Entries tagged with “dirty fingernails” from smudie

OrangeColumbo: rock/pop with a distinct air of Americana

I'm currently working with OrangeColumbo on putting together a demo that a couple of record labels have expressed serious interest in hearing. We've already written half a dozen tracks together, and are putting the finishing touches to a few more.

Pull The Stars Down was one of the first lyrics I wrote for him. It came to me more or less in one go, while I was drugged up on penicillin to treat a bout of pneumonia. Dirty Fingernails took a little longer.

• Dirty Fingernails
• Pull The Stars Down

I'm looking at the old man's
dirty fingernails;
yellow, like the coward
I have always been.

sure leaves traces.
Not just on your hands,
in other places,
other places.

I'm looking at the old man's
dirty fingernails.
They're yellow, like the coward
I have always been.

A father and a son.
A sea of silence.
Smoke instead of words.
The pride we feel,
we both hide it.

I'm looking at the old man's
dirty fingernails.
They're yellow, like the coward
I, I have always been.

A father and a son.
A sea of silence.
Smoke instead of words.
The pride we feel,
we both hide it.
We both hide it
and hide behind it.

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This song is performed by OrangeColumbo.