Hold on to the Night

from See You in Marfa (EP) by Salim Nourallah

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The See You in Marfa EP is a collaborative effort with English guitarist/songwriter/producer, Marty Willson-Piper. Marty spent over 30 years in the Australian band, the Church. During the Fall of 2018 Salim assembled his long-time band of John Dufilho (Deathray Davies/Apples in Stereo), Joe Reyes (Buttercup), Richard Martin (Shibboleth) and Jason Garner (Polyphonic Spree) for the first time since 2011's Hit Parade. Along with Marty, co-producing and playing guitar, the group of six musicians cut an album and a half's worth of songs in a Nashville studio called Welcome to 1979. Plans to release a full length album of the material fell through when the Covid pandemic struck in March of 2020 and forced Marty to cancel plans to come to the United States and tour with Salim. Salim ended up indefinitely shelving the album, A Nuclear Winter. The five song See You in Marfa EP includes bonus material from the Nashville sessions as well as "Hold on to the Night," a song Salim and Marty wrote together.

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I carried around part of this tune for a few years. I loved the "hold on to the night before you let in the day" bit but couldn't manage to write anything else that lived up to it. I tried and tried. I even dragged other songwriters into the mess. I hijacked my friend, Alex Dezen, at a songwriting camp in 2014 to help me finish it but scrapped what we came up with and buried the song. When Marty came to town in 2018 I played it for him one afternoon and we stood around the kitchen, merrily bouncing lines off of each other. With his help and encouragement the rest of the song finally fell into place. I felt at least 15 pounds lighter afterwards!

lyrics

hold on to the night before you let in the day
hold on to the night before you give it away

so many things that you can do
why go to sleep when the skies’ full of jewels?
the music’s flowing just like wine
have a good time!
before you let in the day

hold on to the night before you give it away
hold on to the night before you let in the day

you wanna dance? then go ahead!
all your big plans can go to bed
if the cops show up i bet they’d stay
to join the fun
before it goes away

you can read or paint and laugh
have some ice cream in the bath
lay on your pillow, close your eyes
you’ve had some fun and now you’re tired

so wake up, wake up!

before you let in the day
here comes another day
here comes another day
wake up, work, no play
good luck keeping the bills at bay
here comes another day

hold on to the night!

credits

from See You in Marfa (EP), released May 1, 2022
Salim:lead vocals
Paul Averitt: backing vocals
Joe Reyes: electric guitars
Marty Willson-Piper: electric guitars
Richard Martin: keyboards
Jason Garner: Bass
John Dufilho: drums

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PSR Music Group Dallas, Texas

We used to be Palo Santo but now we're Happiness under the PSR music Group. Salim Nourallah and Alex Dezen run this thing so you can have an option for music that doesn't involve the Sony Music Group.