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Smoke Rings

from HODW by Hat On, Drinking Wine

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She laughs and tosses herself down on the bed
Traces circles on misty window panes down deep in her head
She laughs at the orange halos down on the street below
And she says, “It’s all the same, it's all the same.”

She got a pretty red car to go with her pretty red eyelashes
Gonna make the world better one pretty red fingernail at a time
Between the darkness truth comes down to her in flashes
She says, “Don’t look at me like that. Happiness aint no kinda crime.”

She looks back at me, strums “Help”
She says, “I need somebody, too.”
Puts her cigarette out on the floor
She says, “I don’t know what else to do.”
“Maybe it’s just me, and all the trees are dead
Maybe I just haven’t come too far. You know I just haven't come too far.”

So, I put something away for a rainy day
Tucked it down inside where nobody could see
And now it’s pouring down, but I’ve got nothing to say
I've got no one to be with, no one to be

“I’m all right,” she says. “Don’t worry.”
She’s apologetic, but she’s not sorry.”
Laughing and shooting a smoke ring towards the ceiling
She says, “It’s hard to be alone with all these feelings.”

So, I put something away for a rainy day
Tucked it down inside where nobody could see
And now it’s pouring down, but I’ve got nothing to say
No one to be with, no one to be

She rushes in pale and empty
Alone and scattered and scared at the world.
She finds a finds a faithful friend in the moments that never passed
But they were never meant to last

So she he hides from a gray world under pink blankets and pajamas.
She doesn’t like what she sees, gonna dream up another world.
She says, “Take me away” and she knows that she’s worth it.
Through the misted windowpanes a new world will unfurl.

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from HODW, released January 1, 2009

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Hat On, Drinking Wine Worcester, Massachusetts

From 2006 to 2011, Hat On, Drinking Wine recorded two albums and played hundreds of shows around the New England area. Once dubbed "Worcester's answer to Wilco" by music reviewer Craig Semon, HODW was known for their heartfelt songs and marathon shows while fusing rock, americana, folk, blues and roots music. The band has been on hiatus since 2012. Matt Robert has released an album in 2013 ... more

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