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Scared Away The Song

by Jake Winstrom

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    Pressed on red "turbo tongue" standard weight vinyl. Features full-color inner sleeve with lyrics. Manufactured by Gotta Groove Records in Cleveland.

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1.
Won't you come and have a beer? / There's somebody that you've gotta hear playing downtown / I suppose you've got your choice / But tell me have you ever heard a voice like a sundown? / And no one's immune / From here to the moon / Don't she make you feel lonely? / The future and the never-was / Disappear into a whiskey buzz while she's singing / The bourbon is a hundred proof / But there's nothing stronger than truth that she's ringing / And no one's immune / From here to the moon / Don't she make you feel lonely? / Pour us up another round / As we genuflect inside the sound of an old soul / A thoroughbred is turned to glue / And a honky tonk is turned into a cathedral
2.
Her family moved from Pittsburgh / In the middle of the winter / She cried herself a river / That she skated into town / Trial by committee / Magnet school inner city / The boys thought she was pretty / But she hung around with clowns / Trailer park in Dandridge / His arm wrapped in a bandage / He really couldn't stand it / He could barely play guitar / Dreaming 'bout the new girl / Listening to Steve Earle / The images they unfurled / Like tape from a VCR / Breaking up the band / I always will remember / But I'll never understand / Speak now or hold your peace / Breath out a final curse / It's funny how a limousine / Can look just like a hearse / Chicken wings and sloe gin / At the Tipitina Ten Pin / She rallied to defeat him / Turkey in the final frame / Mulling over his fate / He wondered was it too late / To take back the cassette tape / That he'd labeled with her name? / With headphones like a tight fist / She listened to the tape hiss / Laughing 'cause he was no Kris Kristofferson of course / But he was in denial / On Cinco of De Mayo / Proposed to her in style / Margarita Trojan Horse / Breaking up the band / I always will remember / But I'll never understand / Speak now or hold your peace / Breath out a final curse / It's funny how a limousine / Can look just like a hearse / Children lose their childish ways / Blood brothers go their separate ways / We all know / Guitars are pawned for diamond rings / I never thought I was something you'd outgrow / Baptist church in Dandridge / I showed up empty-handed / The family disenchanted / With my tardiness I'm sure / Loitering by the punch bowl / Topsiders and no stubble / As I watched the happy couple / Dance each other cross the floor
3.
We're drinking on the steps after the doors are locked / You're placing one more bet / I'm pouring one more shot / You're a few dollars up but I'm not down / Recklessness is contagious in this town / I think I'll keep you around / Caroline, ugh / Love will find us / Keep me in your mind / Caroline, ugh / Love will find us / Seek and you shall find / I believe that all you need is time / The parking lot's alive / The tow truck is unkind / Our debutantes arrive / But we pay no mind / Cover bands are competing from all sides / Wrestling contraband from teenage brides / What's written on their backsides? / Caroline, ugh / Love will find us / Keep me in your mind / Caroline, ugh / Love will find us / Seek and you shall find / I believe that all you need is time / That I can't afford / 'Cause I want you more / Than the things I've chosen / Time, oh it slips away / Where I still can't say / So I just keep hoping
4.
Big black dog / Just a fur-covered pollywog / Lookin' worser than waterlogged / Starin' through the trees / He's got no name / Got no ball just a broken chain / Wet nose upon a window pane / A caravan of fleas / Tell me what it takes / What it takes to be / Tell me what it takes / What it takes to be / Somebody to you / Because you're everybody to me / Somebody to you / Because you're everybody to me / Big black lab / Crooked ear and a broken pad / Walkin' sideways like a soft-shell crab / Wobblin' at the knees / He's got no tags /Just a tongue and a tail that wags / For the home that he's never had / But he's always gonna see / Tell me what it takes / What it takes to be / Tell me what it takes / What it takes to be / Somebody to you / Because you're everybody to me / Somebody to you / Because you're everybody to me / Big black dog / Dishwasher and a mattress hog / Tennis ball and a mornin' jog / Chase away the geese / He knows his name / He knows his place in the world untamed / Is next to me in the pourin' rain / Pullin' on the leash
5.
You're coming to a fork in the road / How will you choose? / I wish I didn't know what I know / 'Cause either way I lose / You'll know it when you find it /You don't need to hide behind a vow / Can't you see you're meant for me? / Blue eyes don't fail me now / I've fallen to the back of the queue / I must confess / The only thing I don't wanna do / Is be your second best / But darling why am I still waiting / For what I know you won't allow? / Can't you see you're meant for me? / Blue eyes don't fail me now / And I don't need to know / Where you've been just where you want to go / Stealing a kiss at the bar / What used to be so easy got so hard / Tell me who you want me to be / And I'll comply / Although it isn't easy for me / To see the reason why / We worry about tomorrow / When all we have is here and now / Can't you see you're meant for me? / Blue eyes don't fail me now
6.
Turn your eyes away, my darlin' / There's only debris for you and me / Singing to the brokenhearted is not what it used to be / Can't you see? / If you keep heroes in ones and zeroes / How can you be sure / That they were ever real at all? / Smoke and mirrors are so much clearer than what I'm looking for / The singer scared away the song / Listen to the breeze, my darlin' / Raising its voice / Surface noise / Everybody's ears are starving / Begging for change / Ain't it strange? / If you keep heroes in ones and zeroes / How can you be sure / That they were ever real at all? / Smoke and mirrors are so much clearer than what I'm looking for / The singer scared away the song / Freedom isn't for the faint of heart / These corrupted files stretch a thousand miles / I don't know where to start / I don't know who to believe / If you keep heroes in ones and zeroes / How can you be sure / That they were ever real at all? / Smoke and mirrors are so much clearer than what I'm looking for / The singer scared away the song / Do you still want to sing along?
7.
Whippoorwill 02:56
Melody on the breeze / Bringing me to my knees / Oh I've been ignoring you too long / I've been turning the other cheek / In search of a word to speak / When I only had to sing along / You're on my windowsill / Whippoorwill / You're on my windowsill / Whippoorwill / I've been bangin' on my guitar / Inside of an empty bar / Feedback knockin' me back off my feet / There must be a better way / To say what you want to say / Without putting the clientele to sleep / You're on my windowsill / Whippoorwill / You're on my windowsill / Whippoorwill / Sing me to the break of dawn / I was wrong, I was wrong / Sing me through the lonesome night / You were right, you were right / You were right as the fallin' rain / Rap-tap-tappin' upon my pane / Soaking my imagination through / Never again will I / Be so lonesome that I could cry / Crying only makes me think of you
8.
Unglued 03:52
Listen to the coffee grinder grindin' / Rattlin' the kitchen like a downtown train / It took you half a cup to make your mind up / Divvied up the dogs / Gave back my name / Now I'm only brewin half a pot / I only know that I am where you're not / You fired in the dirt /But still it's gonna hurt / Forever and day for what it's worth / My heart won't come unglued / I wonder if you are / Belly to the bar / Swayin' to the rhythm of a steel guitar / My heart won't come unglued / I can feel the cast iron cast aspersions / Servin' up the bacon with a side of smoke/ The sirens are a-singin' / And my eyes are stingin' / I'm choking back the tears / And holding on to hope / That I'll hear your key inside the door / That it's only me you're looking for
9.
Creature of habit returns with the same sad smile / There’s nothing left here to learn / Nothing worthwhile / You used to talk out loud / I was spellbound / They couldn’t strike you out / They bulldozed the playground / Creature of habit sits down at the same bar stool / No one to buy you a round / So you break your own rule / There's nothing that these eyes couldn’t burn through / I hate to see these eyes with no one to turn to / Wait for tomorrow for a thousand years / I could drink about a thousand beers / We'll always be in the way / But we have nothing to fear / Creature of habit returns to the old high school / Carved on a desk are your words / And they seem so cruel / Bullshit poetry in the first degree / Bullshit poetry but it speaks to me
10.
I saw you pick a fight by candlelight / I saw you grind the world to a halt / The only maitre d' in Tennessee / You had him crying out "it's not my fault" / All the while is that a grimace or a smile? / No one can tell / A hundred miles / Now we're waiting single file to wish you well / They're ringing out the bells / Lightning rod, lightning rod / Close your eyes / Prepare to meet your god / Lightning rod, lightning rod / Close your eyes, close your eyes / Another coat of paint don't make a saint / You've gotta chip away your whole life / If you don't feel at home in flesh and bone / You know you got at least one thing right

