Name: Gertie Held Her Hand Out (Cassette Demo)
Duration: P00H02M19S
Description: I wrote this when I was... nineteen, maybe? I was listening to a lot of Guided By Voices and Weezer, at the time. I called it "Sopranos Theme" because my friend, Scott, said it sounded like it should have been a television theme song and demonstrated this by muting the volume on the opening sequence from HBO's "The Sopranos" while playing my song with it.

Gertie Held Her Hand Out (Cassette Demo)

from Old 6-Track Recordings by Oliver Priddy

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I wrote this when I was... nineteen, maybe? I was listening to a lot of Guided By Voices and Weezer, at the time. I called it "Sopranos Theme" because my friend, Scott, said it sounded like it should have been a television theme song and demonstrated this by muting the volume on the opening sequence from HBO's "The Sopranos" while playing my song with it.

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Gertie held her hand out
one thousand feet above
I was at the bottom of the well.

Climbing up to where she was
took such a long, long time
By the time that I could see her, she was saving someone else

The sunlight made its way
into the grave that was my life
and I could hear her singing from outside

Climbing up to where she was
I caught a single word
By the time that I could see her, I was sure it was "goodbye".

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from Old 6-Track Recordings, released January 1, 2021

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Oliver Priddy Johnston City, Illinois

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