Hold Still [digital download]

Track 01 from Port Velvet's debut album, Midnight is Calling (out April 2025)

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Released February 21, 2025

HOLD STILL

Like water through a net, you slip right out the door
We’ve only just met / Who are you leaving for
I’ll save a place for you and hope we reconnect
There’ll be no trace of you until I least expect

We dance throughout the darkness but you scatter at first light
Hold still
I’m wanting you to reappear when I call out your name
Why won’t you

Hold Still / Hold Still / Hold Still 
Hold Still / Hold Still / Hold Still 

There’s no handle for the haze / You come and go as you please
I’m begging you to stay, but I’m cut off at the knees
I melt my armor down / I spin a spool of wire
I weave it round and round / The flicker of your fire

We dance throughout the darkness but you scatter at first light
Hold still
I’m wanting you to reappear when I call out your name
Why won’t you

Hold Still / Hold Still /  Hold Still 
Hold Still / Hold Still /  Hold Still 

Can’t hold on tight cause there’s nothing to grab
or hitch a ride cause you drive too fast 
Can’t make you out if you don’t hold still
I don’t even think I can prove you’re real 
Chains don’t work cause you pick the lock
I sweeten the deal then I watch you walk 
When I call it a day, you milk the clock
No pressure’s enough to make you talk

Can’t hold onto you cause there’s nothing to grab
or hitch a ride cause you drive too fast
I can’t make you out if you don’t hold still
I don’t even think I can prove you’re real
Chains don’t work cause you pick the lock
I sweeten the deal then I watch you walk
When I’m out of time, you milk the clock
No pressure’s enough to make you talk

Hold Still / Hold Still / Hold Still  
Hold Still / Hold Still / Hold Still

 

Written, arranged, engineered, performed, and mixed by Port Velvet
Mastered by Greg Calbi & Steve Fallone at Sterling Sound NJ