Let The Waves Break

from A New Kind Of Loneliness by Michael Weston King

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featuring Mike Cosgrave on piano and accordion

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She was standing on the stairs
When the tears started falling
She was screaming his name,
But he couldn’t hear her calling
In three short years
She had grown so much older
Now all he could see
Was the shaking of he shoulders

He could have held out his arms
And saved her there
But something changed,
Something scared
So he just let her slip down into the lake
As the waves break........
Around her face, around her face

There’s a picture in his case
Taken some years ago
He draws in the lines
He never knew how they would show
Those lines say it all
Of the piano and the loss
the starting lines
the finishing lines
and the battle line crossed

Now that girl in the frame
is in need of escape
Surrounded by gilt,
cardboard and paste
Dreaming of Mary and the Mexican days
She lets the waves break.......
Around her face, around her face
She lets the waves break around her face

These days he’s away,
more than he’s at home
He hates his hair, his hands, his face,
and his eyes when they roam
But he is all that’s left,
of the man she adored
When the camera’s rolled,
and that moment was captured for evermore

Now something’s gone,
something’s changed
They will never feel that way again
She can just see his outline
through a watery haze.
As the waves break.....
Around her face, around her face
As the waves break around her face

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from A New Kind Of Loneliness, released April 10, 2020

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Michael Weston King Montgomery, UK

Former leader of Alt. Country pioneers, The Good Sons, 12 years a solo artist and currently 1/2 of award winning country soul duo My Darling Clementine.

"King has a voice part Nashville balladeer and part Alt Country hero, a cross between Nick Cave and Rodney Crowell"
- The Independent ... more

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