TIP: Amanda Ghost, “Blood on the Line”
TIP: Amanda Ghost, “Blood on the Line”
For once, an old-fashioned singer-songwritery tip. Amanda Ghost is perhaps best-known for having co-written “You’re Beautiful” with James Blunt. She also wrote “Beautiful Liar” for Beyonce and Shakira. But as you’ll see from this and other tracks of hers, she’s a compelling singer and songwriter on her own.
“Blood on the Line” is pretty straightforward lyrically, but beautifully done:
I don’t know how to shut my mouth,
no other way to let it out.
I have a voice that won’t be heard,
an empty cage without a bird.
I don’t know how I missed the sign,
Lord I must be blind,
But, that’s my blood on the line.
That’s my blood on the line.
Nicely put.
Hollywood Reporter are reporting the fall from grace of Amanda Ghost at http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/sony-music-exec-admits-radical-45996
I love the spin Stringer gives it! Whatever, she’s a great songwriter.