Billy Strings - Secrets (Official Audio)

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“Secrets” - from Billy Strings newest album Renewal, available everywhere now!

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About BILLY STRINGS:

Michigan-born and now Nashville-based, Billy Strings is a GRAMMY Award-winning singer, songwriter and musician, who arrived on the scene as “one of string music’s most dynamic young stars” (Rolling Stone). Strings is in the midst of a triumphant year after winning Best Bluegrass Album at the 63rd GRAMMY Awards for his critically acclaimed record, Home. Produced by Glenn Brown, the record also led Strings to top Billboard’s 2020 year-end charts in both Bluegrass categories—Top Bluegrass Artists and Top Bluegrass Albums—and continues to receive widespread critical acclaim. Of the release, The Associated Press proclaims, “it is his creative musical storytelling, paired with solid vocals on Home that should seal the deal, pleasing fans of the genre and creating some new ones…the perfect blend of pure talent and pluck,” while The Wall Street Journal declares, “Billy Strings has clearly emerged as a premier guitar flatpicker of this era.” Since his debut, Strings has been awarded Guitar Player of the Year and New Artist of the Year at the 2019 International Bluegrass Music Awards, selected as one of Rolling Stone’s “New Country Artists to Know” and performed on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” and PBS’ “Bluegrass Underground.” Known for his electric live shows, Strings will continue his extensive headline tour throughout 2021 including upcoming shows in Los Angeles, Seattle, Chicago, Denver, Austin, Atlanta and Nashville among several others.

Out September 24 via Rounder Records, Renewal was produced by Jonathan Wilson (Conor Oberst, Roger Waters, Father John Misty) and solidifies Strings’ position as a singular artist—one who honors the history of the music that inspires him, while continually pushing it forward. With the record’s sixteen tracks, Strings shares a more personal and honest perspective through his songwriting, while incorporating his wide range of influences with elements of bluegrass, classic rock, metal, psychedelic music and more.

LYRICS

(Apostol / Weisberger / Allen)

It’s something cold like what I stuck around to fight through

And it gets feeling tougher every day

I feel like everybody likes to run their mouth but

can’t decide on what it is they’re tryin’ to say

There’s nothing wrong with hearing voices

Even when they’re in your dreams

And if you’d listen in tomorrow could be better than it seems

I used to think I couldn’t even count my blessings

But now I know they’re few and far between

And when I look at my reflection in the mirror

I can see some man I’ve never even seen

The wasted life I left behind me

Was just a war I couldn’t win

I’m the devil’s guest of honor that’s the best it’s ever been

Little said is soonest mended

Without a wing a word could fly a 1,000 miles

I’d rather be abandoned or alone

Just so I could lend my secrets to the wind

I know a man whose pain is heavy like an anchor

and it drags him to the bottom of the sea

His cloudy eyes are often lost behind a daydream

Or frozen in some broken memory

I’ve never heard him speak about what happened

He’ll never say what laid him low

There are secrets that we carry that are ours to bare alone

You said a love that’s kept in secret dies in darkness

And a soul needs to confess to be set free

So I’m lifting back the cover of my heart, dear

And hoping that you’ll do the same for me

It’s not too pretty, but it’s open

It’s the only way I know to tell you true

I’d walk the world alone before I’d ever walk away from you

Little said is soonest mended

Without a wing a word could fly a 1,000 miles

I’d rather be abandoned or alone

Just so I could lend my secrets to the wind

If you can link your value to your wallet or a key chain

Or a locked wrought iron fence around your yard

Living check to check, a skinny tie around your neck

On stolen time and borrowed numbers off a card

You blink and life is left behind you

There’s no escape, that’s just a fact

We’re all a dollar short and

every one of us is running out of track

Little said is soonest mended

Without a wing a word could fly a 1,000 miles

I’d rather be abandoned or alone

Just so I could lend my secrets to the wind

Little said is soonest mended

Without a wing a word could fly a 1,000 miles

I’d rather be abandoned or alone

Just so I could lend my secrets to the wind

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