Long Road Ahead by Westy Reflector

“long road ahead” is track two from my 2009 record “goodbye monday blue.” i wrote it in 2008 in the middle of everything. now i dedic8 it to #occupyeverything.

can't thank you enough for picking up lunch.
who's better than you?!

Some people can turn their conscience on
and off like Ray Davies' Yo-Yo. Not me. You?

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we got a long road ahead
settle down. settle back. settle in.
don’t you know we’re gonna have to work until we’re dead?
we’ve got such a long road ahead

full of naked feelings
illumination
you know all those things you just can’t teach

There you go again
laughing at real life
I guess that’s the way things will always be

it’s been a long slow descent
energy lost. energy found. energy spent.
you know it takes years to make an overnight collapse
it’s been a long slow descent

we got a long road ahead
don’t look down. don’t look back. don’t fit in.
let’s have the last good time with what little we got left
we got a long road ahead

screw cynicism
and useless language
you know, all those things we say instead of what we mean

there you go again
laughing at real life
I guess that’s the way things will always be

09.10.2008 8:17p; 09.15.2008 7:38p

have you ever been really really far away
from your lover for a really really long time?
version: 08012008a

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I know you’re lonely
I’m waiting here for you
Baby, nothing changes
When you feel like I do

So now you’re far away
You got a job to do
So, baby don’t get desperate
Don’t be blue

I see that exit sign
The one you take tonight
The one you take to know you’re home

So many freeway signs
An exit for every life
Remember there’s one can take you home

Other people
They don’t have a clue
They drive on by
Like they do

I see that exit sign
The one you take tonight
The one you take to know you’re home

So many freeway signs
An exit for every life
Remember there’s one can take you home

Where’s the love in a freeway sign
That’s got nothing to do with your life?
It just says you are miles from home

07.20.2008 12:07a

title track. written and recorded in a 72 hour flurry.
have you ever had to re-write a memory?

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No one told me about what happened
To you for a couple of years
Had to rewrite all the good times
Had to rewire ½ the gears

Goodbye Monday Blue
Goodbye I did love you
You had nothing left to lose
Save goodbye monday blue

It takes all your will
To draw with your eyes closed
And it takes all the energy
To recreate this world

Goodbye Monday Blue
Goodbye I did love you
You had nothing left to lose
Save goodbye monday blue

07.02.2008 1:15a

©2008 Sock Drawer Studios

this song was written in 2000, back when
you could live in the future.
call it a love song to a pub song.
version: 05192008a

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find me an after-hours London club
one where the taps don’t close up
from 11 o’clock until the sun comes up
‘cause I got 2 friends, baby, who just won’t shut up

cognac & polyester are best friends to me
and neither of ‘em thinks the lesser to be
the fabric & the drink of high society
sounds like best friends to me

it’s all the fault of this woman faulting out of her dress
close enough to spill, but not to confess
my brood & I, we just gotta laugh at all this decadence
times are not good, until you live them to excess

everybody’s drenched
seconds get stretched
the least likely combination
is never that far fetched

cognac & polyester are best friends to me
and neither of ‘em thinks the lesser to be
the fabric & the drink of high society
sounds like best friends to me

two me

mmm. mmm. mmm.

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I don’t ever want to get like that
How’d you ever come to get like that?
I swore I’d never want to get like that again

Kicked out of the house and shown the door
Forgotten twice by the side of the road
2 nights coatless
in the bitterbitter cold

I don’t ever want to get like that
How’d you ever come to get like that?
I swore I’d never want to get like that again… but here I am

Carried from the club
Never made it to the door
Now you’re leaving your body leaving your body leaving your body behind

Anytime there’s win or lose
Anytime someone gets to choose
There’s always the back of a hand
It’s just…sometimes this world…

I don’t ever want to get like that
How’d you ever come to get like that?
I swore I’d never want to get like that again… but here I am