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I wrote this song on my girlfriend's porch at 3am when I was between apartments and just starting a new job in Kansas City. Thematically it's a song about those beautiful moments when you're really down. Somehow even when you've lost everything, the moon can still take your breath away. It's a meditation on the feeling that even though things are bad, they'll get better if you can wait it out.

This song was also recorded onto the 424 (vocals, electric guitar, and piano) with bass, percussion, background vocals on the MPC1000. Musically it's another homage to Tom Waits a la Mule Variations.

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Ain't there something 'bout the moonlight
To make you miss your home
Ain't there something 'bout that starlight
To make you feel alone
Ain't there something 'bout the wind blowin'
Ain't there something 'bout the snow snowin'
There's something 'bout the moonlight
When it's hard, hard going

Ain't there something 'bout those white lines
To make you feel alive
Ain't there something 'bout those back roads
And the late night drives
Something 'bout rolling down your window
With the radio on soft and low
There's something 'bout those white lines
When it's hard, hard going

When It's hard hard going
Feels like I can't go on
Everything I see
Is going wrong
When It's hard hard going
Can't even sing my songs
I guess I'll have to wait
Hope it don't take too long

Ain't there something 'bout those dark nights
When you just can't sleep
Ain't there something 'bout those dark thoughts
The ones that start to creep
Questions with answers that you can't know
So let the wind blow, and the snow snow
There's something 'bout those dark nights
When it's hard hard going

When It's hard hard going
Feels like I can't go on
When everything I see is going wrong
When It's hard hard going
Can't even sing my songs
I guess I'll have to wait
I guess I'll have to wait
I guess I'll have to wait
I guess I'll have to wait

I guess I'll have to wait
Hope it don't take too long

credits

from Love and Trust (In the Age of St. Sugar Britches), released June 22, 2018
Written by Kyle Reid
Performed by Kyle Reid
Mixed by Adam Taylor
Mastered by Kevin Lively

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Kyle Reid Norman, Oklahoma

Kyle Reid is an Engineer/Producer, a Jazz/Folk Singer/Songwriter, and a beatmaker creating sounds for your ears.

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