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from Low Tide by Tracy Grammer

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    Four-color digi-pak with liner notes. LOW TIDE is Grammer's 11th album, but the first to feature original songs. Includes "Hole," the #1 most-played song on folk radio in February 2018, "Good Life," Grammer's tribute to her father and her most-requested song in live shows, and a reverent cover of Kate Bush's "Cloudbusting." LOW TIDE was the 9th most-played on folk radio for 2018, voted Best of 2018 by folkalley.com and Top Ten Album of the Year by Fish Records UK.

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© teresa m. grammer / tracy grammer music (BMI)

lyrics

oh andy i’m afraid i don’t know what i’m made of anymore
can’t make sense of all these shatterlings upon the bedroom floor
there’ll be no sleeping here, just blurs of sorrow through the open door
shoulda warned those boys about me, shoulda warned those boys

i never mean to but somehow i always spill the loving cup
it’s in some passionate exchange, it’s in the way i don’t let up
cannot trust myself in love, seems i always fuck it up
better warn those boys about me, you better warn those boys

’cause i bruise them, every one
there’s a hole in the palm of my love
i cut them; they run
through the hole in the palm of my love

my first love wouldn’t tell me why he changed his mind about our plans
some vicious word i spoke just burned the gold right off the wedding band
kept it to himself and now the ash is flying through my hands
shoulda warned that boy about me

and andy, i’m afraid this story’s gonna play out like the rest
i’ll take this broken bird and hold him to my hopeful, heaving chest
sing the mountain down while god remains oblique and unimpressed
shoulda warned that boy about me

’cause i bruise them, every one
there’s a hole in the palm of my love
i cut them; they run
through the hole in the palm of my love

should they lock me up, oh andy, would you throw away the key
let’s not talk about the girl i was and the wife i’ll never be
let ’em cut the sword from underneath my tongue and set me free
say something good about me, say something good

though i bruised them, every one
there’s a hole in the palm of my love
i cut them; they run
through the hole in the palm of my love
there’s a sword under my tongue
and a hole in the palm of my love

and andy, one more thing, i’m leaving this old violin to you
for all those easy nights and emails and the honest talking-to
for every lie i told i never played a note that wasn’t true
that’s one good thing about me, the one good thing

’cause i bruise them, every one
there’s a hole in the palm of my love
i cut them; they run
through the hole in the palm of my love
there’s a sword under my tongue
and a hole in the palm of my love
can’t save a single one
with a hole in the palm of my love

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written january 2014 in doylestown PA + shutesbury MA

credits

from Low Tide, released January 19, 2018
tg - acoustic guitar, violin, temple bell, wooden frog, tambourine, vocals
lorne entress - drums and percussion
jim henry - electric guitars, mandolin
paul kochanski - electric bass

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Tracy Grammer Greenfield, Massachusetts

Writer. Actor. Storyteller. Singer. Multi-instrumentalist. Former head cheerleader, now a fearless navigator of the heart.

“One of the finest pure musicians anywhere in folkdom.” - Boston Globe

“A brilliant artist.” - Joan Baez

“Her gifts as a musician are like that of a painter who is a master of chiaroscuro, offering light and shadow at every turn.“ - Mary Chapin Carpenter
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