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Waiting for Greyhounds

by Alec Steinwall

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1.
Open Door 02:38
Open Door Baby you put perfect love High up on a pedestal And when I stand beside it I look broken down and crude You tell me time and time again How loving causes so much pain But you just suffer patiently So proud and resolute Chorus: You're a prisoner behind an open door What are you waiting for? What are you waiting for? There's no need to carry round That cross no more There's a world outside And there's an open door I guess I just never dreamed That love would ever come pristine But I don't mind the bumpy roads And I don't mind the flaws But you don't have to sacrifice Or put your happiness on ice I don't want you laying down And dying for the cause Chorus Never said I was a saint Nothing pure I couldn't taint But I can do without the tears And I can live with my mistakes
2.
Baby Grow Old with Me Oh, my friend you should know That my love for you has grown Every year I have treasured it silently And as our road slowly unfolds I’m so glad that you have chosen To make room by your side for my company I know how it goes Things fall apart But my love’s like a chain Pulls me back to your heart Chorus: Baby, grow old with me Baby, grow old with me In the morning when I wake It’s you I want to see Baby, grow old with me Tell me you’ll stay with me Without you I could never know The man I want to be I know that tomorrow Is like a wish wrapped in a dream No promises that it may ever come But even if I am blessed with forty-thousand days I hope that you’re right there in every one So, honey, I’m here Whenever you find That this world seems so unkind And the road up ahead climbs on endlessly Just reach for my hand Whenever you should fall I’ll be there right through it all When the night makes the going too dark to see I know how it goes Things fall apart But my love’s like a chain Pulls me back to your heart Chorus: Baby, grow old with me Baby, grow old with me In the morning when I wake It’s you I want to see Baby, grow old with me Tell me you’ll stay with me Without you I could not become The man I want to be
3.
Talk Radio 03:54
Talk Radio I know that it’s true Cause I feel it so strong I don’t need to prove it Cause I know I’m not wrong It’s just common sense Telling me that it’s so That’s why I listen to talk radio I’m a hard-working man I’m just trying to get by I hate when these liberals Try to get a free ride I pay all my taxes I don’t think that I’m owed That’s why I listen to talk radio That’s why I listen to talk radio Chrorus: I wanna hear about these young punks Shooting off handguns Just a slap on the wrist And all these single, teen moms Living on welfare Can’t keep their pants on Doing drugs, having more kids Thank God there’s somebody Talking ‘bout this Talk Radio, Talk Radio…etc. Chorus Politicians and bankers Like pigs at a trough Smiling and lying And ripping us off But there’s a tsunami rising Of average Joes That’s why I listen to talk radio
4.
Somewhere Between Somewhere between the words There’s the poetry Somewhere between the notes There’s the harmony Somewhere between the man you see And the dream you had of who I’d be There’s the heart that beats inside of me Somewhere between Somewhere between the pain There’s the promises Between the needs of each of us There’s the things we give Somewhere between the dark of night And the pale grey hope of morning light There’s the strength we’ll find to make it right Chorus: Somewhere between We’ll find the love Hiding beneath And rising above Nothing we dream Out of our reach We’ll find the love Somewhere between Somewhere between the pen And an empty page Somewhere between intent And the things we say Somewhere between the gentle touch Of the canvas and the artist’s brush There’s the life we’ll paint for both of us Chorus
5.
Note to Myself Saw a big raven on the shoulder of the road Picking at some road-kill roasting in the sun Made a note to myself, if I’m reincarnated And I get to pick my next life Don’t pick that one Look at all the green trees Swaying in the warm breeze Look at all the big clouds rolling by I’m driving in my Chevy Going down to see my baby Got a picture of her sweet face on my mind Look at all the dumb cows standing there like statues Wonder what they’re thinking as I’m driving by Made a note to myself, I know it may be really tempting An empty head is not the same as piece of mind Look at all the green trees Swaying in the warm breeze Look at all the big clouds rolling by I’m driving in my Chevy Going down to see my baby Got a picture of her sweet face on my mind Nothing like summer and being in love Your arm around your baby And the radio on Happiness raining from the heavens above All of your troubles are gone When I was a young man I thought I’d live forever But now that I am older, well, I’m glad it ain’t so Put my worries on a high shelf, made a note to myself Enjoy it while you got it Cause you got to let it go
6.
Sleep, my Darling, Sleep Sleep, my darling, sleep And I will wait beside you Though the night is cold And the darkness deep I have made a promise I will keep Yes, I will wait with you In your eyes I see A hope that I remember All the days that cover and bury me Fall away like snow from winter trees Fall away, and I am free All these things of this world mean so little to me They're the chains that we break when we wake from our dreams But my love, my love will remain Through the worlds we have lost And the worlds we have gained I have felt the years Break like waves upon the shoreline I have heard the seagulls cry my name Saying wake, the time won't come again Yes, I will wait with you
7.
Giving Point 04:30
