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Hammers & Strings

by Jenna Paone

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1.
The Dance 03:22
spin me around we should have known we’d be good as gone heard the devil sing our song i think we owe him one so don’t you wanna stay don’t you wanna play don’t you wanna wait and see don’t you wanna fly don’t you wanna try don’t you wanna fall in love with somebody like me tonight the music’s just our alibi so hold me tight oh, honey we can dance ‘til we die lick your lips it’s gonna sting when i clip your wings come be my crooked king i’ll be your anything but don’t you cool off don’t you back talk don’t you stop till it hurts don’t you wanna do something brand new don’t you wanna crawl across the universe with me tonight the music’s just our alibi so hold me tight oh honey, we can dance ‘til we die for just one night morning it don’t have to matter just tonight you can be my ever after hold me tight feel my heart beat faster, faster and it ain’t right but honey, we can dance we can dance so don’t you wanna stay don’t you wanna play don’t you wanna…oh don’t you pray don’t you look away don’t you ever let me go for just tonight the music’s just our alibi for just one night don’t you wonder where or why no time is right but no one’s ever been this high so hold me tight and honey, we can dance ‘til we die
2.
Prove It 03:07
i know you, mister you’re just my type blow like a twister you goin’ cut like a knife heads up pour me a double, you shoot me the breeze you came looking for trouble you came looking for me well if you want me oo you better prove it you better prove it, baby if you want me oo you better prove it you better prove it to me woah don’t call me violet, no shy ain’t my type i need a riot, baby light up my night let’s go can’t love for hire you can’t love for free you can’t, can’t start a fire if you can’t take the heat well if you want me oo you better prove it you better prove it, baby if you want me oo you better prove it you better prove it to me oo oo, you better prove it, prove it oo oo, you’re gonna lose it, lose it oo oo, you better prove it, prove it oo oo, you’re gonna lose it, lose it and oh i’ll be your decoration you can be my celebration oh hand in my hesitation baby blue reputation any old time you better prove it oo oo you’re gonna lose it i know you mister you’re just my scene i’d like to twist ya if you know what I mean and you do just what you want to with what you see you came looking for trouble you came looking for me well if you want me oo you better prove it you better prove it, baby if you want me oo you better prove it you better prove it, baby if you want me oo you better prove it you’re gonna lose it, baby if you want me oo you better prove it you better prove it to me i know you, mister gimme a kiss
3.
you win i quit i guess that’s it went and lost my grip upon your lips and if you agree i will let you lead me lay me to sleep you don’t have to say you can stay the whole night long but if you can’t wait i could stay the whole night long here in your arms sweet, break my rules you know you came too soon make me chase the moon for a kiss, cruel but it’s all i want just your quiet call one graceless fall you don’t have to say you can stay the whole night long but if you can’t wait i could stay the whole night long here in your arms this is where i belong this is what i’ve become this is all that i want and it’s time i tried almost open my eyes when you crash inside take me over and over and over your hand make my hand sing i see stars shining you come down to me you don’t have to say you can stay the whole night long but if you can’t wait i could stay the whole night long bend till we ache be my darkness, we race the dawn you don’t have to say you can stay the whole night long you don’t have to say you can stay the whole night long but you could say stay
4.
another lucky star up in the sky wondering why it don’t shine half as bright as it did last night doesn’t it know we tried but the diamonds in your eyes eclipse the supernova fill me up bowl me over sing sweet rhythm, sing me all the secrets we’re too young to know, yeah it’s the sweetest sound i could ever hear your words spin around like a record, dear there’s harmony, a symphony in everything you say to me and it’s the sweetest sound like music to my ears and all the “told-you-so”s are gonna be wrong saying we don’t belong yeah, we’ll string them right along just singing our song hearts beating strong the beat goes on and on and on it’s like a melody i never thought would play for me it’s everything i hoped it’d be if love’s a tune i know the key and it’s the sweetest sound i could ever hear your words spin around like a record, dear there’s harmony, a symphony in everything you say to me and it’s the sweetest sound like music it goes woah la la la la la la la la and don’t your old guitar already know heard it long ago on the wind up radio it’s slow but every measure says that we were meant together and at the end if it’s your pleasure play it, baby once again, yeah it’s the sweetest sound i could ever hear your words spin around like a record, dear there’s harmony, a symphony in everything you say to me and it’s the sweetest sound woah it’s the sweetest sound you spin around, yeah it’s the sweetest, oh it’s the sweetest it’s the sweetest sound like music to my ears
5.
