Name: Going Home Blues
Duration: P00H03M06S
Description: I offered a heartfelt compliment to a wonderful musician once, and was made to feel like a crawler in front of a number of my peers. It still niggles me to think of it. The song is also polluted by memories of some of the wine-soeaked, all-night, candlelit discussions of my teens... hours of conversation that vanished like meaningless smoke in the morning.

Going Home Blues

from The Book of Absolution (2022) by Anthony Toner

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I offered a heartfelt compliment to a wonderful musician once, and was made to feel like a crawler in front of a number of my peers. It still niggles me to think of it. The song is also polluted by memories of some of the wine-soeaked, all-night, candlelit discussions of my teens... hours of conversation that vanished like meaningless smoke in the morning.

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Going Home Blues

Some people will keep you up all night,
thinking of something to say.
It can bleed your heart a deathly white
in the cold light of day.
Daybreak was blue, and the birds were singing slow,
and I knew the time had come to let the whole thing go.
Got up that morning, and put on my going home shoes,
and I walked out with the Going Home Blues.

You can fool some of the people some of the time,
with the lights way down low.
Blow out the candles, and you lift the blinds,
there’s nothing but daylight and smoke.
I went out the front, and I sat down on the wall,
and I tried and tried and tried to make sense of it all.
I went back inside and put on my going home shoes,
and I walked out with the Going Home Blues.

You can tell when it’s time to draw the line,
and you’ll know exactly what to do.
I’ve never been one to hold a grudge,
but I’ll make an exception just for you.

You might have made me look small in front of these dear friends,
yeah, that happened once, but it won’t happen again.
Got up this morning and put on my going home shoes,
and I walked out, with the Going Home Blues,
and I didn’t look back:
I just walked out with the Going Home Blues.

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from The Book of Absolution (2022), released November 14, 2022
Anthony Toner: Vocals and Guitars
Matt Weir: Drums
John McCullough: Hammond Organ
Clive Culbertson: Bass

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