We recorded this video on September 15, 2011 in Missoula, Montana. I’m finally all settled into my new home and ready to start work in earnest on the new record I am making at AnimalTown Studios.
Still frame from the music video for The Painting
The mandolin player from the video, Dave Smith, says this is my best song yet. So I asked him to record it with me on YouTube. (Thanks, Dave!) I met Dave at the National Oldtime Fiddle Contest and Festival in Weiser, Idaho this summer. He’s fun to play with, and we’re doing a show together in his neck of the woods with Bruce Cannavaro on bass at the Undertown in Port Townsend, WA on Saturday, October 15.
Thanks for listening! Please be sure to post and share on Facebook if you use that tool. It makes a big difference in helping me spread the word about my music. Thanks for your support.
Download audio at http://907britt.bandcamp.com/track/the-painting.
THE PAINTING
words and music by Britt K. Arnesen
He traced all of our plans upon a canvas
An ordered mingling of lines
Tender like the first brush between us
Feathered, a sunset goodbye
And a finely painted face
Of some other lady
Whose picture don’t look like mine
Postcards and letters from their daydreams
Her young love and beauty made him blind
He traded our promises for her maybes
The mailbox a witness to his crime
And a neatly written name
Of some other lady
Whose song doesn’t sound like mine
Sorrow in the shadow of his freedom
He’d see heartache if he ever looked behind
Betrayal has a way of getting even
Hiding snakes in green grass on the other side
Where the painting hangs
In the home of some other lady
Whose colors don’t bleed like mine
A finely painted face
Of some other lady
Whose colors don’t fade like mine
