Billy Strings - Taking Water (Official Lyric Video)

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About HOME:

Billy Strings has been hailed as the future of bluegrass, transcending tradition and genre with his high velocity, flat-picking guitar technique and intense, confessional songwriting. HOME, Strings’ remarkable second studio album, is undoubtedly the Michigan-born, Nashville-based artist’s bravest excursion thus far, completely rewiring bluegrass with elements of punk, country, folk rock, and genuine psychedelic exploration to fashion something altogether his own. Strings has infused the aesthetic with his own experiences and inspirations, adopting traditional sonic and lyrical idioms to confront contemporary social truths. With guest appearances from the likes of Jerry Douglas and Molly Tuttle and produced by Glenn Brown (Greensky Bluegrass, Marcus Miller), HOME marks a landmark on Billy Strings’ ongoing creative journey, its fearless songs and freewheeling approach recasting string-based American music in his own inimitable image.

LYRICS

Cold Cold ashes on the ground

Nothing lost and nothings found

Friends and loved ones falling down

Can’t you hear that mournful sound

Nothing left but memories

Of things I still can’t stand to see

There’s an empty spot in me

Where my hometown used to be

This old boat is taking water

It won’t be long till it goes down

We’ve had enough to push us over

Time to turn the wheel around

Neighborhoods Left to decay

People died or walked away

Nowhere left for them to stay

While we just look the other way

This old boat is taking water

It won’t be long till it goes down

We’ve had enough to push us over

Time to turn the wheel around

Waves keep pounding through the night

Lost without a ray of light

Going down without a fight

Is there still time to make it right?

This old boat is taking water

It won’t be long till it goes down

We’ve had enough to push us over

Time to turn the wheel around

Video editing and animation by Bella Mazzola

On fiddle: John Mailander

Co-written by William Apostol and Jon Weisberger

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