Curse of Vienna

This is an old recording I just re-discovered of the first full song I wrote with the ukulele. It is so strange and wonderful to hear the night sounds in the background. That mixture is specific to the back patio of the old Holland House. It makes me feel like home in a way that is so special.

The song itself is about meeting special people in special places and then leaving them there. I think any regular traveler with a heart full for romance will get what I’m talking about.

Curse of Vienna

LYRICS

You, you got

You, you got,

you got me tied between

Old inclinations and simple pride

I need 24, 24, 24, more hours with you

In the slow roasting hell of this

Building block city

I’ll pretend that it’s not dying

if I can keep sitting

In a yellow, yellow, yellow, white chariot with you

And I don’t wanna

Don’t wanna hold

Don’t wanna hold you

To it

But the pumping’s been off in my heart since you blew it

And next time or sometime is no time when time’s not with you

You, you got

And I don’t want to