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this another song from this album that's still part of every live show ten years later. I draw from my years on the road with the jam band idletime in twenties for most of the detail and wind up in New York City still striving.

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Don't know how to stop and I can't get started,
I feel like I'm just standin' in one place,
The road ahead remains uncharted,
And I got know time for saving face
Gotta make a change to stay in motion,
Gotta get some other point of view,
A brand new take and a brand new notion,
If I want my vision to come through,
I may get cross and I may be crazy,
May get lost, but I sure ain't lazy,
I checked my pulse and reviewed my ruling,
And I still believe my judgement to be sound,

Ch. I just gotta Trust my gut
Gotta Trust my gut,
Trust gut, Till the day that they lock me up

Tucamcari New Mexico, Twenty Dollar room,
Eatin' Cheerios is the grocery store parking lot,
Be in San Diego soon,
Pickin' tunes and passin' jars
Holdin' Court in the afterbars
Sleepin' bags on a motel floor
and you're back on the road again
Road to Austin, Texas on the Amtrack train,
Made it to Atlanta in the pouring rain,
Lack of vision nearly drove me insane,
But never gave up on hope

Ch.

Oh Lord take a look at me,
How did I end up this way,
Tell me what I got to give and what I got to take,
I've been edged out, I've been boxed in
I've been lost without a trace,
Had my share of success and my share of saving face,
I'm a saint and a sinner too,
Sing songs till the singing's through
And I don't care what anybody say,
I tried workin for the man but the man don't pay

Ch.

Oh Lord take a look at me,
Runnin' all around this rock
Wore through my soles and my Doctor Sholes,
Now I'm startin' in on the socks
Long before I started payin' dues,
Bound to skip a record when I heard the blues,
Light on experience so I took my cues from the songs that needle played
Now I find myself in New York City
Sometimes I wonder why,
Staring out the window at a brick wall
Wondering if it's worth a try

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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