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Canyon Song
04:14
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Canyon Song
By Steve Hartsoe
© 2020 Pitcairn Music (BMI)
www.stevehartsoe.com
Verse 1:
When sorrows come by the dozen
And your morning star is lost in gray
And you can’t get out of a green room
Where a fault line runs through every stage
Chorus:
Can I hide in your shelter?
Canyon high above the freeway
Verse 2:
When truth becomes a suggestion
And the life you save might be your own
Well you know my love it is forever
So when I’m gone you won’t be alone
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How This Ends
03:20
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How This Ends
By Steve Hartsoe
© 2018 Pitcairn Music (BMI)
www.stevehartsoe.com
Verse 1:
Well she’s gone and everything around me fades
Now I’m down and I got no one else to blame
I’m cryin’ like a child wishing I was wild again
But never losing hope you and I we know just how this ends
Verse 2:
A time machine I keep looking for what went wrong
With all our dreams but there’s time to turn around
She’s cryin’ like a child wishing she was wild again
But never losing hope you and I we know just how this ends
Chorus:
How this ends
Verse 3:
If it’s gone then everything we were will fade
If you’re down you got no one else to blame
We’re cryin’ like a child wishing we were wild again
But never losing hope you and I we know just how this ends
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Crooked Crown
03:35
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Crooked Crown
By Steve Hartsoe
© 2019 Pitcairn Music (BMI)
www.stevehartsoe.com
Verse 1
“Anodyne” in my stereo
I turn it up when I’m feeling low
Spend my days runnin’ yellow lights
Close encounters of the losing kind
I go down looking on a 3-2 count
Another victim of a crooked crown
Chorus
First I’m up then I’m down
No saddle for me in this one-horse town
I’m gettin out just as fast as I can
I’ll see the world in a rock and roll band
Verse 2
Gave up whiskey and beer for Lent
My kids need shoes I ain’t got the rent
One step forward and three steps back
Someday I’ll get there and I’m gonna laugh
I’m on the ropes taking my daily rounds
Another victim of a crooked crown
Verse 3
For 20 years he turned the company around
Just 9 to 5 he never made a sound
Corporate king said, “It’s my world now”
Another victim of a crooked crown
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Best Friend
04:33
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Best Friend
Written by Kevin Michael Thompson
© 2001 CD Baby Publishing
Verse 1
You could spend your life in circles
With your head between your knees
Like some foreign dignitary
You found your car then lost your keys
Chorus
I could be your best friend
I’ll be yourself closest confidant
I could be your Huckleberry
I’ll be your next phase cosmonaut
Verse 2
You could spend your life explaining
You could spend your life asleep
Like those monkeys in the back room
All those shepherds with no sheep
Bridge
Stand inside the lighthouse
Watch the waves crash down
We’ll ride the neon highway
Until we rule this silent town
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Steve Hartsoe Raleigh, North Carolina
Steve Hartsoe is a Raleigh, N.C.-based singer-songwriter who blends the rock and folkie strains of Americana with keen lyrical observations ranging from the daily of life to the eternal – a thread that resonates throughout his new indie album, “Faithless Town,” out March 8, 2024, on digital platforms and CD. ... more
Steve Hartsoe recommends:
TOWN HALL/"Good & 'Live" @ the Red Clay Theater (2013)
by Bill Mallonee & Muriah Rose
a great live recording Bill playing some of his most compelling songs (and he has many)
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The Land That Time Forgot
by Chuck Prophet
What a great album! The songs, production, Chuck's guitar playing, Stephanie sounds amazing. A welcome reprieve from the dumpster fire that is 2020. Thank you, Chuck! Favorite track: Nixonland.
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The slashing roots rock on “Out On the Line” always makes its way to the kind of triumphant chorus that quickens the pulse.
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