Go find a wife and have fish on Fridays
Let her feed you with her fork and make noises like an aeroplane
I bet she’s the one that can stop you smoking dope
Comb your hair when you’re drunk
And do the things that stung me too much
Cause I was never too good at holding you together
I recall a time of peace and prosperity
Clinging to your bestest, were you shocked when I messed this up?
No one to drive me around this town, holding me together
Honey, seeping dripping down the cracks
It’ll take me another month and a half to realise I can’t go back
Where is the rope? Try and tie it up
Where is the rope? Try and tie it up
Cause they never spoke of
Where is the rope?
They never spoke on how to hold your own, hold your own self, together
Cause I remember Christmas lunch, when I got back from Holland
We drank cheap champagne
And you asked me what the saddest thing I’d ever seen
And I said seeing my Mama in pain
She was just holding, holding herself together
I pay all due respects to the times that I was left
Unsheltered, I felt it, when I was disassociated
By your world, your darkness
I had to hold me and my selfishness, together
And I have travelled, I have simmered
I have travelled through chaos for a self
To hold it all, hold it all, hold it all, together
Released in 2001, “The Convincer” is a gentle gem in the Nick Lowe catalog; an anniversary edition provides opportunity for rediscovery. Bandcamp New & Notable Sep 20, 2021
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Nice material from this Austrailian singer-songwriter that reminds me of early Angel Olsen. Julia has been signed by Polyvinyl who will release her 2016 LP in the USA. Art Fin