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What You Tried to Hold

from A Town Called Hesitation by Jack Hotel

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lyrics

With the way that people look at you at midnight
And the way the sidewalk smells in rain
I start thinking I might walk back to Nebraska
Got a wildfire burning in my brain

I wonder if your brother still hates me
If your family would know me by my face
I heard that your sister has a baby
I tried to write but threw the card away

'Cause something always happens in a story
Where I can't tell the middle from the end
Something always happens after midnight
Where you can't tell a lover from a friend

You have a tongue in silver tones a-ringin'
And a back that bends like it was liquid gold
After midnight when wake from what you're dreamin'
Your hands just slip through what they tried to hold

Got a car on blocks at George and Ruby's
I can come and get it anytime I like
Ruby makes my favorite cup of coffee
With cream and sugar and a cube of ice

The ice is so the coffee's cool for drinkin'
So the bitter juice does not burn your tongue
Cream and sugar keep you in my thinkin'
Keep the midnight out of my song

You have a tongue in silver tones a-ringin'
And a back that bends like it was liquid gold
After midnight when wake from what you're dreamin'
Your hands just slip through what they tried to hold

You have a tongue in silver tones a-ringin'
And a back that bends like it was liquid gold
After midnight when wake from what you're dreamin'
Your hands just slip through what they tried to hold

credits

from A Town Called Hesitation, released June 27, 2020
Günter Voelker - guitar, vocal
Kim Taruc- upright
Joe Salvati - dobro
Josh Rector - violin
featuring
Sas Liska - vocal

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Jack Hotel Lincoln, Nebraska

Jack Hotel contains multitudes. A listen to their discography reveals a range that encompasses Ry Cooder and Leo Kottke, Gillian Welch and Townes Van Zandt, Mississippi John Hurt and Etta Baker — but this band is no mere product of its influences. Since their start in 2012, Jack Hotel has proven itself one of the best, and most original, folk acts in the midwest. ... more

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