Billy Strings - Watch It Fall (Official Audio)

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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

It’s not so easy now though it never was back then

We still can’t seem to work this out but we can still pretend

And these tattered walls and burnin' bridges quickly start to fall

How long until there’s nothin' left at all?

Well I’ve been to California man, I've seen them city lights

Been stranded in the desert, scorching days and freezing nights

I’ll never understand why people try to walk so tall

How long until there's nothin’ left at all?

But Don’t you love what you got used to where we used to feel so free?

Won’t you wait a while in silence love,

Watch it fall with me.

The old man said the great big apple’s rotten to the core

With wall street skimming from the till while no-one minds the store

And how could someone get so low in a building so damn tall

And how long until theres nothin left at all?

The answer’s in our heads to the question that was asked

It boils up from underground and leads us to the past

To a place that’s long forgotten when we had enough for all

How long until there’s nothin’ left at all

Don’t you love what you got used to where we used to feel so free?

Come and wait a while in silence love,

Watch it fall with me.

While chunks the size of Delaware are falling off the poles

Our heads are buried in the sand, our leaders dug the holes

Like junkies hooked on fossil fuels heading for withdrawal

How long until theres nothin left at all?

And now the great Pacific reefs are heating up they say

While the plastic covers every inch and cooks the fish away

The barrier is fading back and blanching white as salt

How long until we learn that it’s our fault?

Don’t you love what you got used to where we tried to make our stand?

The hourglass is growing empty now,

Just to leave a pile of sand.

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