Your Town
“.…Up on the street, lights shining bright
Watch the world go by down on the walkway
The shadows try to kiss the night goodbye
Well I need you now, I want you now
And If I die, will I be born again?…”
(c) Steven Lindsay, “Big Town” from the album “Satellites“, 1991
Written in 2013, not long after circumstances had moved me on from the town that I should, on deeper reflection, never have moved to in the first place… I hadnt bargained on ending up in the countryside, but… it proved to be a fruitful place to write, so every cloud has a lining of a different hue.
It was inspired by the need to move on and embrace change and an old Big Dish track from the late 1980s. Another one of the tracks that has sat in the ring binder for over a decade and may get Suno-washed and then over-dubbed in Cubase. If it does, then it will end up on Echoes Of Unmade Miles, sometime in 2027.
Your Town
Verse 1/
A morning mist dissolving,
Buried treasure that will never be found
You wont know where you are if you don’t look around
Just minding your business, keeping your head down
Verse 2/
Don’t play my guitars any more
The lost chord remains unfound
This is the lie that I’ll live in
Til the day I leave your town
Chorus/
Leaving your town, your town
(Wouldn’t have to leave if you’re still around)
Leaving your town, your town
(Gonna find somewhere else to settle down)
Middle 8/
Now neither of us know how this will unwind
All that we know is that life don’t run on straight lines…
Chorus/
Solo/
Chorus/
CODA/
Such a bitter pill left behind
Grass wont grow on dead ground
Don’t care where, just anywhere but here
No home in your town now you’re not around…
(c) Steve McCarthy-Hunt 2013
