Name: Exactly What It Is
Duration: P00H04M47S
Description: I don’t know exactly what this song is about, except that it is, exactly what it is. It’s almost like a song in two parts - the second part somehow making sense of the first. The production “weirdness” mirrors the lyrical intention.

Exactly What It Is

from Dominoes by Cold Ghost

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I don’t know exactly what this song is about, except that it is, exactly what it is. It’s almost like a song in two parts - the second part somehow making sense of the first. The production “weirdness” mirrors the lyrical intention.

lyrics

Call it exactly what it is
Speak the words
That you've never really said
You can tell it to the heavens
Or you could tell it somebody else

Call it exactly what it is
Though I may see it
See it for something else
A word is not a weapon
Until the moment that it is
Wield it on your neighbour
Or you wield it on yourself

Call it
Call it exactly what it is

Don’t take from me what I can’t give myself
I’m not quite sure what you would want it for
So many times I've had to steal a story
So many times I’ve had to lose my head
However much I aim
I always miss
I’m not always game to call it what it is

credits

from Dominoes, released October 24, 2021
Dan is doing the electric guitar lines and Eliza is on the pretty vocals and I play the guitars and everything else.

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Cold Ghost Miami, Australia

Cold Ghost is the moniker for Gold Coast song-writer and musician Fletcher Babb.

2020's Love on the Beach is a triptych of love songs inspired by the scenario of Nevil Shute's apocalyptic novel 'On the Beach'.

The 2018 album Bachelor Tapes a mix of alt-folk, rock and psychedelia and was up for best release at the Gold Coast Music Awards.

Cold Ghost also curates Stories in the Key of GC. ... more

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