American Music Club - What Holds the World Together (San Francisco)
The wind pulls me around
and everything it touches turns weak
An antique or an eyelash stuck to your cheek
The paper thin skin of a crowd chasing you
Down a long and dead-end trail
With a guilt no alibi can curtail
The world is held together by the wind
That blows through Gena Rowland's hair
Land ahoy I fill my weak lungs with this joy
Dizzy on the deck I hope I last until we land
With an envelope burning a hole in my hand
Bearing the names of the winners who walked away
From the games that the slaves love to play
To replace the air and the sea
Leaving you no way to fly to me
The world is held together by the wind
That blows through Gena Rowland's hair
Through the window
the warm summer air does a two-step
I wish there was some way I could keep it
And clear away the Mission Street in my head that
Keeps this watery weariness in our bed and
Sets up more windmills that I'll waste my time missing
When it should just be your lips that I'm kissing
Don't tell me that you don't hear
The clock ticking on the shelf by our bed it's near
There's a light turning green just like fear
There's a light that turns green
and leaves us without a prayer
The world is held together by the wind
That blows through Gena Rowland's hair
Billy Griffin...Hold Me Tighter In The Rain (03:46)
Billy Griffin is sometimes thought of as 'just the singer that replaced Smokey Robinson in The
Miracles'. There is no doubting, however, that he is a fine singer in his own right. He auditioned
for Motown in Los Angeles in the early 70's and became the lead singer with The Miracles in 1971.
Billy sang with such groups as Last Dynasty, before eventually joining the Miracles. Replacing
Smokey Robinson, Billy was not a professional singer, and many doubted his longevity with the group.
In 1975 ...