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Make It Easy
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Acoustic song of rejection featuring Jack Tannehill - Vocals & Acoustic Guitar Buck Dilly - Hammond Organ & Electric Guitar This song won first place in a song contest at MakeAStar.com
acoustic rock raspy singe
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Jack Tannehill independent singer songwriter acoustic rock artist plays songs of rejection, sad songs, with a honey and gravel raspy voice.
Jack Tannehill is a unique singer/songwriter with a unique way of writing songs, of looking at the world and of expressing himself. He also possesses a signature honey 'n gravel voice that sets him apart from anyone else you've heard and that also adds credence to his lyrics and to the passion of his vocals. If you like Bob Dylan, Steve Forbert, Neil Young and similar artists you'll no doubt find the original sound of Jack Tannehill to your liking as well.
Song Info
Charts
Peak #175
Peak in subgenre #30
Author
John W. Tannehill
Rights
1996 John W. Tannehill
Uploaded
February 07, 2004
Track Files
MP3
MP3 4.4 MB 128 kbps 4:46
Story behind the song
Jack's written a number of songs of rejection. This is one of his best. While it is unusual because it has no chorus or strict structure from verse to verse (and is therefore truly a writing of prose, rather than poetry, put to music), it's freeform style is perfect for what it sets out to do. Essentially, it's a song that some may say breaks a few rules but it breaks them successfully. The freeform style actually helps add credence to the words for who is there that would be singing about rejection and be more concerned about syllable count and rhyming than they would be about expessing their feeling in a more natural way? During the music only sections just imagine the singer struggling to voice his next words, honest heartfelt words, of rejection, of a failed love and the pain of finding it hard to let it go.
Lyrics
I don't speak your name I don't wonder where you're goin' I see our friends sometimes I'm still not sure who was yours or mine. I just keep on walkin' I won't drive your street Won't ring your number - don't go near your phone I do what I can to MAKE IT EASY I kill these days with coffee, with cigarettes. Smoke like I'm on fire I don't dare drink for fear I'd drown Gotta keep my head What little is left of me I moved our ... I moved my bed to a whole 'nother room New pictures on the walls Anything at all to MAKE IT EASY I wish you well and wish you hell all in the same I'll wake from dreams and wonder, "Oh what if I? Couldn't I? Shouldn't I? Well maybe when he's gone" Why couldn't you sleep alone? MAKE IT EASY Sure I've one song that hurt you It never helped me feel BETTER NOW at all I write for me not you I don't need the crowds, the smoky rooms I don't need the applause Yet I thank God for the acceptance I have found in strangers' hearts for just singing of rejection And if nothing more this tune Will let you know I had to hold the hurt It was all that I'd left of you Well even that I'm letting go I don't need to hurt no more May God cushion both our falls And somehow MAKE IT EASY
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