Name: Empty Hand
Duration: P00H03M04S
Description: Something I wrote in the arrangement room of the first funeral home I worked in, which I started working at in 1994/95. The words to this must have been in late 2004.. chord progression and simple melody was hanging around awhile.

Empty Hand

from Lost and Returning (collected recordings 2005-2015) by Jack Harlan

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Something I wrote in the arrangement room of the first funeral home I worked in, which I started working at in 1994/95. The words to this must have been in late 2004.. chord progression and simple melody was hanging around awhile.

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You don’t know what to do with your Fridays anymore
All you know is where you will be on Monday when you go out the door
Time like a hammer and nail on your casket and on your courage again

You got an empty hand
Give me your hand
You got a empty hand
I’m not a empty man
But you got empty hand
Don’t you know love demands a starling

You think you are free
Don’t you know your fear gives all the orders
Say there’s no love in your heart
It was never anyone other than you who built the borders
I kick at the jukebox ask why it plays trash
You put in another quarter

You got an empty hand
Give me your hand
You got a empty hand
I’m not a empty man
But you got empty hand
Don’t you know love demands a starling

Starling
Don’t loose me tonight
Starling
Open up your sky
Starling
Don’t loose me tonight
Cause were too young to die
But too old to tell such lies

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from Lost and Returning (collected recordings 2005-2015), released March 9, 2018

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Jack Harlan Calgary, Alberta

Lyrical firestorms, foot stomping and soft introspection of Alternative Folk, Indie & Experimental Roots.

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