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A Reason To Go

from Odds And Ends by Zephaniah Stringfield

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Everybody’s talking to their honey sweet
Everybody’s lovin’ but me
Me, I’m sittin’ lonely in the corner of an old piano bar
The closest thing I got to a baby
She’s up north a hundred miles
Oh, but a hundred miles ain’t nothin’, you got a reason to go

I’m just a tired old barroom jack and she’s my midnight run
We’ve been singin’ love songs for too long
And how long she has been away, I don’t know
I could grab my bag, pack my only hat
Take off in the mornin’ with the sun
Because I do believe that I have got myself a reason to go

Mattingly and Eli can put the trouble out of mind
If only for a moment with their song
But the company of men is beginning to wear thin
I feel that it’s a drag and I can’t see what’s the use
In tellin’ yourself that you ain’t got the time
Sometimes you just find yourself itchin’ with a reason to go

Out upon those worried streets away from which you hide
There’s a vendor on every corner of your mind
Sellin’ front-row tickets to the real-time midnight alley circus show
And you can see the blue-eyed sirens and all the masks of modern times,
The doctors and the highwaymen
And though nothin’ is for free, all you will be asked is for a reason to go

But don’t let me mislead you, best you take your time
Reasons turn to curses chosen blind
And these things come and go away just about as easy as they please
You might find one tomorrow starts to haunt your yesterday
Today is like the men inside these bars
Whose elusive chances always find themselves a reason to go

And so me I’m headin’ up to meet my honey sweet
To see if we can’t settle up a deal
Trade away our tickets for a
So start liftin’ up those lips, because I’m bound to make you smile
I’ve been makin’ you frown for too long my babe
And every slip of downturned lip that your smile has ever hid whenever you were feelin’ low
Can always be forgotten when you’ve found it a reason to go

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from Odds And Ends, released June 22, 2015

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Zephaniah Stringfield Taos, New Mexico

If you ever get the urge to get in your car and take off without a plan, Zephaniah’s voice is your ideal traveling companion. If your date didn’t show at the bar, and you need the music to become your human connection for the night, he’s got you covered. His songs are the type you can never quite believe you are hearing for the first time, and he made them for you. ... more

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