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This song was written while substitute teaching one day back in the fall of 2008. A number of the songs on this album were the result of a long relationship ending, and this was the final one, sort of a closure-finding tune with a declaration about the future.

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Well tell me how far gone are we, cuz I keep losing track.
There's better men out there than me, and I can't help those facts.
Some talk to god, some talk to Jesus, well I talk to myself.
Sometimes the best laid plans are broken, by everybody else.

You could say, "hello", but you don't need to.
Thats the kind of thing you can't predict.
I could clean up, but, I don't want to,
domestication never seemed to fit.

I could play guitar for hours, and you could hang alone.
I could go out with my friends, and you could stay at home.
I could get you something special, buy you that new dress.
You could follow me from town to town, and never rest.

You could take one last look, in that shop window,
the view inside will never be again.
I could take this old number to the limit,
these songs have got me like they're cigarettes.

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from Ghost Towns, released August 12, 2010
written by John Statz

John Statz - vocals, electric guitar
Ben Johnson - electric guitar
Matt Donoghue - bass guitar
Adam Cargin - drums

engineered by Jeremiah Nelson & Andrew Hartman
mixed by Andrew Hartman

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One of the more prolific thirty-something songwriters working in the Folk/Americana genre today, John Statz has released nine studio albums and performed all over North America and Europe over the course of his fourteen-year career. The Boston Globe has called John’s music "electric, urgent folk; aching, sweet country-rock" ... more

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