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Long Way To Go

from Blue Macabre by Rob Birdwell

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"Long Way To Go" paints with lyrical imagery of a time long since past. There's mention of "Mulholland wind in our hair" which should be familiar to long-time L.A. and Hollywood days friends. There's a subtle string arrangement to sweeten things (just like Rob learned to write while at the Grove School of Music) and the middle section features Rob on all brass (Trombone - an instrument he'd just started playing, and colored with Flugelhorn and Trumpet for support). Finally, the tune states that "we still have a long way to go." Yes, we do!

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Long Way to Go words and music by Rob Birdwell

sailing away
day after day
laughing like fools in rain
we had a long way to go
long way to go

traveling roads
carrying loads
Mulholland wind in our hair
we had a long way to go
long way to go

and it’s not quite the world we imagined
back when dreams held the wolf at the door
I can turn from the past but now something is missing
and there’s no going back to before

further downstream
gathering steam
rowing on side by side
we had a long way to go
long way to go

there is no way to know why it happened
while we somersaulted on the trapeze
spinning this way and that now we’re left here to soldier
on with these memories

(interlude)

and it’s almost the way we imagined
back when dreams held the wolf at the door
I can look to the future with eyes a bit wiser
but there’s no going back to before

further downstream
gathering steam
rowing on side by side
we have a long way to go
long way to go...

we still have a long way to go...

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from Blue Macabre, released September 1, 2014

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Rob Birdwell Corvallis, Oregon

Rob Birdwell is a songwriter, composer, producer, and performer. He lives in Corvallis, Oregon. He sings, plays trumpet, sax, bass, piano, ukulele, and more. Thanks for listening and sharing his music!

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