The Pinch

Story Behind The Song

Facing my past, I decided to write a song that would encompass the feelings of desperation while trying to score drugs on the lower East side of Manhattan and dealing with the feelings of futility in the current political climate

Song Description

A semi autobiographical song about a person in the grips of addition trying to score dope when he's sick and trying to convey the current political climate. It's a song about desperate times in any major city.

Song Length 3:45 Genre Rock - Hard Rock, Rock - Modern
Tempo Medium (111 - 130) Lead Vocal Male Vocal
Mood Restless, Troubled Subject Loneliness, City
Similar Artists Pearl Jam, Jimi Hendrix Language English
Era 2000 and later

Lyrics

The Pinch
Words and Music
Tim Lacy

Seven hours of nowhere, I?m not afraid of your gun
The scene on the streets of the west is changin
You duck and cover for fun
I wear my Sunday best on a friday
Try not to sweat
I got eye?s in the back of my head, yeah, oh how funny honey.
I got no time for regrets.

Come on baby why you so surprised?Your only feelin? the pinch now honey,
come on baby why you startin? to cry,You?re only feeling the pinch now honey
You?re only feelin? the pinch, They got you feeling the pinch now honey
You?re only feeling the pinch

Seven miles of nowhere, the itch is turnin? ugly again
The world is closin in on this broken angel
Your revolution is dead.
disguise holds up for a moment, yeah but, people treat me
Like I?m dead.
I?m racing to a phone, it?s ringin? but it?s gone
I?ll have to do it again.

Come on baby why you so surprised?You?re only feeling the pinch now honey
Come on baby why you startin to cry?You?re only feelin the pinch now honey
You?re only feelin? the pinch

Crawlin? down the street, sign in front of you says dead end.
One behind you, don?t back up, One above you say?s beware.
Signs all around you,You don?t seem to care,
Wanted, danger uh!, BEWARE????.

You stand all night on the corner baby, Alphabet city you?re done.
There?s a man at the border lookin at his daughter
I think she carries a gun.
The cold seems to nip at my nose when there?s danger,
I start to sweat
I got eye?s in the back of my head oh how funny honey,
You can feel my regret.

Come on baby why you so surprised, you?re only feelin the pinch now honey,
Come on baby why you startin? to cry, you?re only feelin the pinch now honey, You?re only feelin? the pinch, They got you feelin? the pinch now honey
You?re only feelin the pinch.

Lyrics Tim Lacy Music Tim Lacy
Producer Tim Lacy Publisher World Now Music
Performance Tim Lacy, Dan Cartwright, Colin Almquist

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