Things We Carry
Written by: Zack Kibodeaux and Greg Essington

Anne Marie, I saw you on the screen
An old motion picture girl in black and white
You danced in my heart once upon a long, long time

I was younger then, still too old to see
Always one to give an answer, never questioned anything
And so imagine my surprise when you cast those doubtful eyes
And broke the silver walled dimension
My heart, and in the tension said

Oh now, with all the changes coming down
I'm falling in the aisle, and we’re growing older babe
Will you pick me up on your way? 'Cause when nothing stays the same
It's the things we carry

She lay down, spread her arms out on the ground
And told me how she’d hid the screenplay of her life
In a dressing room no one could ever find
And then I held her, and I whispered something sweet
I said I think it was a line from Shakespeare
Oh and Annie, you believed it, I said

Oh now, with all the changes coming down
I'm falling in the aisle, and we’re growing older babe
Will you pick me up on your way? ‘Cause when nothing stays the same
It’s the things we carry

Oh now Annie, I believe the desolation you receive
Might be the ending of the world, if you were any other girl

She flipped the light and went off dancing in the alley
As I stumbled through the lobby in the dark
I lit a candle and I thought, the best laid plans can run amok
But I chalk my love up to luck
I was the only boy around who laughed when you rolled into town and said

Oh now, with all the changes coming down
I’m falling in the aisle, you know I’m falling, we’re growing older babe
Will you pick me up on your way? ‘Cause when nothing stays the same
It’s the things we carry

© 2015 River Road Opera Co.(SESAC)/ Goat Lady Hill (SESAC) All rights reserved. Used by permission.


Things We Carry

John Henry
Written by: Zack Kibodeaux

Oh Johnny, six foot four
The baby grew so tall he couldn’t grow no more
Say don’t do this, and don’t do that
Everybody tellin’ him where it’s at he said

Momma, oh you know it hurts so bad
Yeah he said, Momma, oh you know it hurts so bad

He was born, a hammer in hand
The baddest mother’s son in the Promised Land
Now drive that steel, drive it hard
Won’t you drive it on home to the graveyard

Oh Johnny, swing that hammer
Oh Johnny, swing it right
Oh Johnny, swing that hammer
Swing it all day, swing it all night
Until the Judgment Day

See that man against the Machine
Working like a one who won’t be beat
Gonna break my back, have a heart attack
But I will not give up I will not but

Momma, oh you know it hurts so bad
Momma, oh you know it hurts so bad
Lord, it hurts so bad

Oh John is swingin’ it now,
Workin’ in Heaven on the gospel plow
Well now don’t do this, I do what I want
‘Cause the good Lord treats me right he says

Oh Johnny, yeah swing that hammer
Oh he says Johnny, won’t you swing it right
Oh the good, good Lord say Johnny, swing that hammer
Swing it all day, oh swing it all night
Into the Judgment Day

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John Henry

The haunting 4th track from Blue Water Highway Band's debut album, Things We Carry.  

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Greytown
Written by: Zack Kibodeaux and Greg Essington

Honey, I got my name upon the wall
In the ground floor level of desperation hall
And the heat is out, and the stairs don’t climb at all
Oh, but you can take the elevator down

Down to Greytown, where it don’t ever rain
Not in Greytown, no the light it shines all day
And it burns like fire all the colors out
Say when you gonna come and get me out, my Lord
‘Cause I’ve been praying

Well I belong to a storm inside my heart
And I drown in the worry from which I will not part
Oh, but the word is out that the boarding’s about to start
Calling all, the golden train is rolling out

Out of Greytown, where it don’t ever rain
Not in Greytown, oh the light it shines all day
And it burns like fire all the colors out
Say, when you gonna come and get me out, my Lord
‘Cause I’ve been praying
Oh that train I’m taking it

And though the ground I cannot walk on
And the water’s hard as stone
I believe you, I believe you
I was sad, but I was wrong
I wanted someone, Lord, to call
But you were shouting all along

© 2015 River Road Opera Co.(SESAC)/ Goat Lady Hill (SESAC) All rights reserved. Used by permission.


Greytown

Blue Water Highway comes from the working class, coastal town background that has informed the work of so many of rock’s greatest writers and artists.  They take their name from the roadway that links their hometown of Lake Jackson, Texas to Galveston, where the cops, the teachers, the baristas and the chemical plant workers travel to work hard and to play hard, blowing off steam, dancing to their favorite bands. Blue Water Highway’s music is the soundtrack for their lives.

“Best Friend” is the first single from their upcoming album Heartbreak City, coming out on Blue Water Highway Records/Thirty Tigers on June 8th. With a hook that’s a mile wide, it chronicles the lives, loves and friendships that sustain us. Said lead singer Zack Kibodeaux, “We wrote this as a band, and we wanted to tap into that feeling of that special friendship where you know you can count on one another. Even though I wrote characters that are not the band members, our relationship definitely informed the writing of the lyrics.”

Blue Water Highway was started by two best friends from high school - Kibodeaux (lead vocals, guitar) and Greg Essington (guitar). They were later joined by Catherine Clark (keyboards), Jared Wilson (drums) and Kyle James Smith (bass). They will be touring relentlessly to support Heartbreak City, so look for them in a town near you soon.

John Henry

Blue Water Highway

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