Name: Howl On
Duration: P00H03M45S
Description: This is the debut single from the album Astronaut. The song circles around grief and the human instinct to keep moving forward through difficult times.

Howl On

by Alan Swanwick

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This is the debut single from the album Astronaut. The song circles around grief and the human instinct to keep moving forward through difficult times.

lyrics

Left, left, left right left

Left, left, left right left

Left, left, left right left

Left, left, left right left

Skinny dame, bone chain, rattle like the rain,

Dead dog, squealing hog, morphine brain.

Jesus on a spinning top spirralling,

Whiskey in a bone cup, high as a hymn, I'm high as a hymn.

Oh mama, howl on,

them boys meant no harm, them girls are full of charm,

Won't you let me out.

Left, left, left right left

Left, left, left right left

Left, left, left right left

Left, left, left right left

Rock and roll will save your soul I God damn swear,

Standing at the dark gate of the cosmic glare,

There's a machine up there, there's a machine down here,

The big machine will eat the soul,

The machine don't care

The machine don't care

The machine don't care

Oh mama, howl on,

them boys meant no harm, them girls are full of charm,

Won't you let me out.

Left, left, left right left

Left, left, left right left

Left, left, left right left

Left, left, left right left

Oh maybe it's hard won, I roll up my sleeves for fun,

And I drag down my soul ton by ton till I know it's done,

(guitar solo)

I was summonsed by the law of the land,

Fill my head full of lead, poison in my hand,

I reached down the gullet, and it swallowed me whole,

Into the belly of the metropolis, into a city of headstones,

into a city of headstones, into a city of headstones.

Oh mama, howl on,

them boys meant no harm, them girls are full of charm,

Won't you let me out.

Left, left, left right left

Left, left, left right left

Left, left, left right left

Left, left, left right left

Left right left,

Left right left,

Left right left.

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released October 28, 2022

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Alan Swanwick Cork, Ireland

Cork songwriter Alan Swanwick's debut album was released 2022. He released a Christmas song Tinsel Town November 2023.

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Tinsel Town

Sep 2023
Astronaut

Dec 2022
Howl On

Oct 2022

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