1. |
What Am I Going To Do
04:11
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What Am I Going To Do
© 2011 Steven A. Humes All Rights Reserved
It might have been the whiskey
It might have been the beer
It might have been something
You whispered in my ear
It might have been time
For things to change
Now my whole life is different
And I feel strange
CHORUS
What am I going to do
Without you, I don't know
I might just drive around
With nowhere to go
I might just sit and stare
At your picture on the wall
What am I going to do
Will I do anything at all
VERSE 2
It might have been the mood tonight
It might have been the vibe
It might have been the way you looked
Me dead in my eyes
When you told me
That you soon you'd be gone
And I just stood there
Like I known it all along
CHORUS
INSTRUMENTAL
BRIDGE
It seems like its been forever
Though its only been a day
I'm trying to keep it all together
Now that you've gone on your way
And lonely is the only word
That describes just how I feel
What am I going to do
Will I do anything at all
CHORUS
TAG
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2. |
Yesterday's Troubles
04:30
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Yesterday's Troubles
© 2011 Steven A. Humes All Rights Reserved
CHORUS
Yesterdays Troubles
Are what I’m living today
Why won't I make them
Go on away
Yesterdays Troubles
Should be left alone
Why can't I see
That yesterdays gone
VERSE
You just ran out of time
And you told me why
I kept talking of used to be's
With a gleam in my eye
You cannot keep company
With someone who cannot see
That living yesterdays troubles
is nowhere to be
CHORUS (2nd half inst)
VERSE
I can see now
What tears us apart
I should have told you
Right from the start
I cannot keep company
I cannot give my heart
My Yesterdays Troubles
Will keep us apart
CHORUS (1st half instr)
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3. |
Cuckoo Bird
03:24
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Cuckoo Bird
© 2011 Steven A. Humes All Rights Reserved
Cuckoo bird
Out in the yard
Perched high up
On a house of cards
Sings a song
That don't make sense
Jazzy tune in
His defense
Sings to the birds
High on the wire
Electric line
Crackle like fire
Smiles as he sings
Cause he's in love
With a mocking bird
And a ring neck dove
CHORUS
One day he may
Have to choose
But right now
Love is on the loose
Right now his
Love is on the loose
VERSE 2
Cuckoo bird
In a big card game
Betting it all
But his name
Blowing wind
On his full house
Hand is a claw
Cards is a mouse
If his house falls
He can fly
Just a gust
We'll know why
Tries to win
What he plays for
But If he loses
Cards on the floor
CHORUS
Cuckoo bird
On to the next
Nothing else
To expect
Play a new hand with
Beak and claw
Try to stay
This side of the law
Hope to win
Not to fail
Win some love
Stay out of jail
Birds are wild
Men are not
Fall in love
With what you got
CHORUS
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4. |
You Know Why
03:47
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You Know Why
© Steven A. Humes All Rights Reserved
INTRO
One way ticket on a southbound train
Taking with me, all of my pain
And all of my fondest
Memories of you
I was late getting in the game
But I was in, just the same
And I lost, lost what I wanted
Wanted from you
CHORUS
I'm off and on my way
You never really thought I would stay
Trying so hard to get your words to match
The look in your eyes
I’ll fly on, fly high
You know why
VERSE
I'll always remember the day
Never forget the cold, cold way
When you bet, bet I wouldn't
Catch you in your lover's lie
I was on to how you feel inside
Some things you just can't hide
And I lost, lost what I wanted
Wanted from you
CHORUS
BRIDGE
Those words. will never sound the same
When you say them to somebody else someday
You can tell it all over again
All together too soon
CHORUS
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5. |
Winner Didn't Lose
03:31
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Winner Didn’t Lose
© 2011 Steven A. Humes All Rights Reserved
My way or the highway
And I find myself alone
No one else beside me
Endless miles to roam
Stubborn pride is in itself
Its own lasting reward
But it’s mine to give myself
A goal to work toward
VERSE 2
Detour to a fun filled day
An often travelled road
Searching, reaching for a peace
That I can call my own
Getting out of my own way
Might be described as Zen
But now I’m heading back
In to my way again
CHORUS
Looking out
To that broad horizon
Looking in
Eyes
I See my whole life through
You never know
Until the day is over
Stories told
Of how the
Winner didn't lose
VERSE 3
Winning is the only thing
