Old Guitars

from The Daylight Express by tobias hengeveld

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lyrics

what’s eating, eating you?
After all that has gone on
I still aint got, still aint got a song
That rips the cap off with its teeth

And you know with old guitars
They don’t have the pride
Good enough gets left alone
And they get left aside
To the clapping of a screen door

What I quite old house you are
Poised upon the far
Too early, far too late
The walls and floor they ache
A finger shifts its weight and you’re in for the haul
Avalanches roar, start showing you the chords
Tap tapping on your lid
Tapping on your lid

And the thing about old guitars
If you sing for them alone
Right down into that hole
Back at you they sing
And tell you simple things that ring like home truths
But if home should ring
Just tell them I’ve shot-through
Tell them I’m not in
Tell them I’m not in

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from The Daylight Express, released July 1, 2014

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tobias hengeveld Melbourne, Australia

Tobias Hengeveld writes melodically vivid songs, riddled with unexpected angular pop-hooks. His distinctively sylvan voice tells personal experiences with wry lyrical candor.

The Daylight Express was nominated for an Age Music Victoria Award in 2014.

Due in April 2019, NAUGHTS & ONES is a triumphant mirror-maze of jubilant pop tunes set in a hinterland of darker rock ballads. ... more

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