Silly Heart

from Late Life Lightning by ROUGH CHURCH

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About Silly Heart.

Ok, no lie that pandemic pre vaccine’s was a bummer, but a sav to the open wound was writing this song.

It may seem like a fluffy idea, pandering to say keep your sense of humor, trust your gifts and all that, but it was a real challenge to even the most smug amonst us.

Actually I think I am still awkward and insecure more than ever, but I needed a song, something to hold on to. Thanks to my wife, bandmates, Be Hussey, we kept it all going in 2020-2021.

In a deeper way, the song is to myself to encourage my better thoughts.
They say you can’t pay any price to get your soul back, some things are not for sale.

So I think this is really about where you want the line to stay, to keep sanity. Being able to rest my head on the pillow at night comes from knowing that I have a mostly clear conscious when it comes to the motto this is your life, you can have it all” “just don’t hurt nobody” or as Andy from XTC says.

So in that spirit and through these crazy times, I wanted to share what I think keeps me sane is to keep a Silly Heart.

Have Valentine’s day, be good to yourself, you are your own first Valentine. p.s. dedicated to A.E.B. (Greg Franco | Feb 6th 2022)

lyrics

SILLY HEART LYRICS

Keep a Silly Heart
Like a magic card
Pulled out of a sleeve
The World’s in a spinning weave

Hard times have a knack
Get that Silly heart back
Hard times, hard times have a knack
Get that Silly heart back

I’m thinking of a scene
We really laughed,
We almost peed
Through the surf and the trees
Windy Streets
Old and pizza joints
Silly hearts winning points

Playing and Walking
With your honey
Put that silly heart on your money!
Even when you feel
So differently sometimes
How you feel so differently

Remember that night?
Remember that day?
Sure we fight
We keep it at bay.
Feel the bumps in the road.
When the magic happens
So Lazzie Faire
Swift like moving air
I didn’t say it was fair

Playing and Walking
With your honey
Fall gained ground so fast
Don’t get too serious
Keep a Silly Heart,
Keep a Silly Heart
Keep a Silly Heart

credits

from Late Life Lightning, released August 5, 2022
MUSICIANS:
Greg Franco - Vocals and Guitar
Kaitlin Wolfberg - Violins and Vocals
Dante Pascuzzo - Guitars
Alfredo Ortiz – Drums and percussion
Mark Doten – Bass and Piano

WRITTEN by Greg Franco and Dante Pascuzzo

PUBLISHED BY by Sofa Hablando Music, admin by Heyday Media Group (ASCAP) and Regal Platypus Publishing, admin by Songs of Heyday (BMI)

PRODUCED BY
Rough Church (Greg, Dante, Alfredo and Kaitlin)

RECORDED & MIXED BY:
Be Hussey at Comp-ny

ASSISTANT ENGINEER:
Adam Russell

Recorded April 6th 2021

MASTERED BY:
Dave Cooley for Elysian Mastering Services

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