big sky country

brother martin and the intangibles

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remembrance of things past....

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brother martin and the intangibles

psychedelic semi-acoustic folk rock with a conscience, a beat, and a smile

There's nothing I'd rather do than play music. I write my own songs, but also enjoy playing the work of Kate Wolf, Richard Thompson, the Grateful Dead, and many other musicians too numerous to mention. The songs I write tap into the same veins of insight, inspiration, and ecstasy that my favorite musicians channel so well.

Song Info

Genre

Beats • Beats General

Charts

Peak #131

Peak in subgenre #17

Author

Martin Holsinger, BMI

Rights

martin holsinger

Uploaded

December 13, 2008

Track Files

MP3

MP3 3.4 MB • 128 kbps • 3:43 minutes

Story behind the song

i wrote this when i first moved to Nashville from the middle of nowhere, eight years ago, and recorded an ambitious, sloppy, semi-ambient version of it on 4 track...i'm working on a crisp 12-track version, but this will have to do for now...

Lyrics

city dust blowin' in my window
city air greasin' up my skin
where's the trail that'll
take me to the river
where's the earth
that ain't fenced in

city sounds eatin' up the silence
freeway whinin' all day and night
city minds fill me up with chatter
no way to stay here and make it right

take me back to big sky country
where the air is cool and clean
take me back to big sky country
i need the smell of the falling rain

city lights glow all night
around me
city rooms make it dark at noon
when's a day in
the great wide open
when's a night
by the light of the moon?

take me back to big sky country
mountains glowing in the sundown light
take me back to big sky country
let the stars fill up my mind

once i lived in big sky country
watched the clouds roll across the sky
once i walked the fields of heaven
once i heard the angels cry

the city came to big sky country
the city sucked the country dry
the city sucked me
into its belly
the city sucks! the city sucks!

i don't care
how good they treat me
i don't care
how much they pay
i don't care
if the girls are pretty
i don't care
if i have a nice day.....

gotta get back
my big sky country
warm wind blowin' through
the tall night trees
gotta get back
my big sky country
back my liberty and back my peace

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