Name: Old Hard Story
Duration: P00H04M29S
Description: A couple finds change gets harder as they get older.

Old Hard Story

from Tragic Songs EP by John Holk & the Sequins

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A couple finds change gets harder as they get older.

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Getting on the highway makes me happy
I will take the wheel if you’ll let me
How was I to know you would upset me?
Sunshine on your face tells me the story
of lovers you erased and came before me
That’s the kind of man I am, I’m sorry

What’s it like being you?
Can you see what I’ve been through?
Does it seem like the past
is now slipping through your grasp?
On the way to the dump down the street
in the old hard story

Caught between the lines on the freeway
You can’t ever see me on a weekday
Tell me that sounds just like something he’d say
Jingle jangle mornings back in Frisco
All your favorite songs are rap and disco
You go north and I’ll go back to Reno

What’s it like being you?
Can you see what I’ve been through?
Does it seem like the past
is now slipping through your grasp?
On the way to the dump down the street
past the old hard story

Interlude

What’s it like being you?
Can you see what I’ve been through?
Does it seem like the past
is now slipping through your grasp?
On the way to the dump down the street
in the old hard story
On the way to the dump down the street
in the old hard story
On the way to the dump down the street
in the old hard story

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from Tragic Songs EP, track released February 13, 2024
Music and lyrics: John Holkeboer, Hole-Key Music, BMI
Vocals: John Holkeboer, Isabel Nelson-Mervak, Bob Mervak
Instruments: Todd Glass, John Holkeboer, Alex Trajano
Studio: Thrilla Park, St Clair Shores, MI
Recorded & mixed by Alex Trajano
(c) 2024

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John Holk & the Sequins Ann Arbor, Michigan

John Holk writes original songs in the honky tonk, power pop, jangle-psych vein. He is a native of Ann Arbor, MI.

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