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released May 25, 2018

ALL SONGS BY JAKE WINSTROM

PUBLISHED BY MEAUX MONEY MEAUX MUSIC (BMI) © 2018

PRODUCED BY JEFF BILLS

“CREATURE OF HABIT” AND “BREAKING UP THE BAND” PRODUCED BY ERIC NOWINSKI

“FROM HERE TO THE MOON” PRODUCED BY RAY KENNEDY

MIXED BY JEFF BILLS, GRAY COMER, ERIC NOWINSKI, SCOTT MINOR, RAY KENNEDY

ENGINEERED BY JACOB VEAL, GRAY COMER & JOHN TOD BAKER, ERIC NOWINKSI, RAY KENNEDY

RECORDED IN TENNESSEE AT VR MUSIC GROUP, THE ARBOR STUDIO, ROCK SNOB RECORDING, ROOM & BOARD STUDIO

MASTERED BY PAUL GOLD AT SALT MASTERING IN BROOKLYN

ARTWORK AND SLEEVE DESIGN BY JARRED ELROD

COVER PHOTOGRAPHY BY SAM WINSTROM

INNER SLEEVE PORTRAIT BY TANYA SALAZAR PHOTOGRAPHY

THANKS TO MOM, DAD, KATE, SAM, STEVE, LIBBY, VICKY, JACKSON, AND THE HEROIC HORDE OF MUSICIANS WHO SO GENEROUSLY GAVE THEIR TIME AND TALENT TO THIS RECORD

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