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I think this is the countriest song on the album, it didn’t start out that way, but then Joe Boon played those shuffling drums, and Kara McKee sang harmonies like Emmylou. Jon Graboff (of Ryan Adams & The Cardinals) added some pedal steel and all of a sudden we had a country tune.

I’ve spent a lot of time saying I’ll do things ‘someday’. Someday I’ll get my sh*t together. Someday I’ll quit the job I don’t enjoy, go live somewhere else. Someday I’ll make a record. A whole lot of time spent waiting for someday.

Nothing happens unless you make it happen.

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I drive out to the edge of town
I turn the engine off and watch the water
Here the river's wide and deep
All that water, running on and onwards
I keep having the same dream
Where I let that current carry me
Far away from everything I know
I just think about that feeling
Until I turn the engine on and I drive home

Cause you wouldn't believe
How much time you can waste
Trying to leave if it's easier to stay
They say a watched pot never boils
Boy, I never even lit the flame
You wouldn't believe
How much time you can waste
Waiting for someday

But time is like that river too
Winding on it's one year then another
It fills your mouth full of excuses
Tells you that you're happy with your lot here
Now I'm standing in my kitchen
Staring out the window
Watching sparrows catching tiny butterflies
Trying hard to listen to the voice down in my heart
The only one that still knows when I'm lying

Cause you wouldn't believe
How much time you can waste
Trying to leave if it's easier to stay
They say a watched pot never boils
Boy, I never even lit the flame
You wouldn't believe
How much time you can waste
Waiting for someday
Waiting for someday
Waiting for someday

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from Nothing Stays The Same Way For Long, released September 16, 2022
Steve Wallis: guitar, vocals
Joe Boon: drums, bass, guitar, piano
Kara McKee: vocals
Jon Graboff: pedal steel

Written by Steve Wallis
Produced by Joe Boon & Steve Wallis
Recorded and Mixed by Joe Boon
Mastered by Doug Van Sloun at Focus Mastering

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Steve Wallis Paris, France

Steve Wallis writes honest, clear eyed folk songs, driven by his shrewd fingerstyle guitar, and his wry gift for finding joy in the melancholy. His songs are old letters from ex lovers, regrets folded into fond souvenirs, that final glance back before rushing onwards.

In 2018, Steve's song 'Melbourne Rain' reached new success after it was featured in PS4 game Detroit: Become Human.
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