Lady In Pink
by Nick O'Connor
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If I Tried
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Freeze Out
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My Debt Keep Comin' Back
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Don't Stray
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Where Does the Road End?
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New Bird's Flight
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Lady In Pink
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You Know I Love You
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Paper Thin Feelings
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Spiritual Seasonings
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Backslider
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O Lord
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about
On his solo debut, 21 year-old folk rocker Nick O’Connor and his band Pilgrim Road encapsulate numerous Americana music traditions from the opening notes of the Nashville tinged "If I Tried," to the anthemic arena pop of "Freeze Out," to the Dylan-esque harmonica and word play of "Where Does the Road End?” On one of the record's signature tracks, “Don’t Stray,” veteran Nashville producer Clark Hagan (who led Chet Atkins to a Grammy win) masterfully melds infectious pop melody, with folk sensibilities and pedal steel country flair. O’Connor’s ballads are beautiful, sincere and haunting; his rockers propelled with the fuel of incendiary lead guitar and soulful R&B sax. His poetry is as sensitive as it is thought provoking, as he explores the complexities of the modern world-view on the piano-driven “New Bird’s Flight,” and “Spiritual Seasonings,” with its acid jazz undertones. Lady In Pink regards today’s realities with brutal honesty, yet its search for purpose remains deeply rooted in the idealism of love, faith and hope.
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released 18 May 2010
Produced by Clark Hagan for Clark Hagan Productions
Produced by Clark Hagan for Clark Hagan Productions
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- Track Name: If I Tried
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I'm a gambler
My opponent is myself
There's loss when I win
But there's no gain when I loose
When I loose
I'm a lover
To love in closeness I am true
There's echos of ache
Within my joy it overwhelms
In you it dwells
So why can't we let this heal?
Before it dies
We'll shine in our poverty
I couldn't bury this if I tried
If I tried
You're a stampede
I can't keep up with your good will
But you're a lover too
You chose to brave this for honor's sake
Now things have changed
So why can't we let this heal?
Before it dies
We'll shine in our poverty
I couldn't bury this if I tried
If I tried
So why can't we let this heal?
Before it dies
We'll shine in our poverty
I couldn't bury this if I tried
If I tried - Track Name: Freeze Out
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Kingdom calling me from the mountain
Slavery infectin' the suburban clown town
Oh, and neither place is home
My Daddy thought he saw mercury risin'
As he worked night and day as a hobo supplyin' hopes
Not a place to go
In the distance you can see the trees bend backwards
Breakin' their trunks for a fresh piece of tender stone
For new trees to grow
And just like those trees my back is breakin'
For all that its worth I'll make it a damn good show
With my spirit flow
Oh I feel the rain
And I know the pain
And you know
Oh it's cold outside
It's a freeze out
Comin' from the earth with a fall of a petal
I swear to God oil crept up like the devil
Oh, but then I saw it was blood
So I wiped my head of the sweat and the dirt
Climbed the tallest mountain
Ripped my new shirt and froze
My boots covered in mud
Oh, I feel the rain
And I know the pain
And you know
Oh, it's cold outside
It's a freeze out
Oh, I feel the rain
And I know the pain
And you know
Oh, it's cold outside
It's a freeze out - Track Name: My Debt Keep Comin' Back
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Well there's radicals safe at home
When they belong out on the street
Cause we know for a fact
We're safe on our ass
When fangs replace our speech
Some people are born to walk away
From the strategy of the weak
Me I'll hold it, hate it, and own it
And blow it on the product of the meek
There's a scandal down the road
From the parody of relief
It seems to me our enemy
Is this fable out of reach
That there's only two sides
And don't cross that line
Or you'll be fined by a religious priest
And if your not satisfied to be alive
Take this pill to feel and see
Feel the wrath of the industries' path
My debt keep comin' back
Fear the rhythm on the radio
My debt keep comin' back
My debt keep starin' me in the face
Cause I'm caught on top wall
Standing tall, 'tween a brawl
Afraid stall cause I'll fall to one side
My debt keep comin' back
My debt keep comin' back
Well there's fresh dew at dawn
But disbelief snatched the scent away
It seems to me, greed has fought and squeezed
And it leaves my soul astray
You're either a hit or your not, the thief or you're robbed
You either wear a mask or you find your face
You either draw the line or cross it in good time
And you're a fool if your moneys on grace
Fear is dear to the demons near
My debt keep comin' back
Though we've learned to criticize
What we can't recognize
My faith keep comin' back
My faith keep bringin' me through the heat
Cause I'm hot in this call from my god
Fighting wrong, singin' songs
And I'll crawl to new life
My debt keep comin' back
My debt keep comin' back
I work too hard and that's a fact
My debt keep comin' back
Though my friends say I just need to relax
My debt keep comin' back
But I can't help but come out last
My debt keep comin' back
My debt keep comin' back
My debt keep comin' back
My debt keep comin' back - Track Name: Don't Stray
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Plowin' through these ruins
Sun blisterin' my back
Shielding my eyes from the horror
The compassion we lack
I see children playing make believe
Like they're millionaires
And their hands are clean
And I say to them, "Don't stray.”
