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Strings
03:53
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Bm G
I’m on my last set of strings
G Bm
Pulled them straight, wound them up and let them sing
C G Bm
They lie like lovers vibrating never touching
G
Song after song they get weakened
Bm Bm
Until they’re pulled too far, pushed too long
Am C G
And they break, under the weight of their final song
Am C
On the floor over there all wound in bronze
G Bm
played a love removed that still stayed strong
Am G
After too many nights cold and alone
Bm C
It broke on the bridge of the lonesome song
Am C
After time and time and time again
G Bm
The second string got tired of trying
Am G
After pleading for a man that was left behind
Bm C
It broke a hole in the chord of his desperate crying
Refrain
Am C
An anthem with the highest refrain
G Bm
passion of youth forever remain
Am G
And shrill was the sound of that thunderous chord
Bm C
snapped in the sweat of the crowd wanting more
Am C
A love song drifts on the quiet of night
G Bm
While lovers bask in the softening light
Am G
As they wind themselves like so many refrains
Bm C
Unbroken silence is all that remains
Am C
In a quiet chord
G Bm
A choir sang that would please the lord
Am G
But before their songs could rise together
Bm C
The lowest string was silenced forever
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2. |
Carolina
03:39
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Verse Bm | | | E | | | F#m | | | | | | |
Chorus D | | | E | | | F#m | | | x2
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That summer was like gin and rain
I met you in a house of pain
I'd save you from the wet and empty streets
You told me that I had a style
And would I waste away a while
A song a dream a heart what would it be?
For three long years we tempted fate
The clock would wind and fill our plate
Embracing every crutch and vice you’d bring
Every taste was bitter sweet
The whole charade felt so complete
Sinking into scenery that we made
-Refrain-
Oh Carolina
Where are you bringing me tonight?
Oh Carolina
Where are you bringing me tonight?
Now I wake up feeling scared
From feelings that you put in there
You never used to think that much of me
Now I’m hell bent on losing you
So this is what I’ve got to do
Chasing down this madness that we sing
refrain
One more drink and one more show
One more thing that I can’t know
One more call that rings and rings
One more song that never sings
I’m tearing down old highway 1
in the movies I would have a gun
Halfway from Gatineau to Montmagny
Oh Carolina Where are you
Bringing me tonight?
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3. |
Bad Boy
04:37
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I've been a bad boy their going to send me off to prison
We better figure just what it is that we've been missing
And I'd put it on my tab but I've got no credit left
My pictures on the wall and there's a noose around my neck
Refrain
I need to settle my accounts
Just tell me what I owe
I'm looking for the ways I need to come clean before I go
And if you hold my hand I promise that I'd never let you down
And if you hold my hand You'd never see things you don't need to see
So tell me if you'll help me to come Clean
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I want to settle my accounts take the last train out of town
find a place out by the ocean where i can watch the sun go down
Oh fire I'd like to take you with me,we would burn into the night
we'd greet the morning sunshine, rage against the dying light
Refrain
Time's one thing I'm short of and I'm running low on cash
I've got love that's like the ocean and style that's bright and brash
We could do it like the movies and drive towards the sky
I think they're closing in now there's not much time to try
Refrain
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4. |
Secrets
06:11
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I’ve had secrets all my life
Some of them wrong
And some of them right
What about you
Will I laugh or will I weep
will I stumble or will I leap
what will I do?
what will I do?
I caught a standby ticket
to the farthest place away
Asked around and tracked you down
I had something left to say
And words don’t often fail me
Except when I’m with you
When my head is in another place
And my body’s next to you
Driving in the night-time
It gives me space to think
When there’s no wine and only time
And I’m trying not to sink
Further into where I know
I shouldn’t go with you
So I pull into at a rest-stop
Instead of driving through
Why is it so hard to pull this line?
Why is it so hard to pull this line?
Why is it so hard to pull
Why is it so hard to pull
Why is it so blessed hard
to pull this thorny line?
