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I'm not sure where I got the inspiration for these lyrics, but I think,
in spite of being fairly mellodramatic, they're some of the better ones
I've written. This song is one other Song Fight! folks remember and
mention to me, and JB had Puce do a cover of it a couple years back
for Cover Fight. Puce's cover was awesome, and tied with Frankie Big
Face's also excellent cover of "Violet Wants It Her Way" by Jon Eric. I
cringe now at the acoustic guitar which I recorded plugged directly into
the mixer, and at the crappy sounding drums. The singing is pretty good
considering this is only the fifth song I'd attempted to sing. I'm still
working on trying to be able to play this and sing it at the same time.
I gave it a shot at Song Fight! Live '06 in Santa Cruz. At Song Fight!
Live '05 in Boston Erin sang it for me, which was really nice.
Lyrics
another day of overcast pray for spring to come at last for something in this world to hold on to it seems a storm is coming down there's a sickness in the clouds and violet's got a thought she can't let go of chorus now the ice hangs heavy in the sky only violet sees how we'll survive somehow we will keep warm in the night we must do it, and we must do it violet's way now the mornings are all cold and i wake up feeling old the weeks are just a blur i can't keep track of i wonder where she's leading me through this desperate mystery and have i gone too far to turn back now chorus bridge and hope it gets us through the day 'cause hope is all we have to sustain us now everything else has run out and we need a saving grace violet wants it her way so that's the way it's gonna be there's somethin' 'bout that girl i can't say "no" to violet wants it her way so for me there's no escape soon there will be blood on my hands chorus
Etc.
Two tracks of acoustic doing the main finger picked part, two harmonizing lead
acoustic tracks, a slide electric guitar, MIDI upright bass and brush
drums and strings, and just one vocal track.