Brian Fallon
Brian Fallon
Brian Fallon
Brian Fallon
Brian Fallon
Brian Fallon
Brian Fallon
Brian Fallon
Brian Fallon
Brian Fallon
Brian Fallon
Brian Fallon
This song continues Fallon’s tradition of referencing his heroes, like he did with Steve McQueen and Miles Davis.
Etta James is a well-known soul singer, famous for iconic love songs like Something’s Got a Hold On Me and At Last. In an interview with Rolling Stone, Fallon said this song was inspire...
[Verse 1]
Did you spend most of your life waitin'
On a fairytale read between pages?
Did you huddle up close to your boombox radio
Is somebody waiting on the same song?
And we sold our souls on the fantasies
We found in records and black and white movies
And I used to beg June to burn me alive
If that would get me anywhere but here
[Chorus]
Now Etta James, hit that symphony
'Cause she drifts through my blood like a remedy
And for most of my sad life, I figured I was gonna die alone
'Cause I just burned in the curve of my scars
Twenty long years away from your heart
'Til finally, finally, my love is in my arms
My love is in my arms
[Verse 2]
And it was impossible to hold on to anything
In my chest was a lonesome, growin' cyclone
I kept pictures tucked up into the rearview above
To the sirens I lost in the ocean
And all we wanted was absolutely everything
Like foolish, hungry young lions
I was lost and alone, a million light years from home
It was nobody's fault but mine
[Chorus]
Now Etta James, hit that symphony
'Cause she drifts through my blood like a remedy
And for most of my sad life, I figured I was gonna die alone
'Cause I just burned in the curve of my scars
Twenty long years away from your heart
But finally, finally, my love is in my arms
[Bridge]
And was there a hole in your life?
Did you kill to keep warm, but somehow never quite satisfied?
Do you feel like it's always time to go?
And it's always wrong and it's always off
And it's hard to know which heart to hold
Now do you lie to someone, is someone else on your mind?
Do you lie to someone with me on your mind?
[Chorus]
Now Etta James, hit that symphony
'Cause she drifts through my blood like a remedy
And for most of my sad life, I figured I was gonna die alone
'Cause I just burned in the curve of my scars
Twenty long years away from your heart
'Til finally, finally, my love is in my arms
My love is in my arms
[Outro]
(Etta James, Etta James
Etta James, sing it one time for my pain
Etta James, Etta James
Etta James, sing it one time for my pain)
At last, at last
(Etta James, Etta James
Etta James, sing it one time for my pain)
At last, at last
(Etta James, Etta James
Etta James, sing it one time for my pain)
Like Etta said, my love has come along
Etta James was written by Brian Fallon.
Etta James was produced by Ted Hutt.
Brian Fallon released Etta James on Fri Feb 09 2018.
I feel like all these characters carry a trail behind them. They leave a legacy. I got [the idea of referencing] from hip-hop. If you look at the Seventies and especially the Eighties, New York and East Coast hip-hop was always referencing the culture. With that song, I was saying I’ve got this feel...