Harmonica played by me lyrics written by me, the groove and style a colaboration of 65 years of listening and playing the blues.

the boogie will call

🔻 Song Insight – “Wasted Away”

There’s a fine line between holding a conversation and circling the drain — Wasted Away lives right on that edge. It’s the sound of someone realizing they’ve said the same thing one too many times to the wrong person, halfway laughing at the absurdity of it all. Beneath the playful country-rock rhythm and raspy vocal grit lies a tongue-in-cheek reflection on how love, communication, and stubborn hope can burn up the same hours that could’ve been peace. It’s not sad — it’s that dry humor of exhaustion, where you’re too tired to cry but not too numb to sing about it.

🔻 Lyrics

[Intro]
[Acoustic strumming]
foot tap

[Verse 1]
I keep on talking,
everything I say’s a waste of time
The longer I speak, the more I’m sayin’
Holding out for a different response,
I keep saying the same damn thing

[Bridge]
I’m just wasted —
wasted away

[Chorus]
Looking out for a missing yesterday
Just another wasted day
Talking to you on a wasted afternoon
I’m startin’ to think we’re just too wasted away
To know what I’ve been tryin’ to say

[Verse 2]
No delays in my day, it’s been planned
It’s flippin’ and tippin’ time on this wasted day
I’m fired by the end of this wasted dance

[Bridge]
Words on repeat, playin’ round and round
Wasted away we go, like broken records, baby

[Chorus]
Wasted, wasted away
Looking out for that wasted, wasted yesterday
“Yeah”
Just another wasted day
Talking to you on a way-way-way wasted afternoon
I’m beginning to think our conversation’s about me
Gettin’ wasted away — wasted on you

[Bridge]
Nothing changing, words exchanging
It’s deep-sea fishing — now you better watch out
For a line this long and the motion of my ocean
If you know what I’m sayin’, watch out
You get pulled in, them words will take you out
Too deep — your words lost on me, it’s overboard
Only one found with logic, the other got thrown out

[Chorus]
So here’s to us wasting, wasted days
And wasting, wasted ways with words
I’d have it no other way
Than to spend my wasted days wasting away with you
Wasted, wasting away
Looking out for a missing yesterday
Just another wasted day
Talking to you on a way, way, way, way
Wasted afternoon

[Outro]
[vocal ad-libs]
[oohs and laughter fade out]

🔻 Personal Reflection

This song came from that familiar space between frustration and humor — the moment you realize a relationship turned into a loop. I remember laughing mid-conversation, not because it was funny, but because I could literally predict every word. Wasted Away became my way of breaking that loop through sound — using rhythm and sarcasm to capture what it feels like to be done, but still dancing in the wreckage. It’s self-aware, raw, and honest in a way that only hindsight allows.

🔻 4Me2BeFree

For 4Me2BeFree, Wasted Away embodies what our project stands for — transforming real emotion into cinematic storytelling. Every track is built from lived experience, layered with grit, humor, and vulnerability. We believe in turning conversation into confession, repetition into rhythm, and exhaustion into art. This song doesn’t wallow; it winks — proof that even in burnout, there’s still melody and meaning waiting to be found.

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