Stories is the first single from my forthcoming debut album, The Way Back.
The song is about missing the last trains back home after gigs in far away towns, sneaking into bed and breakfast hotels, street drinking, and growing up with your best friends. Because it's not about the destination, it's about the journey there.
Recorded over several months in Cambridgeshire, UK, and featuring loads of highly talented comrades, Stories is a perfect example of what to expect from The Way Back when it is released very, very soon.
lyrics
It’s gotta’ be more than just a must
That our purpose in this life is to adjust,
Every time you hit a wall, bad luck,
The seas get rougher, and then we stutter.
Maybe it’s something more than fate,
Going out on the town, and we can’t see straight,
Laugh out loud when we make mistakes
Under covers, or in the gutters.
Where’s this song gonna’ take us?
Where we gonna’ go today?
What stories await us
When we step right off the train?
‘Cause folk like us need open spaces,
The blue skies and the rain,
Then when we wake up, hungover,
We’ll do it all again,
We’ll be okay.
We’ll go down the slow lane,
And make the journey last a while longer.
We can take the stop train,
And tell our stories all night and day.
We’ll sing our blues away.
Sometimes, it’s a better choice to pretend
That your life means more when you’re out with friends,
Though not all of us will reach the end,
We came from nothing, we’ll leave with nothing.
Maybe we could call these nights a joke,
Drinking rum in a park, ‘cause we’re always broke,
Camberwell, to Alton, to Basingstoke,
It isn’t something, it isn’t nothing.
So, we’ll go on singing
Every word, of every line,
Until the music stops, our mouths run dry
And our hearts beat out of time,
Folk like us can’t work in silence,
Compliance, or control,
We’ll go on burning signal fires
As we metre out our souls,
The flame burns slow.
We’ll go down the slow lane,
And make the journey last a while longer.
We can take the stop train,
And tell our stories all night and day.
We’re far from the top, but
We can stop ourselves from going under,
So raise them if you’ve got them,
And we could sing our blues away.
We’ll sing our blues away.
credits
from Stories,
track released April 22, 2016
Asher Baker - Vocals, Lyrics, Guitar
James Routh - Guitar, Bass Guitar
Luke Hesketh - Drums
Rosaleen Morshead - Viola, Piano
David Bird - Backing Vocals
Kelsey Beth-Crossley - Backing Vocals
Jemma Rodgers - Backing Vocals
Stuart Lawrence - Backing Vocals
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