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Steel On The Strings

by Thomas Oliver

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It feels like a haze of confusion
I can't tell who's winning or losing
I don't know
I don't know

Sometimes I don't see the difference
Between dying and living
I don't know
I don't know

But even through this up and down
I'll always be around and round

'Cause I love fire in the rain
I love smiling on the train
I love the feeling when the pill is kicking in
And I love the sound of the steel on the strings

Mama just lost her father
Fighting got harder and harder
Till he let go
He let go

At just 19, he was a soldier
A rifle was slung on his shoulder
And he left home
He left home
A Libyan port he defended
The Rats Of Tobruk don't surrender

Never spoke of it to anyone
97 times around the sun

'Cause he loved greeting every day
He loved a table tennis game
When he was eighty, he would he play me and he'd win
And he loved the sound
Of a trumpet in the wind

'Cause I love fire in the rain
I love smiling on the train
I love the feeling when the pill is kicking in
And I love the sound of the steel on the strings
Yeah, I love the sound of the steel on the strings

credits

released December 6, 2019
Written, recorded, produced and mixed by Thomas Oliver.

Thomas Oliver: vocals, squareneck resonator, Weissenborn, acoustic guitar.
Ed Zuccollo: Hammond organ.
Barrett Hocking: trumpet.

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Thomas Oliver Wellington, New Zealand

Thomas Oliver is an award-winning singer-songwriter who is also internationally recognised as one of the leading players of the Weissenborn lap-steel guitar. His song, 'If I Move To Mars' won the 2016 APRA Silver Scroll Award.

New album, 'Floating In The Darkness', out now.
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