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Home Ain't Out There

I recorded this song back in 2016 - one take for guitar/vocals and one take for the e-bow. I stumbled across the audio file on my old laptop and figured it was deserving of a Soundcloud upload, a casual 9 years later. Written for the girl who would become my wife and, soon thereafter, the mother of my kids. Hope you enjoy!

Lyrics:

Born and raised
To stay behaved
To toe the straight and narrow
I played the fool
As young men do
Tapped the whiskey barrel
The time it took
Like a winding brook
On its way to sea
I saw some things
And grew some wings
Confused my wants with needs

Oh now that I’ve grayed
I see all the options that I could have weighed
But one girl who remains
Calling those bluffs that still stand on the banks of
My channel

I was counting on
Lightning rods
And safety from my window
But she stormed on in
A warm crosswind
And stole my favorite pillow
All my control
Was never whole
A finger in a levee
Entropy
Got the best of me
I suppose I was always ready

Oh now that I’ve grayed
I see all the options that I could have weighed
But one girl who remains
Calling those bluffs that still stand on the banks of
My channel

My wounds cut to the bone
Eroding walls of stone
May not have known it then
Took love to fill me in

So why don’t I try
She’s more than deserving
Letting words fly
Is a little unnerving
The dice that I rolled
Are finally returning
She’s making me whole
She's making me whole
She's making me whole
She's making me whole

The time it took
Like a winding brook
On its way to sea
I found the path
She pulled me back
To where I need to be

Oh now that I’ve grayed
I see all the options that I could have weighed
But one girl who remains
Calling those bluffs that still stand on the banks of
My channel

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