Oh Hell - Live

http://www.youtube.com/JackConteMusic

A song I wrote a while ago called Oh Hell.

Lyrics:

I see you as a shadow, as an echo, from a canyon underground. Where daylight tastes like water, so much sweeter when it's not always around. Because we are just animals, so predictable, like lions at the zoo. Oh hell, oh hell!

I still fear what's unavoidable, uncontrollable, though it does me no good. Like running from a nightmare: my feet seem to stick there, and I can't move at all. And that's the dawn of paralysis. Yeah, we know there's more than this, if we could only move. Oh hell, oh hell!

I breathe out my expectations, the ones I created. I watch them fly away towards the sun, burning to obscurity. The life of a galaxy. I wish I could be here the day it explodes! Because that's how I think of you: tragically beautiful, and the end of every road. Oh hell, oh hell!

Someday when we intersect we'll think of times we spent sweating and alive. Oh, I was alive! And breathing your bones like air, if the world would just disappear, and leave us in the sky, suspending in time, watching the planets freeze, drinking the moon's sweet gaze, and laughing at the ice! Oh hell, oh hell!

Category:

Music

Tags:

• jack
• conte
• accordion
• music
• oh
• hell

[punkfan773]

I'm begging for a studio version of this. Still bare minimum instrumatation, but something with slightly higher audio quality.

[electrohermit]

I think Jack Conte is the trippiest thing currently on the internet. I'm pretty sure of it. This guy must write songs in his sleep, I don't see how anyone can be so busy. I like having watched all of his videos and seeing this one now -- Jack up there just ripping that accordian like its the coolest rig in the world. There's no comparison!! its insane. I dare anyone to be this cut loose and creative...

[ImStereotype]

I've heard this song for years and it still moves me in the same way. Yet when I play it for others, they look at me like I just shot a baby. Strange.

[TheWholefruit]

Jack, please. Just listen. Please DO the studio version of this song, it's beautiful and deserves to be made in good quality. PLEASE! :)

[wombletony]

@ptmagi Check out Scott Dunbar too mate, Accordion for the soul. Mr Conte is still the king tho.

[ptmagi]

My son introduced this to me after watching a movie with accordion music that really grabbed me (surprisingly - I always thought it was a pretty cheesy instrument). Wow. Was I ever wrong.

[PerishBrave]

I wish this song never had to end.

[LetTheMusicFlow1]

I'll chime in also; studio version, please? Maybe even as an extra on your next album or something. I really love this song; I sing it in the shower.

[wentzel142]

Studio version PLEASE! This would make a perfect simplistic, acoustic VideoSong.

[JohnOBrienMusic]

Absolutely beautiful.

[karijanak]

musical genius.