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COMING AND GOING
(Ralph Covert-Emery
Pike-Sean Pike)
Ooh girl they got you coming and going, barely enough
to get by.
Seventeen
roles from here to Sunday, never enough of your life for yourself.
You’re living day to day, the days all slip away,
Working for a dream, a dream you thought was real,
But all you really feel, is living day to day.
The girl you used to be, believed in better things,
But things take their own course, of course we never
see,
The seasons passing by, until the years are gone.
But the girl is still inside, she looks out from your
eyes,
At the world that should have been, if better things
had come,
And wisdom made you wise, and life had fit your plan.
Emery – Lead and Backing Vocals, Lead & Rhythm
Guitars, Tambourine
Ralph Covert – Rhythm Guitar
Bob Vandervliet – Backing Vocals, Keyboards
Chuck Folds – Bass
Frank Pyrtle – Drums
© 2002 Waterdog Music (ASCAP) / Daddy Thunder Musik (ASCAP)
Emery’s Notes:
A good friend and stalwart
of the Chicago pop music scene, Ralph Covert, was touring last fall and
stopped by the house for a three day layover. My brother was up also, so
out came the guitars and this is the result.
It really could be
sub-titled “Ode to the Working Mother”. It’s amazing what women have to put up with in the
workforce, and then deal with kids too when they get home. I know that many
of them get discouraged, and it’s easy to burn out. So this song was just a way to
express this feeling of being trapped in a career and place in life,
wondering how you arrived there to begin with.
The guitar solo at the end was a 1958 Fender
Strat re-issue through a 1968 Fender Bandmaster head and cabinet. Straight
through, with some reverb added later. Hats off to you, Mark Knopfler!
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