Matt Jaffe Music's video: Matt Jaffe - Rise Up Swinging Song Of The Week 15

Conventional wisdom has it that if a guitar is in tune with itself, it doesn't really matter if it's actually in tune. Unfortunately, this guitar was neither in tune with itself, nor in tune. So here's the song raw and wriggling, imperfections perfectly intact. On the bright side, this video marks the first international "Song Of The Week," (the first from outside the Bay Area, for that matter), coming to you all the way from the mountains surrounding Bogotá, Colombia. Sometimes a back catalog of many unreleased songs feels a bit like an albatross, making it tough to choose the tune each week, so we settled on this song via the titular pun, but at least the selection wasn't entirely arbitrary. I have been known to say this song is my favorite that I've written. I've also been known to mislead, so take that with a grain of salt. In the words of Elvis Costello, "when I said I was lying, I might have been lying." For further "wordplay as swordplay," check out literally his entire catalog. Until next time - MJ Matt Jaffe: geetar, vox Christina Alvarado: cinematography Chimo the Bernese Mountain Dog: costumes and make-up Website: http://www.mattjaffemusic.com YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/MattJaffeMusic Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/mattjaffemusic Twitter: @mattjaffemusic Instagram: @mattjaffemusic Lyrics: Rise Up Swinging - Matt Jaffe Tell me goodbye, if you really cannot stay If I should cry, please turn your head away The days are getting shorter, and the sun’s close to the ground But I’m gonna rise up, gonna rise up swinging, the days are coming down Talk to the wall in moments of despair Heaven will fall, revealing nothing there The sky’s been getting darker since you ain’t been comin’ round But I’m gonna rise up, gonna rise up swinging, the days are coming down All of my dearest friends are hidden to me now You never get there in the end if you don’t even start out What you’ve done is not enough to outrun your shadowed past You could’ve stayed and shared a love, but it would never, it would never last Ride like the wind, and leave me all alone Where you have been don’t tell you where you’re goin’ I’m down and out and dusty in a long forgotten town But I’m gonna rise up, gonna rise up swinging, the days are coming down Step on a train, I’ll run alongside the track Put me in pain when you don’t even look back I know that old steam whistle is a high and lonesome sound But I’m gonna rise up, gonna rise up swinging, the days are coming down