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This is a song that I'm really proud of. It stays on my set list year after year. I wrote it in February of 2008. I was really down at the time, because my sister was in poor health and this was my song of hope - looking forward to better days ahead. Greyhounds and bus travel have featured prominently into my life. I moved to New Orleans on one, when I was eighteen years old. I like the hum of the diesel engine that permeates the cabin.

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Verse 1
Movin in and movin out, still got more junk than I've throw'd out,
How many time have I asked myself "Is this something we could use?"

Starin at the barren floor, and I can barely shut the door,
It's just so hard to choose between these boxes and these blues

Verse 2
It used to be, it used to be, you standing, starin back at me,
Now those days are gone, you're just a number and a name,

A smilin' voice without a face, a memory I can't erase,
and though you're in some distant place, I think of you

Ch.
and My Greyhound Coach is comin,
I can almost hear it humming
Baby I'm coming back to you,

That's I'm picking up the pieces when this long dark winter ceases,
And the bright warmth of spring days is here

Verse 3
I've talked all I can talk and I've said all I can say,
My lips are sick of speaking so I'm trying to take a break from the telephone,

Paint me a picture baby, drop me a line,
Not sure if I can answer, but rest assured I'm fine (and I'm comin' home)

Ch.

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from If I Walked on Water, released October 14, 2011

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Ted Hefko and The Thousandaires New Orleans, Louisiana

Ted Hefko & The Thousandaires stir up an intoxicating brew of the profound and the profane, of virtue and vice and most importantly the volatile in-between. Ted’s songs explore hope and hustlers, saints and strays, drifters and the down-and-out. The band brings these stories to life with the spontaneity of jazz, and the rough-hewn, bare-bones tone of backwoods rhythm and bllues. ... more

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