Music
Otherwise Year: 2006 | Run Time: 4:38
Written by Bill Mallonee for CyBrenJoJosh (BMI)
i guess i was expecting
better from myself
always this nagging feeling
i should be somewhere else
home well now there's the rub
mine could stand a shine
now there's a thousand miles between
some motel room and a back porch swing
of what used to be otherwise
i was living under the colored lights
they're now breaking monochrome
i fractured blessed images
i once made and then owned
and home i made a good one once
there was no disguise
now there's a thousand miles between
a heartbeat and a back porch swing
of what used to be otherwise
so i'll play you a certain card
every time my mind gets loud
but it'll never sweep the hand
when my heart's gone so far south
and i'll roll you a couple of dice
every time i'm dying to live
you can read it in the gambler's eyes
but it's speaking in his fingertips
i have this dream quite frequently
where i am blind and lame
stumbling through forgotten cities
looking for my name
and home well i became one once
under those clearer skies
Did You Know?
Of this song, Bill says: "6/8 is always the most mournful of time signatures... Ben Holst does the dobro, Muriah the background vocals. I recorded this with an old, and I mean OLD early '60's hollow body Harmony Monterey... said "dust bowels" to me... I'd love to hear this one in a movie one day."
Appeared On…
- Stolen Kisses and Other Thefts EP (2006)
- BillTunes July 2006 (2006)
- BillTunes October 2006 (2006)