Billy Strings - The Fire On My Tongue (Official Audio)

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“The Fire On My Tongue” - 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)

There ain't enough corn mash

In this whole sorry town

To wash off or burn out

The way it all went down

But that cork squeaks so loud

When it’s sneaking its way out

That I’m afraid to death she's going to hear

Now the fire on my tongue

Is for those who die young

And the weariness of we who stay behind

There's poison sickness in my heart

And I don't trust the ashes of my mind

I’ve got too many sorrows

And far too little time

To sit and drown out these memories

Under Tennessee rye

But the salt on the rim

Has me thinking about him

And my shaking hands can't hold back no more tears

Now the fire on my tongue

Is for those who die young

And the weariness of we who stay behind

There's poison sickness in my heart

And I don't trust the ashes of my mind

Whispering my shame

To the bottom of my glass

Won’t get me through the dawn

Or make the darkness pass

So I’ll hold out tonight

And clench this bottle tight

And drink about the light I saw in you

Now the fire on my tongue

Is for those who die young

And the weariness of we who stay behind

There's poison sickness in my heart

It’s tearing me apart

And I don't trust the ashes of my mind

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