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Everybody Cries

from Into The Blue by Neil Porter

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This has been sitting on my hard drive for ages without words, and with less than perfect playing. The words are in, after some soul-searching during very hot and dangerous weather at the start of 2014, and the playing has been tidied. The vocal ..... let's just say it is a typical example of my voice ;)
I'm playing bass and guitars (Seagull acoustic 6 string, Maton acoustic 12 string and Telecaster) as well as singing. The pedal steel track is some very finely adjusted loops, and so are the drums. I decided to use the great Drums on Demand loops in this case because it's so hard (yes really) to get a good country feel by playing it in on the piano.

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Everybody Cries
©2013 Neil Porter

It’s 44 in the shade today
Heat that takes your breath away
I’m hoping this north wind will stop
There’s burning trees on the mountain top
Gumtree smoke on the late night air
We’re not going anywhere
Bad news coming every way

We’re counting on a fire break
I’m thinking of my last mistake
I’m thinking of our family
Thinking most about you and me
Gumtree smoke on the late night air
We’re not going anywhere
Bad news coming every way

Everybody lives
Everybody dies
Anybody here can see
The heartbreak in my eyes
Everybody loves
Everybody cries
Is anybody listening?

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Everybody lives
Everybody dies
Anybody here can see
The heartbreak in my eyes
Everybody loves
Everybody cries
Is anybody listening?

A bit too late for “best laid plans”
That fire truck’s in the street again
Keeping cool, I’ve got the blues
Things look bad on the midnight news
Gumtree smoke on the late night air
We’re not going anywhere
Bad news coming every way

Friends cut off on the north of town
Hope they left before the sun went down
Fire’s up and the wind is too
I close my eyes and think of you
Gumtree smoke on the late night air
We’re not going anywhere
Bad news coming every way

Everybody lives
Everybody dies
Anybody here can see
The heartbreak in my eyes
Everybody loves
Everybody cries
Is anybody listening?
Is anybody listening?


For Ed and Lisa and Joe: "The 'roos have all disappeared into the shade of the bush". It didn't quite make the cut - a scanning issue :)

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from Into The Blue, released January 1, 2015
Neil Porter - all instruments/vocals

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Singer songwriter from Pambula Beach in Australia.

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