Mike Ryan - Bad Reputation (2014)

The Boy Who Cried Drunk (The Demo)

Family Gatherings

A lone traveler pulls off a desert highway at dusk and discovers a glowing well that promises more than it gives. Round and Round the Wishing Well is a modern country-Americana story about the traps we fall into when we’re thirsty for meaning, connection, or escape.

What looks like salvation becomes a mirage ... a cycle that keeps pulling you back even when you know better.  Pedal steel, dusty-road acoustics, and a haunted blue glow set the scene for a song about illusion, addiction, and the moment you finally walk away.  If you’ve ever felt stuck in a loop you didn’t see coming, this one’s for you.

I was rollin' down the highway, had my whole life planned
Guitar in the backseat, road map in my hand
Then I seen that blue light shinin' by the road
Pulled on over to take a look, man I shoulda known

Now I'm stuck by this wish'n well
Thought it was heaven, this is hell
Keep on drinkin' from it but dry as bone
Highway's callin' me back home

Round and round the wishing well
It's a bad deal as far as I can tell
Round and round this living hell
Can't break free, can't break the spell

Round and round the wishing well
I traded my freedom for this living hell
Gotta get away as far as I can tell
Round and round the wishing well

It showed me faces smilin' from the bottom down
Said they'd found the secret in this thirsty podunk town
Every voice was whisperin' "why doncha stay a while"
Should've seen the prison bars underneath those smiles

Round and round the wishing well
It's a bad deal as far as I can tell
Round and round this living hell
Can't break free, can't break the spell

Round and round the wishing well
I traded my freedom for this living hell
Gotta get away as far as I can tell
Round and round the wishing well

One day I realized, this ain't water at all
Just a devils mirror showin' me my fall
I hear the engine runnin'  and waiting down the road
Time to bust out of this spell and lighten up my load

Found my keys buried in the sandy ground
Left that blue light glowing and left that podunk town
Highway's out there waitin' aint nothin more to fear
Cleared my eyes and mind, now time to kick it into gear. 

No more drinking from that well
Broke my chains, escaped that spell
Got my thirst back, got my soul
Highway's taking me back home

Round and round the wishing well
It's a bad deal as far as I can tell
Round and round this living hell
Can't break free, can't break the spell

Round and round the wishing well
I broke these chains, escaped this living hell
Found my freedom, now I'm doing well
Round and round the wishing well

Wishing Well

Bad Reputation

Red Eye Flight

Dancing All Around It

Putting off Telling Me Goodbye

Easy

Wasting No More Whiskey

Play this in your pickem' up truck.

Song title - Artist ; Album

1. It Ain't My Fault - Brothers Osborne ; Pawn Shop
2. 5-1-5-0 - Dierks Bentley ; Home
3. Honky Tonk Badonkadonk - Trace Adkins ; Songs About Me
4. I Want Crazy - Hunter Hayes ; Hunter Hayes (Encore)
5. November Rain - Steve 'N' Seagulls ; Brothers In Farms
6. You Shook Me All Night Long - Steve 'N' Seagulls - Farm Machine
7. Shotgun Rider - Tim McGraw ; Let It Go
8. If I Told You - Darius Rucker ; Southern Style 
9. As She's Walking Away - Zac Brown Band ; You Get What You Give
10. The Devil Went Down To Georgia - The Charlie Daniels Band ; A Decade of Hits
11. Tattoos On This Town - Jason Aldean ; My Kinda Party
12. Small Town Boy - Dustin Lynch ; Small Town Boy - Single
13. If Your Gonna Be Dumb - Roger Alan Wade ; All Likkered Up
14. Make Me Wanna - Thomas Rhett ; It Goes Like This
15. People Are Crazy - Billy Currington ; Little Bit of Everything
16. Hurricane - Luke Combs ; This One's for You
17. Baby Be My Love Song - Easton Corbin ; About to Get Real

Red Eye Flight

William Alexander Heck

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