Name: Northern Lights
Duration: P00H03M20S
Description: This song's about making good decisions and taking the high road.

Northern Lights

from Elsewhere by Somewhat

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This song's about making good decisions and taking the high road.

lyrics

I slide in, sidle up to the bar
It's last call again and I'm a bit too far
To get myself home, I'm all on my own
And the cabs won't stop for me
Well there's this cute little thing with her drinks in a stack
She's had six too many, there's no going back
She's got this look in her eyes that says, she's not too hard to please

She doesn't know my name
She says it's all the same
She keeps staring at me, she keeps staring at me
Doesn't know the way
Am I to blame?
For the way she would love me, the way she would love me

Well we've got a situation, a minor complication
I'd take a step aside to avoid the conversation
The confrontation is out of control and i just can't fight it
Cause in the back of my mind, I feel like she invited it

She doesn't know my name
She says it's all the same
She keeps staring at me, she keeps staring at me
Doesn't know the way
Am I to blame?
For the way she would love me, the way she would love me

So we step outside, we get in the cab and we're on our way
And then she takes me to her place, it's at the corner of 3rd and broadway
And then we arrive, at the scene of the crime

She wakes up again at half past ten
Lets out a sigh, oh god it happened again
she asks how long i've been up, and exactly what happened?
Well not a thing, not a Goddam thing
It turns out I'm not the man you thought I would be
I brought you home and tucked you in, been on the couch since half past three

And now she knows my name
She says it's not the same
She kept staring at me, she kept staring at me
Doesn't know the way
She says that I'm to blame
For the way that she loves me, the way that she loves me

credits

from Elsewhere, released November 17, 2014
Clayton Roney: Words
Kyle Stackpole: Music, 2nd vocals
Emmanuel Hernandez: Bass
Spencer Williams: Percussion
Lee Jennings: Production, Mixing, Mastering

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somewhat Atlanta, Georgia

Formerly known as Awesome Hours. Atlanta indie rock.
Clayton Roney, Kyle Stackpole, Britt Davis, Avery Payne

discography

Hum

Mar 2017
Stranger in my Shoes

Jan 2016
Elsewhere

Nov 2014

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