Gliding 'bove the warfare
Higher than jets, but lower than god
Refusing the pollution
Accepting only honest air
I hear the chord of a choir bound together
Like there all one tribe who share this shelter
And I sing to them, “Don't stray.”
Don't stray from the agony
Don't rob yourself of that which sets you free
Don't stray from possibility
Cause that's worth more than evil's strategy
Don't stray from the balance beam
Don't stray from the vision tree
Don't mistake yourself as a victim
Of natures wrong
Don't stray
I was hiding in a village
I was running from the law
I could have been more discreet
But really, I didn't care if I was caught
When a woman's eyes took me by surprise
They pierced through space like a mothers cry
And with humane existence she preached to me,
“Keep movin', be strong, don't stray.”
Don't stray from the agony
Don't rob yourself of that which sets you free
Don't stray from possibility
Cause that's worth more than evil's strategy
Don't stray from the balance beam
Don't stray from the vision tree
Don't mistake yourself as a victim
Of natures wrong
Don't stray - Track Name: Where Does the Road End?
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Questions roam in the dark city street
Answers are a' growin’
Baby laughs in the summer heat
Youth's just a breath
Old man lyin' on the side of the road
Reflectin' on the words he been told
Ask me with the devil in his eyes,
“Where does the road end?”
Preacher man talkin' trash
While handin' out the word of God
Sinner stands in a bucket of lies
Asks me to define virtue
Questions roam in the dark city street
Baby laughs in the summer heat
One man asks with the devil by side,
“Where does the road end?”
Faith appears like a cancer growth
Well known, the newborn fear
Dead man wakes, his casket underground
Says, “For Heaven's sake!”
Atheist taking a survey on god, ask me with a grin,
“Can you define your faith in a poem?
Justify hunger by food that's stolen?”
Where does the road end?
Where does the road end?
Where does the road end?
Where the hell does it begin?
Where the hell does it begin?
Where the hell does it begin?
All in all, it's one big brawl
I guess the world's just mad
Still the only question in our mind is,
“Where does the road end?”
Where does the road end?
Where does the road end?
Where does the road end?
Where the hell does it begin?
Where the hell does it begin?
Where the hell does it begin?
The answer ain't with me my friend - Track Name: New Bird's Flight
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I smell the scent of the new day
But it wreaks of yesterday
Something was spied from the lookout tower
I think it was the new bird's flight
I see the youth of the new bird
Flying in her father's tradition
I feel the ax coming for thanksgiving dinner
Everyone else seems so good
Everyone else seems so good
If I had money
If I had things
If I had anything but dreams
Could I do more?
Call it world war 3
Call it world war 4
Call it anything you want
Still a mess on the floor
I breath the air with lungs of iron
Frost inhaled like cocaine
My wounds ache from the salt water season
I'd rather feel sick than numb
Let the new bird's song be sung
If I had money
If I had things
If I had anything but dreams
Could I do more?
Call it world war 3
Call it world war 4
Call it anything you want
Still a mess on the floor
If I had money
If I had things
If I had anything but dreams
Could I do more?
Call it world war 3
Call it world war 4
Call it anything you want
Still a mess on the floor
Call it world war 3
Call it world war 4
Call it anything you want
Still a mess on the floor
Call it world war 3
Call it world war 4
Call it anything you want
Call it Vietnam war
Call it world war 3
Call it world war 4
Call it anything you want
Still not my war - Track Name: Lady In Pink
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Nothing inside me is happy
Nothing inside me is clean
The righteous rooms filled with laughter
Patch up my evil room of haste
Deep inside of my breast
Is a feeling I cannot ignore
A fictional place that grows on my face
I miss the snake to fly like a hawk
I just wanna feel the selfish wind
Against my battle wounds
I just wanna sing a fortunate spell
Make a pretzel out a rod of steel
But something outside me is calling
And nothing inside has ignored
The righteous rooms filled with laughter
Lady in pink
Something inside me is helpless
Nothing inside me’s to blame
I’m fortunate to have an iphone of soul
Chase the silent ghost away
Nothing inside me has meaning
Something inside me has changed
I open my eyes to your heart full of lies
I don’t want to want to be saved
I just wanna be naked
Feel sensual and meaningless
And I want my story to be told
By the poor who have written of sex
But nothing inside of me is virgin
Though something inside of me is pure
I’m fortunate to have an iphone of soul
And a disease without any cure
Lady in pink
Above it all I feel passion
Beneath it all I feel fear
Outside of me are the colors you see
Inside I’m just the lady in pink
Cause deep down in my soul I’m not
healthy
Quite often I’m dead, not alive
My pleasure and pain are quite often the same
These buds in my ears can drive me to tears
The song in my head the joys that I’ve bled
The music can be precious yet cheap
The sound that I found
Takes these jewels off my crown
Lady in Pink - Track Name: You Know I Love You
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You know I love you
You know I love you
You know I love you
