One Way

from One Way by Danny Ross

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I've heard Bruce Springsteen say that he was aiming to write the biggest rock song of all time when he wrote "Born to Run." That certainly wasn't my ambition with "One Way," but I knew when I discovered that piano riff that it would be a Big song. Big chords, big arrangements, important lyrics. It may be my best set of lyrics - capturing the attitude of the whole album (which is why it also became the album title). I love the vastness of it. I actually listened to Born To Run quite a bit when I came to mixing it, borrowed a couple of ideas. Kudos to Evan Smith for killing that sax solo. "One Way" is also the closer at our live gigs, and it fits as a great conclusion to the journey.

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Well I've seen changes
Turning pages
All this writing on the wall

And perfect pictures
Holy scriptures
Still I'm bound to slip and fall

But all this faith
Has led me to your open gate
I'm always new
As long as I've got you

See I've left highways
Climbed from low ways
Tried to be a better man

And I've sailed oceans
Endless motion
Never knowing where I am

You've got to breathe
Nobody tells you what you need
But I can choose
As long as I've got you

And I want to thank you in the crowd
Now I can't forget what I have found
Got my feet back on the ground
Got my feet back on the ground

And I am swinging back around
And I'm just beginning to get loud
Got my feet back on the ground
Got my feet back on the ground

And all that's steady
Always ready
All my family and friends

Where I came from
All I ran from
I see now that's where I'll end

Cause you can't see
Heading one way down that street
There's only truth
As long as I've got you

And down that street
Man we can live how we believe
I'm living proof
As long as I've got you
Going one way

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from One Way, released February 1, 2010

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Danny Ross Brooklyn, New York

Melding vintage rhythm and blues, immaculate arrangements, and energetic, sweat-drenched live performances, Danny Ross builds a sound that's completely his own in NYC. Like some refreshing hybrid of McCartney's sophisticated 60s pop, Springsteen's American rock n roll, Gram Parsons' alt-country twang, and Sam Cooke Live at the Harlem Square Club. ... more

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