If You See Me Walking

from Static on Every Station by Tom Andes

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I was jamming with a friend who plays the clarinet, and this seemed like a good song for that instrument. The lyrics and the refrain came quickly. On one of John Prine’s last records, he has a line about a guy all alone eating canned food, and I loved that detail, how much it told you about this person’s life, his joy and loneliness, so I stole it and tried to make it my own.

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If you see me walking
Out one lonely night
And you hear me talking
That don't mean I ain't right

Well, since my baby left me
I don't have no place to go
I just wander near and far
Searching high and low

Oh, I don't need
Nobody else
I'm my own best company
And I'm walking by myself

Sometimes I get high
Sometimes I get low
But most of the time I'm stuck in the middle
No particular place to go

Once I had a wife
And a family, too
But they up and left me flat broke
With this old buckboard canoe

Now I've got a dollar
And a can of kerosene
Got two tins of Hormel chili
And another of franks and beans

Oh, I don't need
Nobody else
I'm my own best company
And I'm walking by myself

There's an old gray cat
That hangs around my door
He looks a little long in the tooth
But he keeps coming back for more

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from Static on Every Station, released January 24, 2022
Tom Andes: lead vocals, acoustic and electric guitar
George "Beau" Bishop: backing vocals, drums
Stoo Odom: bass
Marc Linam: clarinet

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Originally from New Hampshire, Tom has lived all over the country, on both coasts and (twice) in New Orleans. Currently, he lives in Albuquerque, NM.

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