A paperboy's blues, except it doesn't sound like a blues.
These long cold nights of sleet and rain
They sure can drive a man insane
Here comes the messenger of doom
Brings the apocalypse into your room
These long cold nights
These long cold nights
The flu is spreading by the hour
Life is sweet but pain is sour
The food is poison on your plate
The ambulance is always late
Police corrupt, politicians too
Customs waving smugglers through
These long cold nights
These long cold nights
These long cold nights, they take their toll
It sure ain't plain old rock'n'roll
There is a pain in my right big toe
From running up stairs and sliding through snow
These long cold nights
These long cold nights
© 2022 Tomas Thunberg
@johnstaples Mar 2022
Such beautiful guitar picking! And your wise and weary vocals really deliver the goods to make this such a beautiful song! "Long Cold Nights" is a great hook/title! Such sage observations, especially that second section with poison food and late ambulance! Wow! This is a terrific new song.
@mikedebenham Feb 2022
A sweeter, more yearning sound that you usually aim for, but the lyrics are as jet black as ever. This is really good. Beautiful delivery on the chorus.
@southcoasting Feb 2022
Oh my, hope you feel better Tom! But as usual, you carry this feeling wth aplomb, and I love the obvious Tom Waites reference in the performance. And i liked the way the lyric switches easily from the personal into the political. The whole thing works well for me.
@kenmattsson Feb 2022
Love the line "Life is sweet but pain is sour". There's such a weariness to your delivery, which is obviously in character of the song. So moving.
@richardmasters Feb 2022
You have made bleakness into a beautiful thing here - you have captured how inescapable the 'real' world has become - scurrilous news creeps into every nook and cranny, into every log cabin, no matter how remote.
@pumpkinhead Feb 2022
The melody captures the hardship for sure and in verse two you really documented the times we live in, especially if you follow some of the media. I hate these long cold nights as well but I do like some of the songs written about it and this is one of them.
Peace
@tcelliott Feb 2022
I've missed your music. This sounds beautiful. It's gorgeous.
@coolparadiso Feb 2022
Such deep lyrics for such pretty picking and beautiful delivery! Really like this one!
@sheslin Feb 2022
I just love your picking pattern so beautifully played, and your emotive vocals with that light touch of rasp are heaven to my ears. Your performance males me feel like I am sitting in the front row a house concert where there is total silence listening to this gorgeous song.