Like many a good folk tune, Max García Conover‘s latest track speaks loudly and gently for itself. Named for the bright red suit from the 90s in its cover photo, “Handsome Suit” is filled with intimate visual snapshots of cold weather and realistic family moments. The gentle pulse of its strummed guitar presses on onward below the ups and downs of the melodic phrasing. It’s a soft and simple song that wastes no time in unveiling the emotion in its lyrical portraits.
Listen to more from Max García Conover here. Dive into the lyrics of “Handsome Suit” below:
half puerto rican in a handsome suit
skinny little nothing in the buffalo news
half light ticking on the falling snow
accidental baby and she moved back home
you’re crying in the kitchen and you don’t know why
drunk granddaddy in a santa tie
broke wood stove in the living room
half puerto rican in a handsome suit
boy you’re gonna wake to the pain everyone’s in
and what do you do then
crazy lady shoveling the whole damn road
three gold deer in the hip high snow
radiator hissing and you cover his feet
runaway jury on tnt
she was always saying aw for crying out loud
once you start thinking that you’re lost you’re found
once you start thinking that you’re good you’re not
we never got happy but we laughed a lot
boy you’re gonna wake to the pain everyone’s in
and what do you do then
clear cut trees in the catseye air
grabby motherfucker in the boss’s chair
you don’t want to be another killing kind
staring out the window in a killing time
you don’t want to be another killing kind
staring out the window in a killing time
boy you’re gonna wake to the pain you’re in
boy you’re gonna wonder what do you do then
there’s a broke wood stove in the living room
and a half puerto rican in a handsome suit
