Some time ago, I went to a gig in a now-closed-down venue in a backwater town with unreasonably early last trains. I was with my best friends Theo, Jamie and Sarah Alice. We made a tonne of mistakes that night, and had a lot of fun, before getting the slowest train ever back to civilisation in the morning.
Influences for this song include Rival Schools, Eagle Eye Cherry, Apologies I Have None, Great Cynics, Parliament and Dave Hause.
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 gain,
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 The Way Back,
released September 2, 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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