Taste Test: Lane Simkins remembers ‘What You Were’
The folksy songwriter remembers a past lover on his new song.
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The sting of forlorn love is not so easy to soothe. The wound swells, reddens and sends a pulsing, barbed ache throughout your entire body. New Jersey’s folksy storyteller Lane Simkins gives his all in regaling a mournful tale of heartache on his new song. “What You Were” finds him wandering through the empty, brutally-haunted halls of the past as he seeks for solace and perhaps even a guiding light. He drags his tattered heart behind him, scruffy and beaten. “You were magic, yeah, you were gold / Now a long lost story just waiting to be told,” he sings, using his teardrops as a watercolor painting. His words are delicate but carry with them the weight of the world, eliciting a truly towering performance.
“What You Were” is the latest single release, coming on the heels of “Wretch.”
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