I came in just in time to catch your ending
Another seat in the back row
Were you in love or were you just pretending?
I could've asked you that long ago

Could've learned some different ways
Could've stayed to take you to wife
But now I've left and your friends say
My name ain't in the book of life, the book of life
My name ain't in the book of life

Pick the baby up and stop her crying
She been ailing since you left
You said the moment you get born, you start dying
From the first time you draw breath

This morning in the pocket of my coat, your lipstick
And a broken little string of pearls
Like something that I should have known, but missed it
Like something from another world

Now the winter wants to just outlast me
I feel the hunger of the land
I feel the spirit of your dress brush past me
And the widows of your hands

Book of Life

Book Of Life

Baby girl playing with her friends outside
At my buddy's farm in the early July
Mama calls her in till the thunder's gone
She says take me anywhere but home

Mama can't you see we got time to play?
Let's squeeze the daylights out of this day
There's a lot of world left and I want me some
Oh take me anywhere but home
Take me anywhere but home

Left my family years ago
I was never coming back and I told them so
Left Alabama with my backpack on
I said take me anywhere but home
Take me anywhere but home

Now I'm driving at the clear blue sky
Leaving Tallahassee in the early July
Going to Alabama now wouldn't you know
Maybe this time it'll feel like home

Sometimes I wonder if my old friend prayed
In the twisted wreckage on that ultimate day
Trapped in a coffin of metal and chrome
He said take me anywhere but home
Take me anywhere but home

Read one time that the road will bend
You all the way home at the journey's end
You can bury me here, you can rest my bones
I was going anywhere just to get back home
Going anywhere just to get back home

Jared Piper: Electric guitar
Nathan McClure: Drums and sound advising
Elliott Thomas: Mixing and mastering
David Bedsole: Vocals, acoustic guitar, banjo, piano, bass

Anywhere But Home

These are clips from various groups and recording projects, some finished and some demos. Included are several piano and organ solos, and one accordion solo. 

Keyboard Sample Tracks

Piano 3

David Bedsole is a Northport, AL based singer-songwriter/sideman who has performed solo and with a variety of regional acts. He also teaches writing at University of Alabama.

David Bedsole Music