When I moved to Austin from San Francisco, I guess I was pretty exhausted, because I found myself unable to launch back into the music career right away. I had a very long dry spell of not being able to conjure up the muse and then I realized that what I needed to write about was the very thing that was haunting me.
lyrics
COLD STRINGS
This old guitar is like a stranger in my arms
It’s all dusty and I fear it hates me so
The strings are black and the wood it feels cold
As I try to sing a song from long ago
Sometimes a year will swallow you whole
Make you forget all the things you were bound to
Sometimes a year will forgive and forget
Give you love and direction and astound you
Cold Strings, cold, cold heart
You should have broken by now
You keep asking for something new
But the pen won’t move and the paper’s white as snow
My soul is frozen and my heart is blue
And lately, that’s all I know
Sometimes a dream, well it’s only a dream,
When you wake you forget all of it’s wonder
Sometimes a dream is all that you need
To get you up from that sleep that you’ve been under
Cold Strings, cold, cold heart
You should have broken by now
When I go down, I guess you go down with me
Although I try to keep you high
You give me words of wisdom
That I wish I could remember
When I’m hating myself and I don’t know why
Cold Strings, cold, cold heart
You should have broken by now
credits
from THIN LINE,
track released March 25, 2009
Noëlle Hampton… Acoustic Guitar/ Vocals
André Moran: Electric Guitar
Rick Richards: Drums
Michael Godwin: Bass
Mark Hallman: B3
Larkin Gayl: Backing Vocal
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