Friday, June 25, 2010

'Hold On To That Feeling' - Carrie Rodriguez

To whoever asked for it, this is one lyric that I can do. The song is 'El Salvador', from her 2008 album 'She Ain't Me'. 


El Salvador
Got your letter from El Salvador
I wish you wrote just a little more
But I guess I'm really missing you today
I know words can mean so much
But I don't need what I can't touch
Been a month tomorrow since you went away
It's been a month tomorrow since you went away
I keep waiting, so long
I've been waiting, too long
So many miles between us
We gotta hold on to that feeling
And get on home
You better get on home
I know you got a job to do
But I can't live my life for you
And today I look much older than I should
I think I might just waste away
If I don't see your pretty face today
I'd swim across that ocean if I could
I'd swim across that ocean if I could
I keep waiting, so long
I've been waiting, too long
So many miles between us
We gotta hold on to that feeling
And get on home
You better get on home
Now you're off to Panama
Just one more place I never saw
While I sit at home wishing you were here
Without you I feel incomplete
Though I'm not the neediest girl you'll meet
But today I cannot help but shed a tear
Today I cannot help but shed a tear
Today I cannot help but shed a tear
So many miles between us
We gotta hold on to that feeling
So many miles between us
We gotta hold on to that feeling


This is a song from an amazingly good, but largely ignored if perhaps only in the UK, album and artist. I have mentioned this album before, including some lyrics - 'Infinite Night' and 'Let Me In':
http://rpgreenhalgh.blogspot.com/2008/09/lets-fall-back-in-love.html


The new album that I have not heard as yet, but which I really want, is 'Love and Circumstance' (2010).


This is the track listing for it:

1. Big Love
2. Wide River to Cross (feat. Buddy Miller)
3. When I Heard Gypsy Davy Sing
4. Eyes on the Prize
5. Steal Your Love (feat. Bill Frisell)
6. Waltzing's For Dreamers
7. I'm Not for Love (feat. Bill Frisell)
8. I Made a Lover's Prayer (feat. Bill Frisell)
9. I Started Loving You Again (feat. Buddy Miller)
10. Rex's Blues
11. I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry (feat. Bill Frisell)
12. La Puñalada Trapera

4 comments:

Carrie Rodriguez said...
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ElenaMargaritaZapata said...

thanks for the lyrics!! i've been looking online forever! this is beautiful

Richard G said...

Thank you for your kind comments. It is exactly the little things like this that make it all worthwhile.

Richard