“Safe and Sound” and “Chin Up” by Yoke Lore

     If you attend a festival, there is a good chance that a band will surprise you. At BottleRock in Napa, California, we exited with an appreciation for the skills of Yoke Lore, which is the project of Adrian Galvin. With banjo and drummer Aaron Hamel, he generated an energy as one of the first bands at the festival. The below embedded video of Yoke Lore covering a Savage Garden single doesn’t properly represent the rousing performance, but it’s the only BottleRock video we found (thank you to Roman Gokhman).

     Yoke Lore is based in Brooklyn, New York. Adrian Galvin is an early member of Walk the Moon.

     “Safe and Sound” by Yoke Lore

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/yokelore/

Website: https://www.yokelore.com/

Lyrics of “Safe and Sound” by Yoke Lore

Your eyes burn like a torch in the winter

This fire won’t die tonight

All the days of the danger, believer

You’re my safe and sound

You’re my safe and sound

Sunrise by your side

We’ll find our own heights

Waking up in dark clouds

It’s a shakedown

Believe that all my love

And all my blood keep me up

I’m singing for my age

Cause I’m believing in the change

Sometimes on the warm days

My eyes blaze

I won’t let you down today

I’ll give you all the stars in the backyard

I’ll be your safe and sound

I’ll be your safe and sound

Sunrise by your side

We’ll find our own heights

Waking up in dark clouds

It’s a shakedown

Believe that all my love

And all my blood keep me up

I’m singing for my age

Cause I’m believing in the change

Lyrics of “Chin Up” by Yoke Lore

Your feelings they arrest you

The tragic, they will bless you

Don’t respect the past

Think the world’s unsafe

And think that you gotta act

Like you’re at peace with all of the facts

But I know that there’s much more to you than that

I know that there’s much more to you than that

I wish that you were happy in your skin

I wish that I could show you where the center is

But I believe the sleights are in your head

'Cause I will love you long after I’m dead

Chin up, chin up, chin up [Repeated 4x]

You’re reeling, then he wrecks you

Thrown out like the refuse

Bleach your hair, live in the sun

Make believe you’re just like everyone

A little man with a big gun

A little man with a big gun

I wish that you were happy in your skin

I wish that I could show you where the center is

I believe the sleights are in your head

'Cause I will love you long after I’m dead

Chin up, chin up, chin up [Repeated 8x]