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Every Now and Then a Sunset

from Songs to Get You From Here to There by Wes Weddell

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We loaded our provisions in a shoulder bag,
Eased the car into the morning haze
The night before I’d played my soul up north a way
Driving back to drive away again
The radio brought baseball from Toronto
Early on the road to one-sixteen
We waited for the rendezvous at Martha’s
Sky of blue and sea of sandy green

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Sullen rains in southern counties
Wily winds upon the plain
Every now and then a sunset
And a tacit vow to do it all again

Can’t say that we started down the right path;
Can’t say I was ever one to mind
We went from DMB to DMC to symphony
Any day or season, any time
Yes, from ferryboats to city busses
Nothing kept us down:
Dome to hillside, smoky bar to beach
We waded lines through different zip codes
Sometimes scores of empty chairs
Neither felt beyond our dogged reach

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On a long and lonesome highway
East of OlyWA,
You can listen to my carburetor
Coughing in the dark
As we limp back to the city
One more down, another coming
Turn the page…

Till one night Jimmy stood before us
In a damp and chilly scene
Surrounded most by Gore-Tex and grass skirts
And it hit me just like lightning
(Though it might have been the rum)
We’d found wisdom for the ages
On the region’s many stages, me and Jay

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from Songs to Get You From Here to There, released December 6, 2006
WW: guitars, vocals, bass
Brian Hoskins: organ
David Bush: drums & percussion

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Wes Weddell Seattle, Washington

For the past twenty years, Wes Weddell has worked multiple shifts in the engine room of Seattle’s roots music scene as frontman, sideman, writer, teacher, and community-builder. "Always heartfelt and well-constructed" ("Seattle Weekly"), listeners have come to expect Weddell's songs to "speak for themselves" ("No Depression"). ... more

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