This Way Up
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Happy Ending |
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Happy Endinglast night, all alone
next stop, HoneysAtHome dot com
one click and there’s your pic
you said, ‘what’s up’
and then it was on
it’s SO on
looks like I did it again, oh!
been where I shouldn’t have been,
here we go, here we go
looks like I did it again, oh!
been where I shouldn’t have been
here we go now
we came we crashed
we drove too fast
right past the point of return
we lived and died in just one night
you smiled as you slipped out the door
while I was hoping for something more
than a happy ending
zip code good to go
mapquest and I’m on the road, oh no
‘a beep beep, I hit the brights
I see you - damn! -
and you climb inside
my ride
(Chorus)
In the twin bed of my awkward youth
I’m dreaming of a princess who
would stay with me
and play with me
in Camelot I’m Lancelot
and she’d adore my mighty sword
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| 05 |
I Found You |
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I Found YouI was out for fun
into action
looking for some satisfaction
gimme something shiny, something new
running wild all alone
lost with no direction home
another rolling stone
black and blue
I found you
you crashed into my dreams
started stealing all the scenes
and now it seems you've got me too
I found you
much to my surprise
I just opened up my eyes
to find you glad to find me to
I found you
I climbed aboard
the magic bus
faced the dragons chasing us
battling the windmills of my youth
I searched along Park Avenue
and climbed the mountains of Peru
and never got no closer to the truth
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on the ropes
down and out
waiting for the ref to count
but just before the final round was through
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About This Way Up
For the past year I’ve been working on a new album, “This Way Up”. It’s been a blast to record with my favorite players at my favorite studio, playing with great minds and great gear.
Davey Faragher and Pete Thomas on bass and drums, from Elvis Costello’s band, Aaron Sterling and Paul Bushnell on several songs and Abe Laboriel, Jr who plays with me in Paul McCartney’s band and Adam MacDougal on keys along with me on several tracks as well.
I’ve been writing with Oliver Leiber, Tonio K. and others and am in the process of mixing as we speak, with Joe Zook [One Republic, Pink, Weezer] who also tracked my live basic tracks at Eldorado. I’m not trying to drop names here, really! I just want to paint a picture before you settle in for a listen.
The music is all new, ranging from fun to deep… mostly going for an uplifting tone - with a few ballads on top. I wrote and recorded one of these ,“Let’s Fall Apart”, just last week here at my home studio, ‘Bad Manors’ . I played and sang everything on that one and it’s still warm..
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