FAWM: "You're Dead To Me"

You're Dead To Me

1 week ago by @hamiltonpoolhall

You're Dead To Me

hamiltonpoolhall

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Liner Notes

#acousticonetake #blues

This one might not be everyone's jam. But then, what is?

Started a second take to fix a few things and then decided the first take was close enough.

Lyrics

Maybe you’re up in some tower
Maybe you’re behind a cloud
Maybe I’m too blind to see it
Or I’ve always been too proud

But you’re dead to me
You’re dead to me
You’re dead to me

If your word is in the air
Or on the pages of a book
Maybe it’s the way I listen
Or I don’t know how to look

But you’re dead to me
You’re dead to me
You’re dead to me

Where are you when we’re in trouble
Who puts out the fires that burn
or searches for us in the rubble
Maybe you could take a turn

Maybe none of this has turned out
Quite the way that you had planned
If you’re just as disappointed
As we are, I can understand

But you’re dead to me
You’re dead to me
You’re dead to me

Comments

@jinx 1w

Absolutely loving this guitar sound, and what a great bluesy groove you've got going here. The lyric is so brilliantly subtle that I didn't even "get it" until I read the other comments, then I re-read the lyric and was like "oh... that's genius."

@kosch 1w

Digging this - guitar play if phenomenal - your voice it dead on perfect for this type of tune. Lyrics flow like a river.

@fearlessflight2014 1w

Ah this is searing and blunt in its understated lazy way!! What a way to deliver a point of view! Very groove-tastic.

@pippa 1w

I love that guitar picking! And I'm with you on the sentiment too.

@paulhenry 1w

Hey, HPH, warts aside, you got a prince of a frog here. Can I cover this?

@bethdesombre 1w

There's some nice ambiguity ("Maybe it’s the way I listen/ Or I don’t know how to look") hanging out there amidst the excellent picking. I'm on your side in this one -- and even with potential disappointment from the other party there's no recovery. (I like the finality of that last picked string.)

@philnorman 1w

If it's not some people's jam, the good news is they have to forgive you.

I think this is an interesting balance of subtlety and too-on-the-nose. Like, I suspect the jam-haters would have this slide right over their heads like butter on bread.

Do not read until March: last stanza, I think you could play with the timing/phrasing of the last lines. As in bring "as we are" up to the line above. "If you're just as disappointed as we are / .... I can understand" could hit a slanty internal rhyme with "turned out" at the beginning of the stanza...

@richaaaay 1w

Love this, although there is very little that you do that I don't love. Nice vox delivery, particularly those couple of times when you hit those high notes (on Maybe and then on You're). Those moments were a surprise and treats at that...Always just dig'n all those funky things you do on your axe. Lyrically, I jam with this. It is indeed a clever way to tell your tale.

@andrewjtaylor 1w

Very clever exploration of the nuances of belief. A close enough reading reveals the thinly(?) veiled subject matter. Fitting style of music for this, too. That bass line got stuck in my head and manifested itself in hummery a few moments after leaving the comment. :)