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Blood Countess

from Orphan Songs by Matt Nakoa

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Sarah Kowalski In my mind, a counter to "Light in the Dark," this song is a little walk on the darker, but equally brilliant side of Matt's lyrical gold--a song spanning four centuries of the vapid pursuit of glamour.
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Blood Countess

Blood Countess, Blood Countess
Never growing old
It seems the evil beauty fiend’s still
Gossip column gold
The glossy skin, the body thin
It never is enough
You could fill the bathroom tub from all my paper cuts
If that would keep you feeling young ...

Blood Countess, Blood Countess
Red carpet splash
The whole world’s mad for you now girl
But can the magic last?
If you're lonely for somebody
Let me be your boy to bleed
I ain’t the flame old Satan was, but Honey,
How ‘bout you and me?
Oh, please ...

Save me from fading away
Say that you’ll die without my love
I’ll save you from wasting away
Baby, it’s a matter of time.

Blood Countess, don’t doubt this
Secret is safe
Maintaining face and perfect grace
Is murder in this day and age, oh
Come from the page to my chamber tonight
We can ease each others’ lowly, lonely minds
If you would only come alive!

Save me from fading away
Say that you’ll die without my love
I’ll save you from wasting away
Baby, it’s a matter of time.

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from Orphan Songs, track released October 29, 2012
Music & Lyrics by Matt Nakoa

Matt Nakoa - vocals, piano
Ryan Harris Brown - electric guitar
Eric French - electric guitar
Walter Skorupski - bass
Corey Schreppel - drums
Eric Pfeifer - soundscape design

Recorded by James Zaner @ Bluejay Studios, Neale Eckstein @ Fox Run Studios, & Corey Schreppel @ The Schrepcot Center.
Mixed & Mastered by Eric Pfeifer
Produced by Matt Nakoa

Photo by Neale Eckstein
Art Design by Danielle Mulcahy

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Matt Nakoa is an award-winning songwriter, singer, and multi-instrumentalist. A modern troubadour, he makes his home on the highways and concert stages of America, and appears regularly with folk music icon Tom Rush. The Boston Globe says of Nakoa, “Between his piano chops and heartfelt originals on guitar, he drops jaws.” ... more

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