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Climbing Up: Country Redux
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A simple country/country-rock tune with a familiar theme. A recycled story of trying to climb back up after being kicked down by a woman.
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The music of Lee Shapiro, which consists of a variety of styles and genres. I would appreciate if you "liked" or commented on any of the songs you enjoy.
My favorite kinds of music is the kind that surprises you. While I enjoy conventional type songs (verse, chorus, verse chorus, bridge, chorus), I prefer songs that take you on an adventure. This includes jam songs (Grateful Dead), and songs with many detours and lots of dynamics (Rickie Lee Jones, Dave Matthews). Although most of my songs tend to fall into some kind of normal verse/chorus formula, I do tend to try and mix things up a bit. Which is why most of my songs last longer than 4 or 5 minutes.
Song Info
Genre
Country • Country-Rock
Charts
Peak #113
Peak in subgenre #17
Author
Lee Shapiro
Rights
2016
Uploaded
March 28, 2016
Track Files
MP3
MP3 7.5 MB • 256 kbps • 4:07
Story behind the song
A simple country-rock tune, with a familiar theme. I had already written a song about climbing up after being kicked down by a woman, which was called simply enough "Climbing Up Again". And while the lyrics to this song are new, the story is basically the same. The lyrics took about 20 minutes to write, I obviously didn't spend too much time on this short 4 minute song, and decided to appropriately name it "Climbing Up: Country Redux".
Lyrics
Forty years to write this song Written along the way Countryside zooming along Flying past like so many days. I get to thinking ‘bout you About the words I wanna say But they never quite rang true Never came to stay CHORUS: Why’d you go away Before I could say my piece I tried to see your way Meet you half way at least When you finally hear this song I can’t say it’s for you You might have done me wrong I always thought I knew I got that sinking feeling That something just ain’t right And when you left me reelin’ You were already out of sight CHORUS: Why’d you go away Before I could say my piece I tried to see your way Meet you half way at least Oh you can keep this song. Keep it from getting too long. Short and sweet, Simple and neat. That’s where we went wrong SOLO I get to thinking ‘bout you About the words I wanna say But they never quite rang true Never came to stay CHORUS: Why’d you go away Before I could say my piece I tried to see your way Meet you half way at least Lying alone tonight But it really ain’t so bad Trying not to fight The feelings that I have Finding my way somehow Gonna make it be okay I'm climbing up and out To see the light of day Finding my way somehow Gonna make it be okay I'm climbing up and out To see the light of day Climbing up and out And finding another way Climbing up and out To see the light of day.
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