Butch Walker - Holy Water Hangover (Official Video)

So…

I went back to my piano (the same piano i wrote almost the entire “Letters” album on almost 20yrs ago) where sometimes there’s just an inherent emotion that comes with that particular instrument when I sit down to play it. I had no ideas. No songs. No words, really. So I just sat and played whatever my fingers guided me to.

I know… Sounds pretty hippy dippy of me. But between reaching for all of my rock n roll piano balladeer muses of my youth while driving or motorcycling, and feeling a common thread of snarky humor with sad reality, I started a journey for this new crop of songs.

A theme will sometimes pop up when I start to culminate lyrics while writing records (yes yes including that rock opera record awhile back), and I couldn’t help but feel a theme of someone choosing the life of a bar singer (it’s my night shift when i am not in the studio making music by day).

It’s a great gig, don’t get me wrong. But when you’ve done it for this many years, the ups and downs of it… The countless nights of maybe playing to a packed room one night, then playing the next night in another town to just the bartender… The bar fights from jackasses that take the spotlight when you’re playing your best song… Or doing a show so good OR so bad that it makes you cry after…. You can see how it can feel like a drug.

The lows are low as fuck. The highs are pretty good. Either way, its a bizarre choice for a so-called “career”.

Reflecting on all of this, I said to myself, “Okay… you haven’t really written a record that feels like a soundtrack to all the rock balladeer bar singers out there.. and you know you wanna…”

I should probably give this album about a bar singer a name, right?

Why? Because like a promising young singer from New Jersey once said, “I’m just tired and bored with myself”. In this case, I chose my middle name, after my great uncle that i never knew, but I heard was a real character.

Please silence your cell phones. Ladies and Gentleman.. A warm welcome for…

Glenn

Directed by: Bobbi Rich
Produced by: Eric Fisher
Butch Walker as Glenn
The Band: Veronica Bianqui, Dash Hutton, Zeh Monstro
Featuring: Scarlet Kapella
Production: Dougie Stuckey, Madeline Power
Director of Photography: Erik Bragg
Steadicam Operator: Ryan Murphy
Key Grip: JQ Da Silva
Best Boy Grip: Noah Markham
Grip: Jake Fandel
Hair & Makeup: Sydney Costley
Special Thanks to: The Bob Baker Marionette Theater,
Missy, Winona, and Alex

New album Butch Walker as... Glenn out Aug 26: https://ButchWalker.lnk.to/glenn

New song "Holy Water Hangover" out now: https://ButchWalker.lnk.to/holywaterh...

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LYRICS
I live on Margarita St.
In Santa Monica
I work a corporate job that pays

The address makes me skint
But it ain’t Florida
Too young to live there anyways

Down in Boca, they deny that anything is real
It’s the southern most cities it seems
Where the newlyweds all become nearly-deads
In a mega church bustin' at the seams

So give a Hollywood hallelujah
A Hail Mary from the soap box above
A little hope Is better than nothing
When you’re runnin’ on hate like it’s love

Lil’ hallelujah can’t do nothin' to ya
Life throws down like a crisp white glove
A sip of hope will quench ya
Push comes to shove

Danny sits alone with a crucifix
And a bag of China white cocaine
With a holy water hangover creepin’ in
Every sin playing tag in his brain

Last night after the sermon
He hit it hard - left his blood on the bar
Ain’t it funny when the mirror looks back at you
And it don’t know who you are

So give a Hollywood hallelujah
A Hail Mary from the soap box above
A little hope Is better than nothing
When you’re runnin’ on hate like it’s love

Lil’ hallelujah can’t do nothin' to ya
Life throws down like a crisp white glove
A sip of hope will quench ya
Push comes to shove

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