With nothing else to lose
Play the hand that I was dealt
Risking what I choose
Some things become familiar
In the game of life and time
Sometimes they turn peculiar
in the world that I call mine
BRIDGE
Chance and luck are players
In every circumstance
So the story goes
Connected to coincidence
CHORUS (Riding on)
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6. |
Liquor Store Van
03:34
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Liquor Store Van
© 2011 Steven A. Humes All Rights Reserved
Old delivery van
From the old liquor store
It’s all rusty and dented
Like it's been to war
Just like all the lives,
Curbs and fenders it touched
That old liquor store van
Seen plenty, too much
CHORUS
And I come to you
Feeling the same
Tired and beat
Without any shame
Empty and weary
And ready for more
Like that old van
From the old liquor store
VERSE 2
Went to a big party
All day and all night
Lit it up good
Done it up right
Laughing and smiling
Till my face hurt
Fell asleep at the table
With stuff on my shirt
CHORUS
One of these days
I might get smart
But I really ain't in
No damn hurry to start
Keep on keeping on
That's my battle plan
Collect battle scars
Like the liquor store van
BRIDGE
Fuzzy and fresh
Spirits on high
Got so far up there
Can't remember just why
CHORUS
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7. |
Somewhere Can't Be Found
04:45
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Somewhere Can't Be Found
© 2011 Steven A. Humes All Rights Reserved
Intro
VERSE
Wearing a dirty old white t-shirt
Got a hole on the belly
Dusty old blue jeans and boots
That are worn out and smelly
From things in the road
That have come to pass
From the glaring people giving you
When you told them all to kiss
your ass
VERSE 2
Smiling wide while lies fly out of
Your beer breath crusty mouth
Telling how you didn't do it
How you headed down south
Those things in your life
That have come to pass
All the people you left behind
When you abandoned your past
CHORUS
Running out of road
Running out of time
Running from things you forgot
Back at the scene of the crime
Running low
Running down
Running out, looking for
Where somewhere... can't be found ....
Intro
VERSE 3
Staring out the window of
A broke down stolen truck
Wishing for a cool breeze and
Cursing this life's bad luck
Luck that got you somewhere
That has come to pass
From the moment you decided
To make that bad dream your last
LIFT
You left them all wondering
Who the hell you really were
Not the one who came in up close
Not the one who answered with yes sir
Not the one who got trusted
And damn near got busted
But the one who took and run
away
CHORUS
INST 8 BARS
BRIDGE / INTERLUDE
The call of the road has to be answered
That’s the only question you would take
Running long and hard out to somewhere
Away from and probably to another big mistake
CHORUS
TAG
Running out to somewhere
Where somewhere can't be found
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8. |
Dead Man's Medicine
04:00
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Dead Man's Medicine
© 2011 Steven A. Humes All Rights Reserved
Fighting ghosts of a lifetime past
Sleep in the corner, crumpled up like trash
Sweating, shaking
Things were taken
High again
Dead Man's Medicine
Nervous laughter from another room
Breaks the silence, when you're all alone
Something's funny
Tired of running
High again
Dead Man's Medicine
Stare at the ceiling
scream at the sky
It was no dream
Just another high
Faded nightmares dance like shadows inside
Empty soul, dusty drug wired mind
Fear of waking
Blessed and forsaken
High Again
Dead Man's Medicine
Peace you've been stealing
Scream till you cry
It was no dream
Just another high
Dead Man's Medicine
Dead Man's Medicine
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9. |
The Glow
03:44
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THE GLOW
© 2011 Steven A. Humes All Rights Reserved
VERSE
There's a pile of empty beer bottles
Next to his chair
Look around behind
And there's some more back there
He sits in front of his TV
Putting them down all night
Just being lonely
Just out of sight
Except for the glow
CHORUS
Glowing TV, cigarettes and neon signs
Are the only loving lights that shine
If you can call it that at all
In his lonely mind
The glow of happiness
Been replaced by sadness and despair
It's a sad and lonely place
But he put himself there
VERSE
There's a pile of cigarette butts
At the bottom of the stairs
She ain't never seen them
Cause she doesn't go down there
She chain smokes on the balcony
When she gets home at night
Just being lonely
Just out of sight
Except for the glow
CHORUS (She)...
