A song about boldly searching for your true counterpart.

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Someone New

One Day- Paolo Nutini

Words/Music: Brian Harmer
Vocal/Guitar/Harmonica: Brian Harmer
Production: Brendan Whelan
Keysboards/effects: Brendan Whelan

Warm Beer & Cheap Pickup Lines {It's Christmas Time}

[Muisc & Lyrics: Brian Harmer]

From the bedroom window the boy could see,
All of Johnson's Avenue fast asleep.
The boards on the windows swaying in the breeze,
On the empty old house out passed the hollow tree.

And trying not to make a sound,
He crossed the bedroom floor.
But breaking that silence as he turned the lock,
On the door.
And as his family slept, oh he crept,
To parts of himself he'd never seen before...
...On Johnson's Avenue.

Those summer nights had almost passed,
As he pulled down a shoebox of old photographs.
Pictures of moments from so long ago,
One of him 5 years standing by that stereo.

He used to stand in front of that mirror with his hair slicked back,
And he thought he was a star.
With a harmonica on a hanger,
And a 40 dollar Japanese guitar.
But those things go away whe you find out that sometimes,
The easy things get hard....
... On Johnson's Avenue.


Johnson's Avenue

[Music & Lyrics: Brian Harmer, Additional lyrics: Jennifer McKim]

When I was young I knew everything,
I raced the devil in my 442.
From my daddy's ranch to the borderline,
'Cos in Wyoming, there ain't much to do.
And my 442 was the finest thing thing the devil had ever seen,
So he stole it and left me stranded out on highway 16.

I got a girl living back in Uni,
With a kid and mister he ain't mine.
But I taught him how to shoot on my 12-guage,
And I showed him how to walk that line.
And I showed him how to fight dirty and I told him how to get away clean,
But those things just don't mean much now out on highway 16.

Me and Bonnie drove down to Sweetwater,
On a hot night in our senior year.
I was driving hard into the darkness,
I was trying hard just to disappear.
And I heard a voice call my name as we passed teh ravine,
But I know it wasn't Bonnie, it was highway 16.

I been to Texas and I been to Mexico,
I spent 14 years north of the line.
But when I'm coming home at night from the factory,
I only see one highway sign.
And I know the bad things that I have done and all the things in between,
Will stand up now to face me out on highway 16.

At night I can hear my 442 and I know that it's more than dream,
I know that I'm still stranded out on highway 16.



Highway 16

[Music & Lyrics: Brian Harmer]

Lisa had a baby and she named him Sam,
She said I ain't the daddy but I know I am.
It was on a winter night in our senior year,
In the backseat of my daddy's Chevy Cavalier.

I'm goin' down...
I'm goin' down...
I'm goin' down...
To where it don't matter no more

I was raised in the shadow of the cross,
And inside that shadow's where I got lost.
In between the sinners, the sickness and the saints,
I found out what I am and I found out what I ain't.

{Chorus}

Lisa had a baby and Sam was his name,
We both know I'm the daddy, it's a god-damn shame.
I'm gonna do my best just to see this through,
Sometimes you live your life, sometimes your life lives you.

{Chorus}

I'm Going Down

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One Day- Paolo Nutini

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