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You Can Come Back Home​-​-​EP

by Quinn Erwin

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1.
Grab my sleeves Pull in deep Take my keys If you want to Fake a kiss Make a fist Knock me out on the ground If you want to Go on break out Go on leave this town If you want to Steal my cash Use my gas But I know you’ll figure it out, Honey When everybody’s left you high and dry No bottle will collect the tears you cry When you’re misunderstood and you don’t know why When you ain’t got a place to call your own When you’re thumbing the wind For the unknown Baby you can always come back home Boldface lie Waste your time Lose your mind If you want to Blame that girl Blame the world Blame anything else If you want to But when it’s all said and done No place is gonna change who you are right now So when you come to face the facts I’ll be waiting on the other side of the tracks Chorus Instrumental Chorus/Tag: When there’s nowhere to run to but into yourself When you’re tired of lying like everyone else When the train tracks end and your wheels won’t spin ::THE STORY BEHIND "You Can Come Back Home":: "I was listening to a lot of Pete Yorn when I wrote this song (one of my heroes) and thinking about the act of running away. To clarify, I was teaching ninth grade high school English, so I was mostly thinking about what my students were going through and how some of them might want to run away at times. This song is basically digging for the reasons and the messiness of that idea, and this is what I came up with."--Q
2.
Run away Fake your feelings Say what you say You talk, You talk yourself into circles Circumnavigate your heart Running after what you’re not Say what you say But you just don’t mean it Mean it Come on, Come on Don’t you think it’s time we were honest Come on, Come on Life is too short to hide what is deep inside us Say what you say Skate around the issue Play the games that you’re so into But you’re lost inside your head Fast asleep in your sorrows Covered in blankets that you borrowed Faces and names that you just don’t need You gonna say what you say You better say what you mean Oh don’t you run away No, don’t hide your face Know I will always stay Will stay Come on, Come on, Come on, Come on ::THE STORY BEHIND "Come On, Come On":: "I wrote this in Murfreesboro, TN the year after I’d graduated college. I’d just moved in with some good friends there from Biloxi, MS and missed Hurricane Katrina hitting the Gulf Coast by two days. It’s still crazy to think about. In between working at Wal-Mart and going back and forth from Murfreesboro to Biloxi to help out my family, I spent a lot of time trying to figure out what I was doing with my life and going a little crazy too. Because I was away from my family and what I considered “home” at the time, I was forced to face some very heavy questions and realizations about myself. “Come On, Come On” is a reflection of that process of getting more honest with myself. I think if God or my family or my friends could have said anything of value to me at that time, this would have been it."--Q
3.
Say that again Say it like you mean it We can’t pretend That it’s all right ‘Cause we’re all fools Holding onto nothing Except these lies These lives we have created But don’t Don’t pass me by Don’t leave me a liar I told you from the outset Don’t jump in If you don’t even mean it Cause these lines Are blurred with every word But I try To hold on to what we’ve got Chorus ‘Cause I just need to know the truth Is it me or is it you I’ve got to see things through To the end, to the end ‘Cause time and time I’ve tried To make things all right But I can’t fix what I can’t see There’s so much in you and me Chorus ::THE STORY BEHIND "Don't Pass Me By":: "A couple that I was close to were in the middle of getting divorced some years ago. I was talking to one half of that couple about that experience, and he was explaining to me the ways in which he was still trying to fight to keep them together. That really struck me hard. I also needed to grieve over their parting, and this song was part of my process."--Q
4.
I'll be here, Love When you call I'll be here, Love When you call Searching for me Searching for me I am sure I am sure I'll be here, Love When you come I'll be here, Love When you come Looking for me Looking for me I swear I swear ::THE STORY BEHIND "I'll Be Here, Love":: "This is a very simple song with a very simple message."--Q
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The strain, the stain On my face I can’t take this, navigate this The boundaries are drawn, but it all feels wrong And I won’t stop, dear, until I reach you If land was a piece of paper I’d match the dots and lines I’d fold the map in half Till we’re standing side by side Baby, give me time And I swear I’ll make things right ‘Cause love ain’t a distance you can measure tonight Night or day no geography could hold me back Not the freeways or aerospace in you heart and mind ‘Cause I’ll do what it takes to understand Just give me a chance Chorus All the miles All the heartache No, it won’t stop me Oh, I coming, love Chorus ::THE STORY BEHIND "Love Ain't a Distance":: "Before I got married to my wife, we spent a lot of time loving each other long distance. It was such a hard road, but we made it. There were times I wish I had the power to fold the map or the land that kept us apart, so we could be together. Luckily, we don't have to worry about that too much anymore."--Q

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Produced by Jeremy McCoy and Quinn Erwin.

All songs written by J. Quinn Erwin
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released May 25, 2010

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