Music

The Love You’re In

Release Date: November 16, 2021

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<a href="https://faithmichelecurrent.bandcamp.com/track/the-love-youre-in-single">The Love You’re In (single) by Faith Michele Current</a>

It’s midnight
And I feel your trembling hands caress my skin
Hold me tight, it’s alright
Long as we both pretend that I’m the one who’s shaking.
Oh, I know, yes, I know
That you don’t understand the love you’re in

We found each other down a long and unfamiliar road
And when I looked into your eyes, I called what I saw home
But you just stood and cursed the stars
Because they’d once been cruel
But darling, no one has to play the fool

You don’t understand that no one has to take the fall
There’ll be days that fill with tears and times when there’s no pain at all.
Maybe those who came before me didn’t have the strength to stay
But darling, I’m beside you all the way.

It’s sunrise
And the early light is dancing ‘cross your pillow
Hold me tight, it’s alright
Did you think that I might leave you in the morning?
Oh, I know, yes, I know
That you don’t understand the love you’re in

I know we said some things last night we never should have said
I know we should have worked it out before we went to bed
But I don’t know how to make you see
It’s a fight, it’s not the end.
‘Cuz you don’t understand the love you’re in.

It’s midnight
And I feel your trembling hands caress my skin
Hold me tight, it’s alright
Long as we both pretend that I’m the one who’s shaking.

Music & lyrics — Faith Michele Current
Lead vocal — Faith Michele Current
Acoustic & electric guitar, bass, drums — Dusty Hughes
Pedal steel — Bart Nissen
Background vocals — Dusty Hughes, Faith Michele Current
Co-produced by Dusty Hughes and Faith Michele Current
Mixed/mastered by Dusty Hughes

Liner Notes

“The Love You’re In” is a song that has special significance to me.

First, because it’s one of the songs I was working on, but hadn’t finished, when I left Nashville. It’s rare in life that we get the opportunity to find closure in such a specific and tangible way and it feels very, very satisfying to finally liberate it from my head and set it free in the world.

The second and deeper significance for me is that the song was written as an homage to a singer/songwriter who means a great deal to me, so much in fact that I rarely even talk about her. Do you, too, have music that means so much to you that it hurts to listen to it?

Jessi Colter is responsible for igniting my dream of being a singer/songwriter. It’s rare, I think, for a kid’s favorite music to be the same as her parents’ favorite music, but growing up in our house, my parents and I pretty much loved the same music -- primarily Emmylou Harris, Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings and -- in a class by herself -- Jessi Colter. Hers are the first albums I would have bought with my own money, were it not for the fact that my parents already owned them.

Some of you might know Jessi Colter as the wife of Waylon Jennings. Or perhaps you know her most famous song, “I’m Not Lisa.” But most people don’t realize that Jessi Colter is the only female founding member of the Outlaw Country movement of the 70s that changed country music forever. Or that she is one of the finest country blues singer/songwriters and pianists in country music history.

If all you’ve heard of Jessi’s music is “I’m Not Lisa,” I would encourage -- no, beg and plead -- for you to listen to her landmark album “Jessi,” (https://open.spotify.com/album/61ul5XFs4y9fZi4lDNv5U5), one of the gutsiest, rawest, most powerful and original albums in any genre ever recorded. “The dark, torched landscape she creates (vocally and with her piano) on this album is a study in desolation and redemption, her voice rising with thrush-like clarity and power on one strophe, and then dissolving like sugar in a glass of whiskey,” wrote one reviewer and I couldn’t have put it better. (https://www.allmusic.com/profile/jonathankieran/reviews/58cc5cf7043284f993d7dc31).

At any rate, all of which is a long-winded way of saying that “The Love You’re In” is written as an homage to Jessi, in terms of her relationship to Waylon, but more importantly, to her songwriting/singing style. I’m particularly in love with the guitar solo, written and played by my talented collaborator, Dusty Hughes, as an homage to Waylon’s signature guitar sound.

I hope you enjoy listening as much as I enjoyed creating this song.