Waiting On The Wheel

from One Way by Danny Ross

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I was hoping to articulate some of the unintended consequences of growing up in this song. A lot of my songs are about individual relationships or insights into a personal philosophy, but this one concerns a relationship with people in the outside world and certain expectations. It's one of the truest lyrics I've written. Also check out the guitar solo, it sounds that way thanks to our killer ax-man Carl and our drummer Fred, who is constantly forcing us to think outside the box even when it's not his instrument.

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Waiting on the wheel
Floating in the harbor
The sun is rising high
Though summer's wasting away

Feeling like a stone
Drinking on a Sunday
I'm filling up my mind with nothing

I found this broken home
Along the open water
My banner waving high
Through all the weather I survived

And I returned in no parade
A sinking anchor, broken chain
Now I'm washed up
In the shore of my own weight

The more that you know
The more that it's nothing
And where can I find that feeling of home?

Well isn't it the same?
Yes, I received your postcards
But I cannot relate
Though I can't throw them away

Cause I don't know what to say
The wind carried me the right way
I'm right but I am wrong in some way

Cause the more that you know
The more that it's nothing
The more that you wind up being alone
And all that I've shown
Must lead to something
But where can I find that feeling of home?

Waiting on the wheel
Drinking into Monday
This ship will find the current someday

But all that I know
And all that I've suffered
Has only arrived at being alone
In all that I've shown
Inve believed in something
But where can I find that feeling of home?

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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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