Janiva Magness – Strong As Steel

Blues

Filmed at Space. Evanston, IL
By Akash Wadhwani/Blain Smith/Jeff Tapp

Lyrics:
Big wheels keep on turning
Just like Sister Tina sang
I walk slow when bridges are burning
It was a good 20 years I never saw the light of day

Echo Bodine said the spirits are watching over me
and I’ll be kicking and screaming to the finish line

Crashed my car off the side of a hill
Drank a bottle of jack and took a whole lotta pills
I’m bad business for the devil ‘cause I’m so hard to kill
Like my mama’s mama I am strong as steel
Strong as steel
Like my mama’s mama I am strong as steel
Strong as steel

So shine on little darling
I paid my dues on the road singing hurricane
Kept my cocaine in a plastic Jesus
A miracle I made it past my 21st birthday

Echo Bodine said the spirits are watching over me
And I’ll be kicking and screaming to the finish line

I went right off that cliff and I landed in a tree
I been so used to losing
There ain’t nobody more surprised than me
I turned and faced my fire that’s been burning there forever
Let it burn all the way singin’ Amazing Grace
Left my heart light as a feather
And made me strong as steel

Crashed my car off the side of a hill
Drank a bottle of jack and took a whole lotta pills
I’m bad business for the devil ‘cause I’m so hard to kill
Like my mama’s mama I am strong as steel

Crashed my car off the side of a hill
Drank a bottle of jack and took a whole lotta pills
I’m bad business for the devil ‘cause I’m so hard to kill
Like my mama’s mama I am strong as steel
Strong as steel
Strong as steel
Strong as steel
I’m as strong as steel

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Vocal: Janiva Magness
Drums: Matt Tecu
Bass: Gary Davenport
Hammond B3 & Wurlitzer: Jim Alfredson
Guitars: Zach Zunis/Dave Darling
Percussion: Matt Tecu/Brie Darling
Backing vocals: Janiva Magness/Dave Darling
“Hard To Kill” Painting by Gunner Sixx

From the upcoming album “Hard To Kill”