Somehow I get this feeling
that things will turn out right
So I turn down the radio
And fumble for the light
My eyes are weighed down heavy
And my voice is sounding frail
But I still need to tell you
My coffin’s short some nails
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5. |
Head Like Iron
04:06
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Through the stage lights and shadows that hung in the room
Saw your lips move to my song and my song moved to you
I was two thousand miles from anywhere I thought you'd want to be
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CHORUS
My head feels like Iron
I had a bad day
I need to write another line
But I need something to say
Took the train down to meet you
But spent the week in my hotel
And now I'm sick and I miss you my love
Yea I'm sick and I miss you my love
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We stayed up all night getting lonely you and me
Talked our way through the dark ignoring something on TV
And I tried and I tried and I tried to get through to you
CHORUS
I don't think I've slept since I saw you walk away
I couldn't find the meaning then I’ve got no more cards to play
But I'm rolling the dice like it'll pay for my last breath
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6. |
Steel
03:46
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Keep on going to that same old bar
Every day at three, maybe just one
Same place where I met my old lady
When the money was flush and booze and girls were fun
But she's 5 years my ex and the place changed hands
The reasons are gone and the signs faded out
I guess I keep hoping for one last chance to finally hold my head up
Finally hold my head up and
Steel, it feels like steel
It's fired and forged and hard and cold and real
It doesn't remind me of all that it was
It's a hell of a backwards deal
And steel, it feels like steel
Streets full of holes from the trucks pulling out
Leaving bones where there used to be buildings
Sign says for lease there's a lineup outside
Payday loans that need to be services
Art's the new steel can't open old mills
My boots in the closet nothing can stop it
Something to make I'm good with my hands
I don't want to Take
I'm a man but
Steel, it feels like steel
It's fired and forged and hard and cold and real
It doesn't remind me of all that it was
It's a hell of a backwards deal
And steel, it feels like steel
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7. |
Give Me Something
03:07
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I heard I could use some healing
give me something to make me well
I've got questions I can't answer
give me something that I can tell
You told me that we were the winners
give me something that I can spend
You told me that there were no answers
give me something that tells me when
I've got you to hold close
and some time to let go
and don't want to feel
what I never should know
and I want to live
and I don't want to lie
give me something--------
to make it all worth while
The streets of Yorkville are cold now
and I'm walking away from the town
I've got people that I need to contact
Give me something to track them down
If everything isn't for pleasure
If everything good comes with pain
If you and I are not brothers
Give me something to hide all the shame
I've got you to hold close
and some time to let go
and don't want to feel
what I never should know
and I want to live
and I don't want to lie
give me something--------
to make it all worth while
I remember when we were both children
And all we could do was sing
In the morning we'd wake with the sunrise
In the evening we gently would fade
Today I was given to envy
Surrounded and put in this land
Give me something that I can return to
Give me something on which I can stand
I've got you to hold close
and some time to let go
and don't want to feel
what I never should know
and I want to live
and I don't want to lie
give me something--------
to make it all worth while
Where are you
I can't see
I need to hear
I need to be
So call my name
Call out loud
Pleaaassseeeee
Give something to me
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8. |
I Saw The Stars
04:53
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I saw the stars, for the first time in the city
With the phosphorus glow and the need down below
For the safety from the darkness of the life
It was the first time and it shattered like plaster
You can't bet all your chips on the things we won't miss tonight
I saw the fire, pouring out of the sunrise
Burning everything down that was pinned to the ground
From the fear of me being set free
It was the first time and it sparkled like water
You can't bet all your chips on the way that we'll kiss tonight
I had the line, on the crime of the decade
Painstakingly planned to the ounce and the man
Stealing your heart far away
You read my body you were faster and smarter
and I lost all my chips on the feel of your lips when you smiled
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9. |
Running
05:27
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100 miles from Sault Ste. Marie,
I kind of wonder where I'm supposed to be
All I love in the rear view mirror
I wind my car around Lake Superior
And I'm running
Stop my car just to pick up some gas
Can’t remember when I talked to you last
I’ve got miles to go before I get to sleep
The hills are higher but I'm getting deep
And I'm running
Refrain
The great lake shoreline and the north's mighty shield
Miles of prairies and the Rockies foothills
Most recent entry in the book of young men
That go so far just to see where they stand
Passing signs with names in a blur
Trees and shadows look the same anymore
Silent stars light the sky like a dream
Constellations unlike ever seen
And I'm running
Piles of stones left behind long ago
A younger man than you likely know
Once dreamed of fortune or what he might be
Little road signs to guide me
Running from the darkness
Running from the sea
Running from some fear and possibility
Running to a friend
Running from my home
Running to a love cause I can’t stand to be alone
Refrain
I’m Runnin
I’m Runnin
I’m Runnin
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10. |
She
05:38
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She
She writes about loving
She writes about pain
She writes about sinning
She swears she’ll never sin again
She writes about journeys
She writes about being free
She writes about her dead end job
And the child she’ll never see
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Refrain
She’s amused to see me scribbling
Catching truth on a napkin stain
She’s laughing at my frailty
She throws clauses at my pain
And she knows that in the end
I’m going to try again
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She writes about the rapist
She writes about gold
She writes about the loving
She writes about the old
She writes about her mother
She writes about her god
She writes about her fear at night
When she goes out for a walk
Refrain
She writes about “I love you”
She writes about “Set me free”
She writes about the danger
She can tell nobody sees
She writes about mistakes
Places she was afraid
She writes about the dust balls
That collect around her bed
She writes about her teacher
She writes about his wife
She writes about her innocence
She applies heat to the knife
She writes about body smells
From underneath the door
She tells the waiter go away
She asks the bartender for more
Refrain
She expresses her life in symbols
Her life’s a ritual
She takes wine with her morning tea
There’s bread in the bowl
She’s circumcised and actualized
Satori is her whole
She’s a tiny little baby
And yet she’s far too old
She objects to mercy killing
She laced the food with drugs
She took one of the holy vows
But she forgot which one it was
Her doors are all unlocked,
But the closets all have keys
I wonder if I’m dreaming her
Or if she is dreaming me
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Keith Jolie Toronto, Ontario
Blues and roots inspired
City-Folker
Background
Keith started singing in music bars in the Brantford area in the 1990s. through a residency at punk music venue The Turnaround,and solo gigs with bigger bands he figured out how to earn the attention of an audience.
Continuing to write, record and perform and is now living in Hamilton. His latest album "twenty three" is due out late 2017.
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