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Fell asleep on the bus and I woke up somewhere down in Baton Rouge
There was the smell of someone smokin’ and the sound of a guitar playin’ blues
You were lyin’ there beside me, sleepin’ lightly, I should have known that I was doomed
Over Jeff’s head in the bunk bed
In a shoebox rollin’ down Highway 32
It’s a good thing that by then your best friend knew how to show me a real good time
‘Cause you were lost down in the curtains or in a backroom gettin’ dressed and gettin’ high
And we don’t say goodbye, we just wait ‘til the next state ‘til the next time
But since I’m only here to love you won’t you lie to me and tell me you’re all mine
But if I could freeze the night
Just before the sunrise
I’d take your broken heart apart and put it back together and make it mine
And I’ll wipe the age from my eyes
Lay us out another line
Oh rock ‘n roll baby won’t you play that song just for me tonight?
You used to say I held the perfect songs and left ‘em scattered round for you to find
And if dreaming was reality then maybe we would get some sleep at night
If he does wrong there was a reason, if he don’t is that a reason I should smile?
He says “do more” I say “do less” and I watch as we wreck the best years of our lives
But if I could freeze the night
Just before the sunrise
I’d take your broken heart apart and put it back together and make it mine
And I’ll wipe the age from my eyes
Lay us out another line
Oh rock ‘n roll baby won’t you play that song just for me tonight?
Oh you know the one I like
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Toward the Tide
05:36
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I got a brand new bedspread where no man has ever slept
I got a brand new roadmap but I ain’t left the house quite yet
And I know every highway exit
From Jacksonville to Austin, Texas
Keep on pushin’ I don’t feel like restin’
I’m just wakin’ up
I’m gonna muster every bit of my speed
Push my heart and my lungs to breathe
‘Cause I am runnin away from me
Runnin’ away, runnin’ away
You could’a stopped me if you cared to try
But I guess you don’t, so neither will I
Never mind we never said goodbye
It’s just an empty line
Runnin’ away
Runnin’ toward the tide
Let’s talk about the bad decisions
The many times I press my luck
Let’s talk about why I keep drinkin’
Long after I am good and drunk
Oh, and if I make it out ahead this time
I swear I’m gonna save every single dime
And buy myself a place where I can go and hide for the rest of my life
Chorus
And the next time the waves pull me under
I’m gonna let ‘em take me out to sea
And the next time I hear rollin’ thunder
I’m gonna climb up to the tallest tree
Oh, you promised you would never watch me cry
But it all got twisted in the blink of an eye
If I can make it just until the summertime
I might just be alright
Chorus
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Whiskey Smile
06:56
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Pacing up and down the hallway
Wearing out the carpet on the floor
Thinkin’ ‘bout the words you said
That I don’t believe you really meant
But how could I argue with a slammin’ door?
Storm clouds creepin’ cross the valley
But I don’t mind their gloomy company
Oh, you’ve walked out before
But every time you come back for more
And every time you bring me to my knees
Oh, hallelujah, let it rain, rain, rain
Oh, hallelujah, let it storm
Creek is gonna rise
And the cotton will grow high
And my sorrow will sink into that Florida mud
You’re temperamental as this here vicious weather
But I’ll push and pull with you all night long
Oh God and the Devil
Must have worked together
To make a man so forgivably flawed
I do declare a good man’s gettin’ hard to find
But careless love just ain’t worth my while
But I’ll wash these worries down
With a taste of liquor harsh and brown you’ll never know it’s whiskey behind my smile
Chorus
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Gone
07:05
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Too close to sunset and too far from dawn
The time drags on, I withdraw
Been keepin’ my thoughts on the highest shelf
But I can tell, it’s time to tell
The record will show that I did my best
But let’s put it to rest, put this to rest
I wasn’t lyin’ when I said I love you
And that’ll always be true
I promise you
And I know
I could be wrong
For a while you’ve been holding my world up
And I know
You think I’m wrong
I wish I could tell you that this is enough
But I know what I have and I’ll lose what I must
Leave you alone in the desert dust
How can I know what to do ‘til it’s done?
‘Til I’m gone, gone, gone
You have become my everyday
Is that a reason to go or a reason to stay?
Wish I had the certainty of the tide
But I’m livin’ blind, I’m wandering blind
And dreaming of traveling does nothing at all
You got to move along when you hear the call
So to the west, to the south, or out to the sea
Lost and lonely, but wild I’ll be
Prechorus
Chorus
Change is as strong as a riptide
And it’s harsh and it’s cruel
It don’t take sides
But we’ll doubt and we’ll dream as the world passes by
‘Til we find the good in goodbye
But this isn’t enough
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Katie Skene Ventura, California
Electric swamp blues meets jam-band psychedelia...
Katie Skene is a blues & Americana
singer, guitarist and songwriter. Her music embodies the melding of her Southern roots with a decade spent on the West Coast. The result is a sound uniquely her own, infusing the twang of southern rock with the cosmic sounds of California.
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