Ask Your Doctor- Nowhere To Go (original song)

Want to download it? http://askyourdoctor.bandcamp.com/track/nowhere-to-go

Just finished this one and I am extremely happy with it. This is one of my favorite songs I've written in a good while.

I've been inspired by soul more recently, and less by rock. I've also been playing piano like a fool, and so the natural result was this big piano-soul-ballad thing.

The lyrics are pretty straightforward and autobiographical. I graduated from college and have been having fun and spending all my money before I look for a job (soon because I am broke.) So this song is about how I have felt these past months: having fun, but with nowhere to go.

Tracks:
1. Drums
2. Piano
3. Electric Guitar
4. Fretless Bass
5. Hammond Organ (played through Reason with a MIDI keyboard)
6. Baritone
7. Trumpet
8. Trumpet
9. Lead Vocals
10-15 Backup vocals for the chorus

Lyrics:

Breakfast burritos in last night's clothes
We're talking about that party, you know how it goes
Well if I acted like a fool, or maybe a tool, and did I hook up, or did I throw up?
And if so in what order?
Hold that thought for just one second, that waitress is cute
Smooth my hair in the napkin dispenser, I know just what to do
Oh hey, how you doin? Oh my card was declined?
Oh well, nevermind, that's just me and my life

Well it's you and me and all of our friends
In a car that's just stalled at the bottom of the hill
And it's you and me and all of our friends
We could only slow down if we were moving at all
And we can't stay here, but there's nowhere to go

You say my future seems far and well, I agree
But you say that's not what you meant, it's something I can't even see
Well I don't want a loan and I don't want a car,
and I don't want a wife or a house or a credit card
I'd rather have one hundred whims than a single good plan
And I'd rather drive down to the beach and sleep in the sand
You say that don't work and you say that ain't right
When I was your age I was slaving away day and night

And maybe when I'm fifty I'll realize I've failed
And my mind will only focus on how I never could nail
How to love the things I do, and how to do the things I love
And my eyes will just narrow as I'm looking from above
But I just can't imagine regretting these days
No I just can't imagine regretting these days in a whiskey haze

Well it's you and it's me and it's all of our friends
We're just smoking our cigarettes and drinking our wine
And laughing and sighing and losing track of the time

Well it's you and me and all of our friends
In a car that's just stalled at the bottom of the hill
And it's you and me and all of our friends are just hanging out
We could only slow down if we were moving at all
And we can't stay here, but there's nowhere to go

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[Leif715]

Like this quite a bit. All the little fills with piano and the horns are awesome.

[AskYourDoctorMusic]

@Leif715 Thanks Leif! It was a lot of fun to record too. I just had this idea of all the instruments I wanted to stick in it

[capiscono]

cool. keep going man.

[AskYourDoctorMusic]

@capiscono it's hard sometimes, I lose motivation. But i will try.

[AskYourDoctor2]

@j2n ha, whoops, just so you know this is my other account

[AskYourDoctor2]

@j2n i appreciate the sentiment. But i'm not grown up, Im a kid in a big body

[j2n]

i want to be you when i grow up