Name: Violet
Duration: P00H04M49S
Description: This version appears on the EP "In Color", and there is an electronic version available on the album "We Should Talk." The song is, again, during a dark period, and it is likely obvious here. I like to say it's a conversation paraphrased. I played all the instruments here. The banjo makes another appearance.

Violet

from Good As Gold: A Brian Jintroduction by Brian Jin

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This version appears on the EP "In Color", and there is an electronic version available on the album "We Should Talk." The song is, again, during a dark period, and it is likely obvious here. I like to say it's a conversation paraphrased. I played all the instruments here. The banjo makes another appearance.

lyrics

I saw you on the dance floor with a violet in your hand,
Like a movie queen in a bedroom scene or just lying there in the sand.

Music in all of your screams,
Daylight in all of your dreams.

Maybe there'll be thunder and lightning in your bed,
Kitchen floors and bedroom doors, and a looming thought of dread

10 hours down on my knees
To give you whatever you please,
Just hope they don't send it overseas

Could you be the blanket that would cover me for now?
My winter snow for your summer glow, we could make it work somehow.

Keep autumn and spring on the run,
And always at the barrel of a gun,
Then ride off in the setting sun

Baby dolls in a sleeping bag, they can keep you up all night,
Do you ever get the sense that none of this is right?

You've asked me now twice to go.
Is there something you want me to know,
But you're keeping it on the down-low?

I saw you on the dance floor with a violet in your hand.

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from Good As Gold: A Brian Jintroduction, track released July 19, 2018
Brian Kious - vocal and all instruments

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Brian Jin St. Louis, Missouri

Brian Jin is a band based in Saint Louis, Missouri, USA. Band members are:

Brian Kious - vocals, guitars, keyboards, mandolin, banjo, ukulele, harmonica, tin whistle, singing bowl

Casey Wollberg - vocals, guitar, percussion

Nick Kladky- vocals, bass guitar, keyboards, guitar ... more

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