Dark Tonight 04:48
daylight is fading the twilight is taking its place and the streets should be busy with the dance of their dizzying race but they’re bare as a stranger’s goodbye still as a hurricane’s eye and hard as their lanterns may try to shine bright they’re dark tonight wine goes undrunk lingerie trunks hold their locks windows stay closed ‘cause there’s no cyranos throwing rocks and the crickets lay down their bows the fireflies give up their glow and even the old bayou ghosts have slowed their waltz tonight ‘cause we’ve got it all all the love in the world it’s more than we’ve been promised more than we deserve and it’s all wrapped up in our kiss the world will be lonely tonight for the sake of us come a bit closer we’ll roll the clouds under our heads swing cherry trees in a canopy over our bed and we’ll drink in the magic we’ve found ‘til the last of our candles burn down ‘til all the shadows around us have drowned in our charmed delight ‘cause we’ve got it all all the love in the world it’s more than we’ve been promised more than we deserve and it’s all wrapped up in our kiss the world will be lonely tonight for the sake of us oh, bliss like this can’t last very long you blink and it comes then you blink and it’s gone like a comet it clips as you try to hang on so kiss me, my love won’t you kiss me for time will not wait tomorrow is coming and with it the tide you must take and hold me now close as you can for now may be all that we have but perfect is how our hands command what grandest hours they like oh the streets are dark tonight
6.
into you the farther down that i go the less i understand the more that i know still i can’t shake the worry the oldest story your eyes shine find someone new to believe in and dreams never come true don’t know why i’m still frightened you know i’ve been trying just to see this through and some nights i hold too tight to my heart and some nights i just can’t fight anymore but you say we’re all right you say we’ve been right from the start see i’m still smiling if you are can’t we go back to basics when everything was a bet and it was just you and me in the place the sun never set we’d trade words for water late night promises you are who i choose to believe in the one thing I can’t lose and if i was certain you would come i’d open up my arms and some nights i hold too tight to my heart and some nights i just can’t fight anymore but you say we’re all right you say we’ve been right from the start see i’m still smiling if you are if you are see i’m still smiling see i’m still smiling and in the end it comes down to what do you want and i swear if you weren’t real by now i’d make you up don’t know why i’m still frightened you know i’ve been trying to get by all the lines we draw and the fire door the liar that you took me for and some nights i hold too tight to my heart and some nights i just can’t fight anymore but you say we’re all right you say we’ve been right from the start see i’m still smiling if you are if you are see i’m smiling see i’m still smiling
7.
Late 05:24
you call through the moon to my window oh, and i’ve known you would come and you always could move me to follow oh, but now i'm just numb and up like the ivy you climb promising heaven this time and i loved you once and once and i could it again now you say you want me back you say you’ve changed but i’ve been hearing that for way, way too long a year or two you asked me to wait for way, way too long a year or two is a year or two late now don’t don’t you cry there on my doorstep don’t you shed one more tear you who wrote the art of the arctic the laws of veneer you were born under stormier skies the wind and the ice in your eyes and here am i like mid-july while your winters still rage it’s not that i don’t like the cold but my summer clothes have been growing old for way, way too long a year or two you asked me to wait for way, way too long a year or two is a year or two late you’re holding on a bit too late now the ceiling is caved through the cracks and we can’t go on, but we can’t go back and i guess it’s true, i’m over you you’re not what i need your roses have been fading in the vases where i laid them for way, way too long a year or two you asked me to wait for way, way too long a year or two is a year or two late you’re a year or two late
8.
