, lurching and howling, and filled with unhappy endings both experienced and intimated: “It ain’t the despair that gets you, it’s the hope,” he sings in the album-closer, “Big Finish.” That Agnostic Hymns & Stoner Fables is also roaringly funny is tribute to Snider’s unique sensibilities, and to his standing as what Rolling Stone magazine calls “America’s sharpest musical storyteller.” Anguish without laughter is boring, like intensive care without morphine, and Snider has never been within 100 miles of boring. Also, he didn’t earn the
attention, friendship and fandom of American musical giants like Kris Kristofferson and John Prine by writing mopey protest songs.

Anyway, these aren’t protest songs. They’re inspirational. We’ve covered that already, right? It’s populated mostly by losers in the midst of losing, with a couple of spotlight appearances from the humbly anointed 1 percent. The result is something disconcerting, cracked and wholly original. It’s something that stands apart from the music of Snider’s heroes, and from Snider’s own, much-celebrated past. Agnostic Hymns & Stoner Fables is Snider’s 12th album (14th, if we count a “best of” set and a collection of B-sides and demos.

Snider doesn’t talk around the vulnerable part, or the angry part, or the part about how everything we’re taught about goodness and righteousness and capitalism, about God and family values winds up exploding into violence and chaos, wonder and longing. He doesn’t talk around how the whole deal is enough to make you vandalize your school, punch your stepdad, or make lewd suggestions as to just what family values might do in their spare time. And he doesn’t talk around the part about how he doesn’t know any more than you do about any of these things, or the part about how he might be wrong. It’s just that nothing has been delivered yet, nothing revealed. It is, as he sings, too soon to tell.

Here are 10 new songs for the waiting room. They’re here to inspire.

06 In Between Jobs

Introducing new song "Pretty Lie" off of the full length album coming out in September. 


We started out with plans
and blueprints in our hands
we were gonna build a perfect love
but we got tangled in the wire
and our feet just got so tired
and so we were this close to giving up

And now you got this secret 
and I really hope you keep it
‘cause you know how I love the mystery
you’re always coming late
from work every day
and I can tell by the way you look at me
Oh, I see that

My, my, my what a pretty lie
just don’t stop now
will you take your time?
‘Cause I like the way you look 
when you don’t think I know what you do
but I do
And oh sweet lord, what a dreadful bore
would my life be without your sweet whore
and the fiction of our love
has always been enough for me it seems

I think that I’m addicted 
to your artificial kisses
and oh I love the nervous way you stand
And all that added warmth 
when you hold me in your arms
even though the heat is secondhand

‘Cause you look so good, you look so new
in those clothes I didn’t buy for you
and oh the way you lie, it drives me mad
I’ve got a right to jealousy 
and really this should bother me
but I don’t care, and you know I never have
I never have, ‘cause

My, my, my what a pretty lie
just don’t stop now
will you take your time?
‘Cause I like the way you look 
when you don’t think I know what you do
but I do
And oh sweet lord, what a dreadful bore
would my life be without your sweet whore
and the fiction of our love
has always been enough for me it seems

Let’s rip some pages from these books
and never take a second look
string up all our facts upon a stake
and we will torch it through and through
and we will watch the glaring truth
shrivel up and wither in the flames

And then we’ll set the fiction free
running rampant in the streets
the sky will glow with all our brilliant lies
Oh, and maybe then I’ll see
the truth it doesn’t bother me
and I will get to sleep again tonight
that’s right

My, my, my what a pretty lie
No I won’t stop now, 
I’ll just take my time cause I
I like the way I look 
when nothing seems to bother me
‘cause I see that
Oh hot damn, what a fool I am
just to play it cool 
when it’s everything
and the fiction of our love
has never been enough for me, I see

Pretty Lie

Quaker City Night Hawks
HONCHO

Credits:
Released 15 February 2013
Produced by Matthew Smith, Grant Jackson Wilborn and Quaker City Night Hawks

Recorded at January Studios, Dallas, TX.
Mixed at The Doghouse, Hollywood, CA.
Mastered at Pitchfork Sound, Anahuac, TX.

All songs performed by Quaker City Night Hawks
Additional keys performed by Jon Gries

Artwork and Layout by Pussyhouse Propaganda

©2013 Magnolia Records 

Train Rolled Home

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