• Artist: Stewart Francke
  • Title: The Gypsum Fair
  • Genre: Pop - Adult Contemporary
  • Mood: Laid Back/Groovy
  • Speed: Medium Fast (95-130)
  • Instruments: Acoustic Piano, Real Drums/Drum Kit, Strings, Electric Guitar (Clean, Overdriven), Bass, Keyboards/Organs
  • Track type: Lyric - Full Length
  • Date added: 10/18/2011
  • Lyric themes: Storytelling, Change, Morality Tale, Truth Honesty, Independence
  • Lyrics: The Gypsum Fair The weeds bend west; Lizzie’s barefoot, walkin slowly ‘cross her bedroom floor. Her thirty years and all she counted on fall like dust on her slatted blinds. She takes the barrette from her hair, drapes her dress across the chair. She’ll act her age, be Daddy’s girl, one last time. With the window wide she hears all the lonely sigh. She puts on Patsy Cline and starts to cry. The things she pawned, the wild wreckage spared, to live a life her mother recognized. She feels the air warm on her skin, holds her shoulders so bone thin. Without a sound lets it begin; this is how it goes. She can ride High Banks Road in the pitch black air; she can dance all night at the Gypsum Fair. She can change her clothes, change her hair, now that love won’t make her safe. She hears her name whispered on the summer wind, sees a time to begin again. She takes the car keys from the hook, wastes her time with one last look. Turns the wheel toward Hammell Beach...this is how it goes. She can ride High Banks Road in the pitch black air; she can dance all night at the Gypsum Fair. She can change her clothes, change her hair, now that love won’t make her safe.
  • Keywords: light

About Stewart Francke

Stewart Francke

Huntington Woods, MI United States

Genres: Easy Listening, Gospel/Religious, Contemporary/Pop, Electronic Pop, Pop Rock, Electronic, Adult Contemporary, Roots Rock, Pop Rock, Classic/Soul
Stewart Francke

"Yea I've heard Stewart Francke...he makes beautiful music." -- Bruce Springsteen, 2006.

BIO
From humble beginnings in the Michigan industrial city of Saginaw to bright lights on national stages, Stewart Francke’s creative work has transformed the lives of thousands who’ve listened to his songs or read his writing. Since releasing his first album in 1995, Stewart has created a body of work cited by critics as spiritual in tone and remarkable in its emotional breadth. In 2009 ...

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