Sunday, August 21, 2016

Wonderful new song -- Michael Howard's "She Holds On"

Love the lyrics of "She Holds On" -- Michael Howard has a way with words.

Here's a Jeff Burger review of Michael Howard's new CD "Gasoline Dream" featuring "She Holds On"



"She had heart despite the townsfolk, she had heart despite the town 
And she holds on until the holiness departs 

Found her brother for the winter, took the money to his home 
There was hardly fitting music for the scene 
He took a fall in London, now there’s no way to get around
And he lives off of the demons of the mind 
And she holds on until the holiness departs 

She went back to her working, publishing a magazine 
The snowstorm stirring up a fantastic hell 
The whiskey in her mug took to the brim and she is impotent 
She drank with ragged shadows of herself 
And she holds on until the holiness departs 
She holds on ‘till the holiness departs 

The devil’s kiss was dimly lit when it finally arrived 
A dark and hundred miles overground 
The spring was spitting hard when it came down from the mount 
And said that winter is followed by god. By god. 

She fell into mohair sweaters, swinging coats in a blinding rage 
Ripping branches, thudding trees like cannonballs 
She is stranded in her tower, a screaming cinderella 
And her voice could light a candle in the stars 
She holds on until the holiness departs 
She holds on till the holiness departs 
She holds on until the holiness departs 

She had heart despite the townsfolk, she had heart despite the town 
And she holds on until the holiness departs"

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