Ghost in a Hurricane
from Out of the Darkness by Nina Jo Smith
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Compact Disc (CD) + Digital AlbumThis is the CD! Thirteen songs and 4 poems. Produced by Ed Tree. Beautiful Trifold package includes booklet with lyrics.
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At a cafe in East Nashville I observed this man pacing and shouting across the street. The title comes from a misheard lyric by Tom Kimmel. It was rolling around in my spare parts drawer for years and finally found a home in this poem.
lyrics
Ghost in a Hurricane
Nina Jo Smith
© 2023 Redwood River Music
You get cash for clothes
sell blood for beer
It’s the end of the month
at the end of the year
At the end of the year
in freezing rain
Under the eves
your cupped hand again
Evaporate, forget the pain
Sleep in the shadows, walk in the rain
Evaporate, forget the pain,
You’re a ghost in a hurricane
Your cupped hand again
The street is dark
Rags with a bottle
pushing a cart
Pushing a cart
stoked with rage
Yelling the same thing
over again
Yelling the same thing over again
Light shifts under clouds
Light, then dark,
you go quiet, then loud
Quiet, then loud
Bursting at the seams
Evaporate, forget the pain
Ghost in a hurricane
Evaporate, release the pain
Ghost in a hurricane
Nina Jo Smith
© 2023 Redwood River Music
You get cash for clothes
sell blood for beer
It’s the end of the month
at the end of the year
At the end of the year
in freezing rain
Under the eves
your cupped hand again
Evaporate, forget the pain
Sleep in the shadows, walk in the rain
Evaporate, forget the pain,
You’re a ghost in a hurricane
Your cupped hand again
The street is dark
Rags with a bottle
pushing a cart
Pushing a cart
stoked with rage
Yelling the same thing
over again
Yelling the same thing over again
Light shifts under clouds
Light, then dark,
you go quiet, then loud
Quiet, then loud
Bursting at the seams
Evaporate, forget the pain
Ghost in a hurricane
Evaporate, release the pain
Ghost in a hurricane
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from Out of the Darkness,
released April 19, 2024
Nina Jo Smith narrator
Producer Recorded & mixed by Ed Tree at The Treehouse Studio, San Gabriel, CA
Mastering Mark Dann, New York, NY
Nina Jo Smith narrator
Producer Recorded & mixed by Ed Tree at The Treehouse Studio, San Gabriel, CA
Mastering Mark Dann, New York, NY
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Nina Jo Smith Costa Mesa, California
Nina Jo Smith plays acoustic guitar and ukulele. She stole her mother’s guitar at age10 and never looked back. Walks, bicycle rides, eavesdropping and close observation populate her songs with real and imagined characters from places she knows and loves. ... more
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