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Ron and I wrote this song and recorded a demo in 90 minutes. I made a few lyric changes.
Ron and his collaborator, musician Michael Terry, made more extensive changes to the lyrics and music in their recording.
lyrics
You Have to Like Lonesome
Music by Fred Grittner,
Lyrics by Fred Grittner and Ronald Raymond Beliveau
Driving down to Main Street
On a fading Friday night
Heading for the liquor store
With its burnt-out neon light
I've done this a thousand times
I never got it right
Sometimes you have to fold your hand
Give up this pointless fight
Chorus
Hundred miles from nowhere
With no place left to go
You have to like lonesome
When you're just a one-man show
I remember Main Street
When there was a picture show
A hardware store, a barber shop
Good friends would come and go
Now all are dark and quiet
Silent echoes of the past
All I have are memories
I know I can't outlast
Chorus
The church gave up its stain glass
This town gave up its soul
I feel like one sad soldier
Lost out on patrol
Running all the stop signs
You could say that I was free
Rusty empty silos
Are the only sights I see
Saying to myself tonight
I'll just have one more beer
A fool’s a fool that fools himself
Then up and disappears
CHORUS
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credits
from Proving Grounds,
released February 5, 2010
Fred Grittner Vocal and Arrangement
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