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When the Whisky Runs Dry

from The Longing Kind (album) by Maz O'Connor

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    Released February 26, 2016

    All songs by Maz O'Connor
    Track 5 music by Maz O'Connor and Jim Moray
    Produced by Jim Moray
    Maz O'Connor: vocals, guitar, tenor guitar, piano, harmonium
    Beth Porter: cello
    Matt Downer: double bass
    Nick Malcolm: trumpet
    Chris Hillman: pedal steel
    Suzi Gage: harmony vocals
    Jim Moray: harmony vocals, drums and percussion, electric guitars, synths, hammond organ, mandolin, harmonium, banjo

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lyrics

It's been a long long time since I walked these streets at night
Helped home by these small town lights
Suddenly I had to see my grandfather's home
And tell the land he used to walk of all the troubles I've known

Of how love's not a game anymore
And my love's not the same anymore
Since he didn't know what I was loving him for

He said 'spend your love on another young man
One who knows what he is and will do what he can'
I still think of him when the whisky runs dry
If you see him won't you tell him it's all right
If you see him won't you tell him it's all right

Oh he loved me so fast when he should have gone slow
And I didn't know things I really should have known
Didn't mean to throw the dice and wasn't told when I had
But I can see now oh my throw must have been bad

And now love's not a game anymore
And my love's no the same anymore
And he didn't know what I was loving him for

He said 'spend your love on another young man
One who knows what he is and will do what he can'
I still think of him when the whisky runs dry
If you see him won't you tell him it's all right
If you see him won't you tell him it's all right

So I heard he's back in town I heard he's working now
It's gonna be his time this time around
Well I suppose everyone knows that's just the way it goes
And I'll be heading back too in a week or so

Just as soon as I've seen the leaves turn gold
And fall down all around my grandfather's home
And when I'm wrapping up warm in my mother's old clothes
Oh I know, oh I know, oh I know

Love's not a game anymore
And my love's no the same anymore
No I don't know what I was loving him for

He said 'spend your love on another young man
One who knows what he is and will do what he can'
I still think of him when the whisky runs dry
If you see him won't you tell him it's all right
If you see him won't you tell him it's all right

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from The Longing Kind (album), released February 26, 2016
When the Whisky Runs Dry
(Marie-Louise O’Connor) SGO Music Publishing Ltd (PRS)

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Maz O'Connor London, UK

Singer and songwriter based in London
'remarkable songwriting talent....captivating voice ****' Q Magazine

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