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Long Walk Home

from Testing Your Patience by Louka

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An acoustic folk/backbeat crossover slow burner. Lyrically about feeling left behind in an increasingly materialistic and superficial society.

Features a driving solo section of guitar harmonics.

lyrics

The red ferns grow on the side of you house
I’m sitting here quiet, squeakin’ like a mouse
Don’t you leave me in this hole alone
It’s gonna be a long walk home

The paint is chipping and the carpets a fade
By the time you get back I wont be the same
And this old house will cave, collapse and degrade
And I wont remember your name

Chorus:
Well I can’t stand when people say
“It is what it is, it’s always been that way”
It’s easy to think like yesterday
when you still feel the same
I can’t stand when people say
“It is what it is and you can’t change it”
Well if you leave me in this hole alone...

I’m pointing my cannons at the side of their ship
‘Cause even when the wind blows they’re gonna crack the whip
But the the hull wont hold
and the sails are ripped
They’ll keep on rowing till the frame is tipped

They're polishing each ounce of Earth
‘till it sparkles and shines, their appetites for lies
keep on growing
and they can’t get full

The porch is crooked and my bed’s unmade
if the legs give out I’ll slip into my grave and the
Sunshine is gonna carry me home

Chorus:
I can’t stand when people say
“It is what it is, it’s always been that way”
It’s easy to think that same old way
when you don’t feel the pain
I can’t stand when people say
“It is what it is and you can’t change it”
Well if you leave me in this hole alone,
It’s gonna be along walk home

One day the Earth will line up
with Pluto and Mars, if it
don’t happen fast I’m gonna sell the farm
and the life there is gonna wither and die

Interlude::
I can’t stand when people say
“It is what it is, it’s always been that way”
There’s a there’s a graveyard in your mind
a graveyard in your mind
a graveyard in your mind
where you buried the love that you found inside

Chorus:
I can’t stand when people say
“It is what it is and there aint no way”

It’s easy to think that same old way
you don’t feel the pain
I can’t stand when people say
“It is what it is and you can’t change it”

Well if you leave me in this hole alone,
If you leave me in this hole alone
If you leave me in this hole alone
It’s gonna be along walk home

Everything is Made of Love ASCAP

credits

from Testing Your Patience, released November 12, 2021
Louka Patenaude: acoustic guitars, drums and production

John Christensen: electric bass

Paul Hastil: fender rhodes

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Louka Madison, Wisconsin

Louka is a singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and teacher (University of Wisconsin – Madison). Testing Your Patience (his debut album as Louka) is his first release since The Very Best of the Fingers (2012 Layered Music) and The Optimistic (2008 Layered Music).
For more information about Louka please visit www.music.wisc.edu/faculty/louka-patenaude/ or loukasound.com ... more

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