Name: Back of My Hand
Duration: P00H03M55S
Description: Back of My Hand is where tattoo lines, scars full of pain, and perseverance intersect with music. Edgy and sublime, this simmering acoustic track centers around a slow bass line feeling guitar riff that supports strong, powerful, lyrics. Vocals are soul full, smooth, and pack a dynamic a punch.

Back of My Hand

by Colette O'Connor

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Back of My Hand is where tattoo lines, scars full of pain, and perseverance intersect with music. Edgy and sublime, this simmering acoustic track centers around a slow bass line feeling guitar riff that supports strong, powerful, lyrics. Vocals are soul full, smooth, and pack a dynamic a punch.

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This page of my life, ink stained, blurring colors cry but don't ask why I made them, do I. Found a lock of your hair, cut away while you held my hand, I understand the season's changing. Whatever went away, at least had the chance to stay. Oh I, I wrote your name today, on the back of my hand. Gone away in the night. Running straight into colored lines, these broken times connect us, don't they. Don't they scar our skin while the ink settles in. Staining like a sin on the back of my hand. I can't chose the way that you let my thoughts remain, if you blame them for your sorrow. Let it scar my skin, while the ink settles in. Staining like a sin on the back of my hand. On the back of my hand. Gone away in the night. Running straight into colored lines, these broken times connect us, don't they. I could not make you stay. The ink began to fade, oh but I, I felt your touch today. I know so well this pain. Like the back of my hand. Like the back of my hand.

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released March 1, 2014
Guitar and vocals, Singer Songwriter Colette O'Connor

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Colette O'Connor Halifax, Massachusetts

Sometimes eye-twinkles need re-charging. Colette reaches deep to craft a little magic where guitar, voice, and lyrics, remind the heart "it's ok to be yourself. That's singer songwriter love.

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