"Something Different" is the first single off of The Rehydraters debut EP, Des Plaines River.  EP releases 3/17/17.

"Something Different"
Written by Tom Compton

At least I might feel something different
If I said hello to you.
And I might adjust all my angles
In your orbit's closer view
Then I might gain a new perspective
Bounce my aura off of you.
Then I might gain a new perspective
That's been skewing mostly blue.

I can tell you my first name.
Oh, then you can do the same
Then as things start to take flight.
Everything might turn out right.

Then my world might start expanding
Open borders up to you.
I can stamp your empty passport
Something like a heart tattoo.
You can plant your flag beside me.
Staking claim, that's what you do.
We can celebrate our independence
With a firework or two.

I can tell you my first name...

This day, it can turn around.
This day, can lift right off the ground
This day, there is no game to win
But I declare myself all in.

I can tell you first name...

Des Plaines River

Something Different

"Obstinate Love" is off Des Plaines River, the debut EP from The Rehydraters.

"Obstinate Love"
Written by Tom Compton

We pulled into Clarksdale
Looking for a taste of the blues.
And when we bellied up in Nashville
It all turned black, too.
Cause one spring in Colorado
Doesn’t last for a lifetime
When the seed doesn’t take
And the fruit dies on the vine

We ran and ran,  hand in hand
Pulling that obstinate love behind us
That wasn’t even there.
That didn’t even care.
It was the obstinate love behind us
That turned and disappeared.

All the drives home were long
Four walls bore in like a bear trap
And when the trigger snapped
Pain only served to distract
Yet the fall outside Chicago
That didn’t make a sound
When the leaves turned crumbling brown
Suffocated the cold ground

So we ran and ran, hand in hand...

Your memory can think about some good times
Thinkin’ how the sun shined.
My memory doesn’t recall the details                                          
Lost wandering the foot trails.
I just knew we both wanted to smile
But we couldn’t

So we ran and ran, hand in hand...

Obstinate Love

"Cold Coffee and Warm Regards" is off Des Plaines River, the debut EP from The Rehydraters.

"Cold Coffee and Warm Regards"
Written by Tom Compton

Been up about half the night.
Been thinking about wrong and I've been thinking about right.
Thinking about these chains hanging over me.
How I should cut 'em loose and just be free.

Na na na, na na na na na na, na na na na.

Brewed a pot about 4am.
Eyed the tomb and pushed the stone from the rim.
A new day greeted me with a smile
A ray of hope I hadn't seen in awhile.

Na na na, na na na na na na, na na na na.

I'm saying goodbye.
I'm saying don't bother to cry.
I'd have thought leaving would be much more hard.
I'm going straight away. I'm going at the break of day.
And as I leave you've got my cold coffee and warm regards.

Cold Coffee and Warm Regards

"Des Plaines River" is the title track off the debut EP from The Rehydraters.

"Des Plaines River"
Written by Tom Compton

As I walked along the banks,
Skipping rocks I swear they never sank.
All my troubles, they just fell right in
Swept away as the current did spin
As I saw the deadwood drift.
I felt my burdens lift.

I went down to the Des Plaines River.
My eyes were big but my dreams were bigger
Wouldn’t fade away.
They’re floating to this day
I saw myself in the Des Plaines River
It burnt my heart but I learned to forgive her.
And so the river flows
On and on it goes

As the water carves up the shore
I relive the things that I knew before
Salutations to the setting sun
The river’s journey is never done
But in time us lost souls collide
Still looking for the other side

Where I went down to the Des Plaines River...

Branches bow down to take a sip.
Trying to merge with its eternal trip.

I went down to the Des Plaines River...

"This and That" is off Des Plaines River, the debut EP from The Rehydraters.

This and That
Written by Tom Compton

Going in circles on a midnight train.
Headed south to Baton Rouge.
Gonna spend a week at the in-laws house,
Rest of the month with the blues

Doing this and that
Going here and there.
Saying 'yes please honey'.
Oh and 'thank you dear'.
Taking a long walk off a real short pier.
Don't look for me I've disappeared.

Lord have mercy, we'll see the dishes fly
Talking immigration in the news
Wait out the storm. Wait out a warm goodbye.
Holding my breath counting in twos

Doing this and that...

Blood is thicker than water
But slinging mud mucks up my shoes.
Lines in the sand ain't going anywhere
In an argument that's born to lose.

Doing this and that...

This and That

"The Night Is Young" is off Des Plaines River, the debut EP from The Rehydraters.

The Night Is Young
Written by Tom Compton

So much to do, so much to say
So much to set up to let slip away.
Yet to throw a punch, yet to place my bets
Yet to do a thing that I might regret.
Let's raise the roof. Let's get it on.
Turn the key and we're gone.

The night is young and so am I
There's an ending, comes when I die.
It's a song yet to be song.
Oh baby, the night is young.

Let's start the engine. Let's peel 'er out.
Let's fall off our stools when the game's a rout.
Gonna give it all, gonna shake a leg.
Oh baby don't make me beg.

The night is young and so are you.
There's an ending, comes when we're through.
Don't know the words? Then just hum.
Oh baby, the night is young.

All possibilities stand before us.
There's a future to set free.
Others may try to ignore us
But what's to be surely will be.

The night is young and so am I...

The Night Is Young

Don't become troubled.  We ain't alone.  -- Tom

Not Become Troubled
By Tom Compton

Let your heart not become troubled
Don’t let fear take hold of you.
Focus your vision
On love bold and ever new
For the things that are beyond us
Aren’t going anywhere
And the river of mercy
Washes clean all sorts of cares

Don’t fear the wolves around you
Don’t lay beneath their claws
No one is alone here
There’s no need to earn applause
The universe is held together
No holes we must stand and plug
The hairs on our heads are counted
So put a smile onto your mug

The mission that we have
To do one billionth of its part
Is the mission in our homes
Is the mission in our hearts

When you up and turn this corner
You might check it on gps
But another sense of direction
Is one that might serve you best
Don’t obsess about perdition
It’s an insult to the trust
That can rise above conditions
That oxidize with rust

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