You know I love you
Oh, it's paradise it seems
The flavor that moves when you sing
Oh, I'm baptized in the taste
The subtle tones of your face
Oh, my hands are sharp and stretched
My hair's frozen, but I can't regret
The passion of my words
The language you deserve
You know I love you
You know I love you
You know I love you
You know I love you
Your discoveries overwhelm
My emotions to another realm
The doves in your eyes
Saves from soul from bein' blind
You know I love you
You know I love you
You know I love you
You know I love you
But there's treasons in your head
Angels kiss you as you lie in bed
The bruises that he left
Starved your spirit of the holy bread
And I'm with you all the time
Whether you're gone or just hard to find
And when your memories drown in tears
I'll build new ones with you near
You know I love you
You know I love you
You know I love you
You know I love you - Track Name: Paper Thin Feelings
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Breakin' my back for the track God's puttin' me on
And you try to steer me, frighten and cheer me apart
My faith is red, the hate you spread on my thoughts
Paper thin feelings that ain't too revealing in art
Paper thin feelings that ain't too revealing in art
Some people say that the grave is the end of it all
While others claim you can gain a new life as a king
Me I'm divorced of the force that man's tripping on
Paper thin feelings that ain't too revealing in a box
Paper thin feelings that ain't too revealing in a box
Our hearts are burned
For we've served the sun and the earth
But if you look past the stop signs
I know you will find peaceful words
Now we will prevail, we won't fail
We were born to seek grace
Paper thin feelings spiritual leanings, it's a fraud
Paper thin feelings spiritual leanings, it's a fraud
Can't you see the nations have all lost hope
Freedom is known as a sin when nothing else can win
Man is grown cold like a whore
Most are sold to the flesh
Emotions need devotions they can't be paper thin - Track Name: Spiritual Seasonings
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Spiritual seasonings
Caroling down the hall
Spiritual seasonings
Breaking the blind man's fall
Spiritual seasonings
Looking for a taste of purity in this smog
It's a spiritual war
Not over democracy
It's a spiritual war
Not over our vanity
Spiritual seasonings
Spiritual warfare
Some are made for war
While others are born for peace
Ooo, now its a suckin' up the money
Tryin' to move but stuck in honey
All the brilliance of your peace out
Ooo, now sendin' out a fallen message
Let it rot enough to numb this
For to never break this fiery fever
Oh, why can't we break this fiery fever?
Oh, for we live in a spiritual season
Everybody talkin' bout love
But no one seems to know
That love comes from the god above
Oh, God above rein on me
Oh, send me your presence let me see
The powerful gift of your message, the healing fire
Spiritual seasonings
Caroling down the hall
Spiritual seasonings
Breaking the blind man's fall
Spiritual seasonings
Looking for a taste of purity
In this corporate, morbid, scoring,
Soaring, plastic tobacco smog - Track Name: Backslider
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They call me the backslider baby
I backslide every moral that comes my way
And when there's a women in the road
I have to do my best not to trip over her play
I lost my cross in my sleep last night
But I found it in the progress and growth of my
hypocrisy
But it lost all its blood, it lost all its blood
They call me the backslider baby
I insult every preacher that tries to save me
I call out to the lord when my mind is sweating shackles
Cause to many humans don't move
To many humans aren't rude
I met a king of a land not far from here
He was wise beyond his years, but he couldn't speak
He'd write letters of change to his people
But his people couldn't read
Mama always told me, “Son,
your reckless but you ain't wrecked."
But Mama never knew the true shade of the blues
I asked the Lord for ground
What I got was a tight rope
It's just so easy to backslide
But it takes to much to take a dive
They call me the backslider baby
As if God don't hold me in the palm of his hand
I've ripped so much
I'm surprised this lake is shallow
I'll walk with this limp for the rest of my life
I knew a women who wore her faith on her shirts
And on her necklace and on her ring
She claimed she could be the voice of the people
Wearing her new and improved promise ring
Mama always told me, “Son,
your reckless but you ain't wrecked."
But Mama never knew the true shade of the blues
I asked the Lord for ground
What I got was a tight rope
It's just so easy to backslide - Track Name: O Lord
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O Lord
Take my hand as we walk in bare feet, out of here
And O Lord
Take this ring off my finger
And give it back to the ground
My thoughts are weary
And my mind has been put on ice
My feet are too bruised to fit in these shoes
And my body is far too thick
O Brother
Take my addictions
And throw them back to the mouth of hell
And O Brother
Pray with me that the Lord might have mercy
And set us free
My mouth is bleeding, and my eyes sting
I've talked and seen too much trash
My hands are dry, my skin is rash, and I stink
O Lord,
Please don't leave me in agony
And O Lord
I know your will is unstoppable now
Please take this gun out of my hand
Swipe the murder out of my eyes
I can't save the world, but I can save lives
