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Keepsakes and Heartbreaks

from Hard Frost by Annie Keating

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I’m staring at the table where my ring sits
Wondering what on earth I’m gonna do with it
You’re gone but it’s still here my wedding band
That for so many years lived upon my hand

Do I throw it in the river or keep it safe
Is it now bad luck or just an old keep sake
Should I leave on the table soaking up the sun
Or drop in a well when the evening comes

CHORUS
Thering that was on my finger can you take it off my hands
I got no use for diamonds but I’ll find love again
The ring that was on my finger you can throw it to the sea
Cause the road ahead is calling, goodbye hard luck memories

It’s funny what happens when two souls part
Twenty years of memories that red deck of cards
We used to play rummy in the early days
Now the cards are just dusty parked on the ashtray

The pink one you gave me when I still smoked
I bought you that ugly brown leather coat
Funny all the things left after you’ve gone
Faded love letters, two chairs on the lawn

CHORUS
This ring that was on my finger can you take it off my hands
I got no use for diamonds but I’ll find love again
The ring that was on my finger you can throw it to the sea
Cause the road ahead is calling, goodbye hard luck memories

Memories caught like beetles in amber
The two of us happy the pictures remember
Snow fall, your laughter me catching your fall
Old photos packed up fresh off the wall

And I wonder how long now it will take to fade
The line on my finger that this ring made
You did me wrong, but I wish you well
Oh all the stories that one ring may tell

This ring that was on my finger can you take it off my hands
I got no use for diamonds but I’ll find love again
The ring that was on my finger you can throw it to the sea
Cause the road ahead is bright free of hard luck memories

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from Hard Frost, released June 1, 2023
Written by Annie Keating

Produced by Teddy Kumpel
Engineered and Mixed by Matt Shane (mixed at Joe’s Garage in Brooklyn)
Additional engineering by Teddy Kumpel
Recorded at Atomic Sound and Teddy’s House of Fun
Mastered by Fred Kevorkian, Kevorkian Mastering, inc.

THE BAND
Annie Keating - lead vocals, acoustic guitar
Steve Williams - drums and percussion
Richard Hammond - electric and acoustic bass and backing vocals on Keepsakes and Heartbreaks & Sunshine Parade
Todd Caldwell - piano, organ, mellotron, organ rhodes, accordiotone and wurlitzer
Teddy Kumpel - acoustic guitar, electric and slide guitar, 12 string guitar, bass, shakers and background vocals

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Annie Keating Brooklyn, New York

Lucinda Williams. John Prine. Bob Dylan. Allison Krauss. Willie Nelson, Bonnie Raitt. Emmylou Harris - A short list of the musicians Keating has been compared to. She writes and sings like a woman who knows that heartache is the price of hope, and she can make us believe -- in that way that only the best artists can -- that all of it is worth the cost. ... more

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