Not So Sad 04:13
a surprising horizon the sunrise, it never looked so bright shake the bitter off nothing little lost but nothing you can’t get back again if you want stole a piece of me but not quite all you see i still got something hiding here up my sleeve edges kinda rough dreams are going bust but all that means is i’m finally waking up guilt’s as good as gone put my new shoes on ‘bout to find out another road home skip to keep the beat baby, talk is cheap i’d rather be singing like la la la la la i’ll be alright i’m almost sure, baby maybe this time i’m gonna learn now i’m on my way back to before and i’m not quite glad but i’m not so sad anymore well don’t sweat it you forget it i can’t let it bring me down again looking forward to not conforming to the sorta person you thought you thought you knew might be led astray might just run away either way i know i’m gonna be ok nothing in front of me but possibilities and every one of them’s looking just fine by me it’s the tunnel light ready to ignite i’ve been bottling up all this time clear my dizzy head of all the things you said what was i thinking like hmmm i’ll be alright i’m almost sure, baby maybe this time i’m gonna learn now i’m on my way back to before and i’m not quite glad but i’m not so sad anymore i’m not so sad anymore you don’t belong to me anymore guilt’s as good as gone put my new shoes on ‘bout to find out another road home skip to keep the beat baby, talk is cheap i’d rather be singing like la la la la la i’ll be alright i’m almost sure, baby maybe this time i’m gonna learn now i’m on my way back to before i’m seeing straight i’m out the door and i’m on my way back to before and i’m not quite glad but i’m not so sad anymore
9.
So Long 04:02
he says come back to bed, my darling why you been gone so long? it’s lonely without you there next to me you know i don’t like sleeping alone alone and when i close my eyes i still dream of you falling to your knees but you know i don’t look forward to seeing you now you’ll look different than you did to me and we’re so long done now nobody grieves when you’re lost and gone you should belong to someone else so go on and so long do you doubt in the girl lying close to you? the key to the cure on her hips all the gold in her wings couldn’t keep you still, no you’ve left better girls than this and we’re so long done now nobody grieves when you’re lost and gone you should belong to someone else so go on, go on, go on and so long so long and for all you deny the look in their eyes the loneliness comes and it comes out at night and the crimes you commit they go to your head ‘til the last thing you heard was the last thing you said in so long in so long and there’s another goodbye in your rearview so you might as well keep it in drive and if your moon don’t hang as high as it should well, you’ve been running all your life and we’re so long done now nobody grieves when you’re lost and gone you should belong to someone else and we’re so long done now nobody grieves when you’re lost and gone you should belong to someone else but you don’t belong to no one else so go on and so long he says come back to bed, my darling why you been gone so long?
10.
well hey there, lonely i know you know me my one and only my last shot in the dark can’t you see me out in the alley shadows around me my hope falling apart i thought i lost you in that long-lost blue sky that fell through my heavens oh, my heavens come undone and do they love you? like i loved you hair done up and new shoes sweet-talkin’ tricks red lips just havin’ fun you know you look like a photograph you take my breath i want it back when you go it’s like a heart attack makes me buckle at my knees darling, you don’t know what you do to me and you never could change it’s a shame i was a fool to see you again oh, every time i make up my mind, my new eyes go blind desire bring me down right back down to the start you keep me holding to my devotion, yeah my life wide open for your ready-to-walk hard-knock unbreakable heart you know i burn like a cigarette in your wandering, squandering silhouette then you light me up and i forget baby please don’t, please don’t leave darling, you don’t know what you do to me and you never could change it’s a shame i was a fool to see you again and i hopped a train it took me all around i looked this curving earth all up and down and i thought of you so hey there, lonely i know you know me my one and only my last shot in the dark darling, you don’t know what you do to me and you never could change oo go ahead and ruin me my hope, my light, my should-have-known-right-from-the-start that you don’t know what you do to me and you never could change oo go ahead and ruin me my hope, my light, my should-have-known-right-from-the-start my shot in the dark
11.
