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Previously released in a full band version on the album of the same name on Nonesuch Records.

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Put pen to the paper and sign
The lines on both sides of your hand I can read
What settles out at the bottom of a bottle of wine
Are promises and lies you can choose to believe

When rumors won't leave you alone
Your words cast a shadow, try to fill in their form
Lay your hat on the table, I'll take your side
The mirror allows what the darkness divides

You'll never tell all that you know
In spite of the shelter the storm still will blow
Through the pastures of safety may you plow the straight line
Walk slow, with a swing in, the river will rise

Pass under my window and wave
Sirens yell at each other, I don't hear your name
Spin hard in a circle if you want to go down
Sing praises to the neighbor who is tending that ground

Rockabye, there'll be a blanket to cover you
When you go down
Rockabye, there'll be a blanket to cover you
When you go down

What you learn from the bottle is true
One is too many and two are too few
Line up the small glasses, tell me what have you heard
There's not a thing to laugh about tonight in this world

You made me call all over town
You're easy to lose when you want to be found
I remember a room lit by one brilliant light
Throw the windows wide open, we'll sit in the dark tonight

Rockabye, there'll be a blanket to cover you
When you go down
Rockabye, there'll be a blanket to cover you
When you go down

Put pen to the paper and sign
The lines on both sides of your hand I can read
What settles out at the bottom of a bottle of wine
Are promises and lies that you can choose to believe

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from One Way or Another, released October 14, 2022
Robin Holcomb - Piano and Voice

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Robin Holcomb Seattle, Washington

Robin Holcomb’s music has been called “staggeringly beautiful.” by the New York Times. Through her times sharecropping tobacco as a young woman, as an improvising pianist on New Yorks’ downtown scene in the 80s, and three decades of creating an utterly idiosycratic catalog of songs, Ms. Holcomb has created a singular canon as a composer. ... more

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