100 Years Ago Somehow

from Beyond the Great Beyond by Tom Savage

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Me, me, me and my bad decisions
Battle lines drawn fending off these visions
Holding onto the fearx2

Roll, roll, roll
I rock and I roll
But I never ever thought you would ever let me go
Come back to me dearx2

Remember I'd park outside your house and I'd rev my engine
You'd come out runnin' with that fever you were catchin'
It don't seem real to me now
100 years ago somehow

Now I work
To live like a slave
No sense of purpose
Cradle to the grave
There's gotta be something more
Please tell me there's something more
Because my heart beats beats
It beats like a drum
In a cloud of smoke killing a fifth of rum
Waiting for you to walk through that door
Why won't you walk through that door

I remember we'd drive out to the quarry
And we'd talk all night
Story after story
The feeling was so right
If I only knew how
To go back there right now

There are poets
There are places
There are points in time
We use body language, we pantomime
But the message gets through
And it's always times two

I'm a heart I'm a soul
I'm a liver I'm a lung
But even I don't know what I will become
I'll become something new
Hell, if that ain't true

I remember the ocean
I remember that place
Salt on your wounds
Sand in my face
And you running away
That was 100 years ago today

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from Beyond the Great Beyond, released September 8, 2020
words and music by Tom Savage

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Tom Savage is what one might refer to as a triple-threat. One part truth-telling troubadour, one part death-defying guitar slinger, and one part Country Blues howler. Each facet of his formidable on-stage persona carefully crafted over a 20+ year devotion to the composition and performance of song. Tom is a true believer. A disciple of melody and harmony and tempo and timbre. ... more

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