Va Va Voom 04:12
old man rum got you wise since falling the last time bat your cinnamon eyes slide to the far side you’ll only come just close enough to look but i liked you better when you weren’t so good and you look ripe to be picked forbidden to lick, though like some apple outlawed unfit for the wrong god won’t bring a thing but trouble to my room but i like my trouble with a va va voom so come on in darling don’t you resist me the more you dismiss me the less that you try oh, come on in darling you know you missed me and if that’s a sin, least the devil don’t mind and what would she say if only she knew, love how you stumbled my way loose on a skin drug hand on my thigh, you double into two heart broken open with a tick, tick boom so come on in darling don’t you resist me the more you dismiss me the less that you try oh, come on in darling you know you missed me and if that’s a sin least the devil don’t mind and there’s no where to run no where to hide, now just a matter of time you’re gonna be mine, our silly game you always love to lose a story with an ending that goes va va voom and you never say you never say you never say no oh and I told you and i told you and i told you so so come on in come on in come on in, come on in, come on in come on in, come on in, come on in come on in, com on in, oh won’t bring a thing but trouble to your room but don’t you like your trouble with a va va voom
12.
rain, rain, go away the shame, shame come today the stain, stain, stain may be here to stay like the red, red on her lips, she spread it ‘cross your hips you bad, bad boy i know just what you did there’s a knock, knock at the door, a shot heard round the world, and pop, pop, pop goes my heart to the floor and all i want you to see is the all the wrong you’ve done to me boy, you’re gonna feel it all in one, two, three you better watch your step better watch your step, son you better watch your step ‘cause i got myself a gun you better watch your step better watch your step, son you better watch your step ‘cause i got myself a gun these white, white little lies, hold tight, tight to you, i could fight, fight, fight it but why would i try there’s a storm, storm on the rise, so lord, lord hide your eyes, my colt is loaded my hands to the sky with a bang, bang knock ‘em down, a bang, bang, hit the ground bang, bang, bang is the loneliest sound and you think i can’t hold my own and you think i don’t got the stones but one little finger on one little trigger and you will know you better watch your step better watch your step, son you better watch your step ‘cause i got myself a gun you better watch your step better watch your step, son you better watch your step ‘cause i got myself a gun and you can call the law all that you want even they’d absolve me they’d say he had it comin’ all along bang, bang, bang, bang…shhhh better watch your step better watch your step, son you better watch your step ‘cause i got myself a gun you better watch your step better watch your step, son you better watch your step ‘cause I got myself a gun and it goes bang, bang knock ‘em down and bang, bang, hit the ground bang, bang, bang is the loneliest sound it goes bang, bang bang, bang bang, bang, bang, bang bang you better watch your step better watch your step, son you better watch your step ‘cause i got myself a gun you better watch your step better watch your step, son you better watch your step ‘cause i got myself got myself got myself got myself a gun
13.
1 A.M. 04:30
1 am again won’t you let me in? i’ve come across an ocean just to drink your cup looking up to watch you shut your curtains and i won’t start a fuss no i’ve waged wars enough to hold my tired bones but i don’t wanna wait make that mistake of growing old to a dial tone go slow, my dear i’m getting nowhere near you keep me running from what we’ve become and all this time i’ve wasted all my life i’ve paid the cost of getting lost and i’m so scared what i give up is all you’ll want but not enough i’d bring the whole world down to get to you can i belong to you will or won’t you goes the test can we live like this? back where we were before fall through the floor we’ll break our wrists for one perfect kiss well don’t let go you’ll be the first to know when i can find out why i can’t decide and all this time i’ve waited all my life to lay my pride on the line and i’m so scared what i give up is all you’ll want but not enough i’d bring the whole world down to get to you you, you, you, you 1 am again won’t you let me in? i’ve come across an ocean and i’m so scared what i give up is all you’ll want but not enough and i’d bring the whole world down i’d bring the whole world down i’d bring the whole world down to get to you to get to you
14.