INSTRUMENTAL VERSE
BRIDGE
Loving loneliness
Keeps them from knowing love is right
And lonely folks just get lonelier
Staying just out of the light
CHORUS (Themselves)
TAG
It's a sad and lonely place
But they put themselves there
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10. |
Exit 32
03:44
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Exit 32
© 2011 Steven A. Humes All Rights Reserved
Just off the interstate
Exit thirty two
Lost souls congregate
As they do what they do
Gas station hobos
Wash windows and more
Lot lizard women
Do the necessary chores
Beggars are dancing
High on their loot
Impatient drivers
Giving horns a toot
Avoiding their eyes
As they try to collect
Outstretched empty hands
Full lives of neglect
Wiping car windows
With stolen rags
Pushing borrowed carts
The store don’t want back
Brown paper bags
Holding liquid answers
Another day in the life
Of the traffic dancers
Disintegration is
Starting on the fringes
Exit door to nowhere
Swings on rusting hinges
Between drying out
And suicidal binges
Gentle world looking on
And it cringes
Sad eyes so eager
To flag you down
Can’t turn away from them
Cause they’re all around
Dirty clothes and faces
Desperation on display
Realize again that
Love won't come today
Just off the interstate
Exit thirty two
So close and far from home
So real and so true........
Surreal and so true........
So real and so true........
Surreal and so true........
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11. |
Kid Brother
03:46
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Kid Brother
© 2011 Steven A. Humes
If you weren't my kid bother
I wouldn't know you
Your life is such...
A mess
If I didn't know better
Wouldn't try to show
What words cannot
Express
If I didn't care
I wouldn't be here
I could just stand
And stare
But I got a kid brother
So tangled and lost
Leaves my spirit broke
In dispair
CHORUS
But what can you do
When the horse just won't go
What do you try
To say
The water is there
But the horse won't drink
His mind must have gone
Astray
VERSE 2
It’s hard to step in
Intervene for a man
Who wouldn’t fight
His own fight
Punching at shadows
Seeking peaceful repose
That may never see
The light
It’s a bitch feeling bad
For somebody lost
When they're content with
Their lot
Good times we had
Can’t make it change
Won’t let them be
Forgot
CHORUS
Time already told
How this story will go
Pray that the ending
Will change
Words that were said
Dreams that just died
Promises should never
Been made
CHORUS
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12. |
Wishing Well
03:34
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Wishing Well
© 2011 Steven A. Humes All Rights Reserved
All the friends and family
Passed and gone before me
Time lost to stop...
Say hello and farewell
Passing by those shiny keys
To brand new memories
Leave behind what might be
New stories to tell
Roses I never stopped to smell
At the bottom of the Wishing Well
Words were never spoken
Promises were never broken
Wishes that keep me hoping
Ringing like a bell
Fields full of pretty roses
Subtle wonder imposes
A window slowly closes
Time told what it will tell
Roses I never stopped to smell
At the bottom of the wishing well
At the bottom of the Wishing Well
Where dreams get put aside
Thoughts I thought I’d get back to
When I had the time
At the bottom of the wishing well
Pennies that I threw
Thoughts of love and life I’d known
And love I never knew
Roses are in bloom
To help make dreams come true
Treasure every single day
Wishing well with you
Roses I never stopped to smell
At the bottom of the Wishing Well
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Steve Humes Tampa, Florida
Steve Humes' album "Exit 32" explores new heights, depths and spaces in the definition of the Americana genre. The CD features a stellar lineup including Poco frontman Rusty Young, veteran producer / songwriter Jim Mason, the legendary Joe Lala, Rebecca Zapen, Leigh Humes, Tami Wingard of Hannah's Whirl, Joe Dobrowolsi of The Know How, Guitar Sal Belloise, and a prime selection of other artists. ... more
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