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    Written before, during, and after a family severance, this collection grapples with boundaries, heartbreak, and what it means to Say So. All songs written by The Rough & Tumble, and recorded with Dave Coleman in East Nashville, TN.

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about

Painter’s Sorrow is a flower that is so beautiful, that artist after artist drove themselves mad trying to paint it. They’d sit with their paints in front of this flower, adding a bit of yellow, a drop of red, a hint of blue, to no avail. They could never quite capture the color correctly.

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Painter’s Sorrow
Mallory Graham & Scott Tyler

I’ve been crying ‘bout how I don’t belong.
It’s not a questions, and it isn’t something you haven’t heard before.
Oh, maybe it’s an ancient ache,
Or the moving of the blood--
How long, how long, how long, how long?

And you’ve been saying you wish it was before--
Maybe last November when I lost my temper ‘cause you’re always needing more.
You miss it by an eyelash,
Or it’s behind another door.
How long, how long, how long, how long?

Why is the light never right in this room?
The colors are starting to run.
Let me get closer. I want to get closer to you.

When she stepped up to read our Tarot cards,
She said all your waiting would bring reward of a pretty young thing along.
Why did we act like strangers?
And pretend we weren’t in love?
How long, how long, how long, how long?
How long, how long, how long, how long?

Why is the light never right in this room?
The colors are starting to run.
Let me get closer, I want to get closer.
And we are a painter’s sorrow on a pale afternoon.
Let me get closer.
Why can’t I get closer to you?

Not for all the blue and white that falls in North New England
Can we paint what we don’t know.

credits

from We're Only Family If You Say So, released February 19, 2021
Written and performed by The Rough & Tumble
Mallory Graham: vocals, sleigh bells
Scott Tyler: vocals, high strung guitar, electric guitar
Taylor Donskey: bass guitar
Chris Benelli: drums, percussion
Dave Coleman: 12 string electric guitar

Engineered and mixed by Dave Coleman
at Howard's Apartment Studio
Produced by Dave Coleman and The Rough & Tumble
Mastered by Alex McCollough at True East Mastering, Nashville

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The Rough & Tumble are a dumpster-folk/thriftstore Americana band consisting of Mallory Graham and Scott Tyler. Only This Far, their latest full length record is out May 12, 2023. "The bottom line is these are just quality songs, well written, well played, well sung and arranged, and a pleasure from start to end."- AmericanaUK ... more

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