From the recording A River Is Gone

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Andy – Vocal, backing vocal, acoustic guitars, electric guitars
Renee – Vocal, backing vocal, tambourine, shaker eggs
Kirk Makin – Electric guitars
Jimmy Vermilya - Saxophones
Kevin Hicks – Bass
Robert Dill Jr. – Drums

Lyrics

How Silently A Heart
(© Words and Music by Andy Hill)

The night is swirling black
Above a mattress damp and flat
I need a drink but I can’t move
Guess I’ll get myself a cab
Damn my friends and damn these limbs
Goddamn this circling winged nightmare that never ends
I need music, I hear sirens
Turn the radio up
Calm down now you in the uniform
What the hell are you staring at?

Beyond this rickety bedroom door
Coming unhinged, permanently broken
A spiraling mess of personal matters
Next to the shadow of a wasted man
Somebody’s son, somebody’s friend
How silently, how silently, how silently
A heart shatters

Two lust-drunk beautiful girls
A beckoning string of pearls
They want me now like they did
When I was King of the World
Where are my believers?
Who are these deceivers?
Cops bust anyone, better get a gun
When I kick this fever
I’m gonna leave here, go somewhere
Get my things out of hock
I got good friends in Colorado
Who don’t care if I die or not

Beyond this rickety bedroom door
Coming unhinged, permanently broken
A spiraling mess of personal matters
Next to the shadow of a wasted man
Somebody’s son, somebody’s friend
How silently, how silently, how silently
A heart shatters