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In Our Headphones

The Hold Steady - Family Farm

In Our Headphones

KEXP

Music, Music Commentary

4.41.1K Ratings

🗓️ 31 December 2020

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

It’s the last day of 2020 and a new year is ahead of us. To bring on the transition, we get a little bit of something familiar and something new with The Hold Steady’s “Family Farm.” The indie rock legends make a momentous return with the first single from their upcoming album ‘Open Door Policy.’ A barrage of guitars and horns underscore Craig Finn’s impassioned, talk-singing vocals. It’s a triumphant last call for the year, feeling like the concussion of fireworks in the sky while we ride out into the sunset. More than that, it’s a harbinger of all the good music to come in the year ahead. 

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0:00.0

I'm going to go and St. Catharins was a nightmare. You know they took away my headphones.

0:25.0

Show they let you keep your hands set. But the courtyard is the dead zone.

0:31.0

And the nurse that they assigned me

0:35.2

Had eruption as a ring tone

0:38.4

blasting out through built in speakers like its bug spray buzzing like a horn and halfway blown. If you're still in Pennsylvania, I'd advise you not to leave

1:04.0

Take some Nichols from the fountain

1:07.0

Make your friends and fall asleep

1:10.0

Let your sins be of a mission

1:12.0

I wish you engaged with all the Let your sons be of a mission.

1:13.0

I wish you and engaged with all these creeps

1:16.0

because they're never gonna love you

1:18.0

that one specific way that you want aama love you. With a flexible schedule on willingness to trade your meditations,

1:40.0

assessing and controlling and coming up on total suffocation.

1:47.0

She can't answer the cantina, singing this must be the place,

1:51.0

said faithful as its limits, I just want to see his face.

1:55.0

Before she took her shot, she said a little grace, said Lord grant me the power to stop these hands from shaking.

2:01.0

I've been falling in the founts since a week or so before. I've been rattled by the accident.

2:06.4

My shoulders were still sore. I almost rolled my eyes when they asked me how to score,

2:11.2

but sometimes it feels sweet to be the teacher.

2:15.0

When she was calling through the carpet, I could not resist her charms.

2:19.0

She brought me to a fortress, she called the family farm.

2:22.0

And out along the towers, there were guards with heavy arms

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