Jeff (from FAWM): This song is a collaboration with my best friend and sometime lyrical collaborator, Anthony, who’s not in FAWM. I told him I was doing this and he said, “I can’t really help you because my job is crazy and the only words I can think of at the moment are of the four letter variety.” So I challenged him to write lyrics about how we’re going to Vegas in 2 months and how that’s keeping him going, and this is what he sent me. I think they’re great lyrics, so here we are.
Mostly. I’ve learned two things already through FAWM:
1) I can’t write a country song to save my life. This song BEGS to be a country tune, with a sing along chorus and some honky tonk guitar, but that is apparently my kryptonite, because I couldn’t figure out to get there with the tools I have.
2) I can’t dote on a song like I normally would when only putting up one song a week on my blog. My math says we should all have 3.5 songs in the can right now if we’re going to hit 14, but I only have 2 because I spent a bunch of time trying to put this song into a country groove….so I finally just said, “Okay, it is what it is, let it go and move on.” So it’s a typically quirky Jeff C. production, a little poppy, a little something something…..I think I’ll revisit it in a month or two and see if it wants to be a country song, but because it’s February and I’m a little behind, here it is. Enjoy.
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Lyrics:
The fact that I know
Its eight weeks away
Tells you something about
Where my mind is today
The fact that I know
In 56 days
All of my demons
Will be swept away
In a sea of bright lights
Waves crashing with delight
As all the pain floats away
Bye-bye
I’m waitin’ on Vegas
Cuz it’s gonna take us
Countin’ on Vegas
To intoxicate us
Balloon drinks at Paris
Karaoke at Harrah’s
Just hangin’ ‘round Mandalay Baaaaaaay
I’m waitin’ on Vegas
Cuz it’s gonna take
Away
I just need to hang on
Keep banging my head on
This desk
Hope it all goes away
But I know it’s a lost cause
So I take a long pause
Count to 56
And dream of the day
All of this crap
Takes a long weekend nap
And I can go off and play
Night-night
I’m waitin’ on Vegas
Cuz it’s gonna take us
Bettin’ on Vegas
To emancipate us
I can’t lose at Wynn
Love the sights at Venetian
Just gotta last 56 daaaaaaaaaays
I’m waitin’ on Vegas
Cuz it’s gonna take us
Away
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A Chacon/Reynoso Thing
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