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Mt. Joy

Silver Lining

Release date: 2nd November 2017

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About This Track

Matt Quinn wrote 'Silver Lining' as a message to a friend caught in the grip of addiction. The song moves between direct address and reflection, urging its subject to hold onto something precious even as drugs, women, wine and loss threaten to consume everything. The refrain is simple and insistent: wear your silver lining close to your skin. Quinn draws on shared memory to anchor the song's emotional weight. A cross-country drive, New Orleans, a moment of roles reversed (you were tripping, I was driving) become the scaffolding for something larger: a meditation on how friendship survives when one person is falling. The song doesn't offer easy answers or recovery narratives. Instead it acknowledges the pull of self-destruction whilst insisting on the small, stubborn acts that might hold a person steady: tell the ones you love you love them; teach only what you know; let the music play you through the pain.

"Silver Lining" is a single by Mt. Joy, released 2nd November 2017. Full lyrics are available below.

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Lyrics

Silver Lining

Up on the mountain
Caught on the rail line
Up on the mountain
Caught on the rail line

My brother, let the heart just beat
Drink your wine, smoke your weed
My brother, let the heart still beat

And wear your silver lining
Wear it close to your skin

But if it's the drugs, the women, the wine, the weed
The love that took everything I own
Just take it oh oh oh
And tell the ones you love you love them
And teach only what you know, and oh
You better know it well

We drove from coast to coast
Down in New Orleans
Where the levees broke

You were tripping
I was driving
You were running
I was hiding
And you know I know how that feels
Don't get cheated kid
Just sweep from your heels
And if you get carried away
Let the music play you through the pain

And wear that silver lining
Wear it close to your skin

But if it's the drugs, the women, the wine, the weed
The love that took everything I own
Just take it oh oh oh
And tell the ones you love you love them
Teach only what you know, and oh
You better know it well

Up on the mountain
Caught on the red light
Up on the mountain
Caught on the rail line

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    Credits

    Production & Engineering

    Writer
    Matt Quinn
    Producer
    Jon Gilbert
    Bass
    Michael Byrnes
    Drums
    Sotiris Eliopoulos
    Guitar
    Matt Quinn, Sam Cooper
    Keyboards
    Jackie Miclau
    Vocals
    Matt Quinn
    Electric Piano
    Andy Butler
    Harmony Vocals
    Jon Gilbert, Lori LeChien
    Mastering Engineer
    Joe Lambert, Joe Lambert Mastering
    Mixing Engineer
    Jon Gilbert
    Percussion
    Jon Gilbert
    Synthesizer
    Andy Butler
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