i am broken up in two i am piece upon piece because of you and i swear you’re like the first i’ve seen and i know you’ll get the best of me before we’re through and so do you and when you leave me don’t be long you keep me close, i’ll keep your ghost on my palm where you fit is where i’ll make my home where you go you will not go alone you are the roll and the thunder and all the glory it brings you are the hope and the wonder the kiss and the sting this marvelous thing held up by hammers and strings hammers and strings now i can feel your body hum and i can hear your heart beat clear like a drum and i’ve been waiting for this all my life like the silence waits for a riot cry you are the roll and the thunder and all the glory it brings you are the hope and the wonder the kiss and the sting this marvelous thing held up by hammers and strings and i’ll be kissing and kissing and kissing you, darling i’ll be kissing and kissing and kissing and kissing you, oh i’ll be kissing and kissing and kissing you, darling i’ll be kissing and kissing and kissing and kissing you, oh you are the roll and the thunder and all the glory it brings you are the hope and the wonder the kiss and the sting this marvelous, oh i’d give you anything the roll and the thunder and all the glory it brings you are the hope and the wonder the kiss and the sting this marvelous thing held up by hammers and hammers and strings and i am broken up in two
15.
don’t blink i see you and me alone at last room to breathe and if it’s a dream let me have this one don’t you wake me up when morning comes you’ll be gone and i’ll be on my own again hold my breath you hold the door and then change your mind you let me slip ‘til you can’t look back there’s nothing left but goodbye you know how hard we tried goodbye to you and i and my perfect life now don’t speak i’ve heard all you’ll say and i deserved much more but that’s ok if this is all we’ll be we’ll be a waste of time so you go back to her and leave me here high and dry my eyes can’t find the moon but our empty sky will find me soon and i’ll cry your name ‘til i forget this isn’t how the world should end goodbye you know how hard we tried goodbye to you and i and my perfect life keeps going and we don’t own nothing and if i’d known what was happening i’d have told you everything but now you’re gone and i’ll be on my own again close that door another opens the only sound our lonely sigh is this how we learn to say goodbye goodbye goodbye i know how hard we tried goodbye to you and i and my perfect life keeps going we don’t own nothing goodbye to you and i and my perfect life now don’t blink i see you and me

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released October 1, 2014

Jenna Paone - Lead Vocals, Piano
Samm Bahman - Electric, Acoustic & 12 String Guitar,
Mandolin, Glockenspiel
Kevin Connolly - Bass, Hammond Organ, Percussion,
Backing Vocals (and extra acoustic guitar on track 4 & 5)
Jon Francis - Drums
Alex Brander - Percussion
Brian Paulding - Trombone
Tyler Riccardi - Saxophone
Jack Shanahan - Trumpet
Geoffrey Roman - Fiddle
Zach Surapine - Violin
Evan Raczynski - Viola
Diana Gonzalez - Cello
Christine Mann - Cello
Aerica Lauren - Backing Vocals
Meg Flanagan - Backing Vocals

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All songs written by: Jenna Paone

Produced by: Kevin Connolly & Jenna Paone
Engineered and Mixed by: Kevin Connolly at Waterville Studios
(watervillesoundandrecording.com)
Mastered by: Toby Mountain at Northeastern Digital (northeasterndigital.com)
Song Arrangements by: Jenna Paone, Kevin Connolly, Samm Bahman & Jon Francis (track 3)
String Arrangements: Kevin Connolly & Jenna Paone
String Conducting: Morgan Scott
Horn Arrangements: Brian Paulding
Photography: Mike Dravis (mikedravis.com)
Album Design: Samm Bahman

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