Danny Michel’s “Tell Sally”

This wonderful song is from Danny Michel’s latest album, Feather, Fur & Fin. The banjo and harmonica are placed just right to keep some motion in the song while also portraying the slowness and downbeat nature of the writer’s situation. My favorite line is the last one of the first verse, “I pace like a lion all around my bed.” What perfect imagery.

You can listen to “Tell Sally” at CBC Radio 3, or you could buy it from the iTunes Store.

I sat through the morning till the morning up and fled
I held up in my bunker, I held up in my head
The fridge in here is empty and all the plants are dead
I pace like a lion all around my bed

So tell Sally I can’t see her, it only makes me weaker
Tell Sally I’m gon’ leave her, ‘less I’m her only one, only one
Tell Sally, that deceiver, how can I now believe her?
Tell Sally I’m gon’ run, ‘less I’m her only one, only one

I sat through the evening till the evening left me, too
I sleep beside the phone and hope to hear from you
And so I take me hostage and demands, I have a few
All I need is one thing: for you to be true

So tell Sally I can’t see her, it only makes me weaker
Tell Sally I’m gon’ run, ‘less I’m her only one, only one
Tell Sally, that deceiver, how can I now believe her?
Tell Sally I’m gon’ run, ‘less I’m her only one, only one