Name: The Good Kind
Duration: P00H04M13S
Description: Recorded live - first take. Vocals recorded in the same room through a guitar amp.

The Good Kind

from Honeysuckle by Nicholas St. James

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Recorded live - first take. Vocals recorded in the same room through a guitar amp.

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Have you ever had to give your dog to the pound?
Or split your last dyin’ dollar between four mouths?
Have you ever had to pawn your ring and your chain?
Or packed the car for another smaller home again?

I know that there’s gonna be changes
I know there’s bound to be a line
I know that life comes in stages
But I hope, but I hope, I hope
For the good kind

Have you ever spent your whole day lookin’ for work?
Or stayed in bed because of the effort it took?
Or have you ever been in so deep that it hurt?
You worked your whole damn life for these kinds of perks?

I know that there’s gonna be changes
I know there’s bound to be a line
I know that life comes in stages
But I hope, but I hope, I hope
For the good kind

Cardboard signs are tellin’ stories
You see ‘em on the freeway all the time
They’re all askin’ do you have somethin’ for me
But they hope, but they hope, they hope
For the good kind

I know that there’s gonna be changes
I know there’s bound to be a line
I know that life comes in stages
But I hope, but I hope, I hope
For the good kind

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from Honeysuckle, released July 26, 2014
Nicholas St. James - Vocals, Electric Guitar, Mellotron
Max Allsbrooks - Drums

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Nicholas St. James St. Louis, Missouri

"If Bob Dylan and Tom Waits were the same person, they'd write songs like Nicholas St. James."

-Ed Danger, American Roots Magazine

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