Giving Point I’m sorry that I let you down Sorry that I never found The strength to make it good for you And the words to make it right I guess I had to grow a bit Had to learn to go with it But sometimes it’s all we can do To make it through the day Chorus: So we keep pushing on Until the giving point And in a flash the scenery changes And the road gets washed away And all the things we planned Are snatched from our hands And here we stand At the giving point I know that you were loving me But it was love I couldn’t see A language that I didn’t speak And could not recognize Life can be so cruel that way We see the truth when it’s too late And the words we finally learn to say Are better left unsaid We hurt and blame Then the pain can blind us And simple kindness Gets lost along the way But through the night The morning light can find us And it reminds us How everything has changed Chorus
8.
Soul-Sucking Job Monday morning comes, another weekend Has gone before I poured myself a drink Back to treading water in the deep end Trying not to sink Man, this nine-to-five is getting heavy I’m running out of fingers for the dyke Throw another sandbag on the levee And watch the river rise Chorus: I wanna spray Paint on this computer I wanna take A hammer to that clock I wanna trade This old life for a new one And find a place that time forgot And leave behind This soul-sucking job There’s vultures up there circling above me Creditors just waiting for my pay Nobody at the bank is gonna love me I need a holiday Cause in the end you’ll only want a little more And in the end you wonder what you did it for Chorus Hey, this job sucks my soul This job sucks my soul This job sucks my soul This job sucks. . .
9.
War-Zone Lullaby Tonight, he sends his tiny prayers Drifting off to space In case somebody's listening His mother lying close to him So he won't be afraid Pretending she is sleeping And all across the blackened town There's firecracker sounds And distant muffled wailing And every night this symphony Floats into his window And he listens to its lullaby Sleep, my child, the gunfire sings Go to sleep, the canons ring Tonight the bombs fall far away And the morning brings a brand-new day
10.
Thank You 04:36
Thank You I remember as a child The future spread out like an endless sea But you helped me raise my sails Taught me not to be afraid When I first felt the wind Now time has given me The chance to say what I have always known That every battle I have won Every song that I have sung Were from the seeds you’ve sown Chorus: Thank you for life Thank you for loving me I’ve always felt Your quiet strength Beneath my feet I know you’d gladly crawl To let me fly above it all Thank you for life Thank you for loving me And we are fallen leaves The river grabs us and we move along Takes us swirling on our way Spinning through the rush of days As they go on and on But there’s star that does not change Always flickers when I feel alone It’s the love that never dies It’s the same unbroken line That leads me home Chorus
11.
Ghost Across the Moors How many times have I waited for love To fill up the cracks where the rain still gets in A smooth runway when I come in on one engine A fat Cheshire cat to my asinine grin How many times have I used up my chances And sat like a criminal lost in despair But like lawyers who leap through their loop-holes like dancers Love always stepped up to answer my prayer And oh, I keep doubling back To this station on the circle track Like a drunkard's hand reaching for his pocket flask Again and again I believe that love will always be The star that guides the sailors back from sea And it shines above me like a grail A beacon on the shore A ghost across the moors that I have chased
12.
Waiting for Greyhounds He was a soldier Who died without firing Before he could see His enemy’s face And I was a sailor With no star to guide me Adrift on an ocean In a world without grace I have a picture Of when we were twenty The lines in your smile That time would have traced I wish I’d known then My heart was a camera I would have chosen To live in the moment Chorus: Deep in the quiet of night Time beats its menacing drums Racing my pulse with the pounding Until I am numb But with the sun on my face And with the wind on my skin I can return to these ending and learn to begin Back to a happier day. . . One summer we traveled West on a Greyhound The world painted wide And the long, endless road But just like the mountains Rising up from the distance Our future surprised us With its towering presence Chorus Back to a happier day Waiting for Greyhounds to take us away Back to the time when the world streamed love through its pores Like the wind through the trees
13.
One More Song for the Road Nights like these I ask myself What kind of life is this? There must have been some hidden exit On the highway that I missed I've played fifty-thousand songs In faceless bars, in nameless towns All blurred now like a single Van Gogh Painting in my mind Two-AM and all these lonely people know It's another night they'll all be going home alone And so they say Chorus: Hey, play us one more for the road One more little song before you go Won’t you stay and play us one more for the road Oh, won't you sing us one more for the road? While the waitress tallies up How her night has gone And all the lights come on But I've got one more song I have to play Maybe it's been coloured by All the beer I've had tonight But this one is for all the thank you's I forgot to say Two-AM and all these lonely people know It's another night we'll all be going home alone Chorus Nights like these I sit at this piano And I'm tumbling, spinning, whirling Like a fairground ride And I have seen The music spray like driving rain To wash away the painful places deep inside And so they say Hey, play us one more for the road One more little song before you go Won't you reach inside And lighten up our load Oh, won't you sing us one more for the road Oh, sing us one more song before you go Hey play us one more song just for the road

credits

released February 17, 2023

All Songs written by Alec Steinwall

Produced and Engineered by Jono Grant, at Victory Drive Music studio, Toronto, Canada.
Website: www.victorydrive.com

Drums performed and recorded by Mark Kelso, at Groovy Drum Studio, in Tor, Can.
Website: www.groovydrums.com

Piano on tracks 4, 6, 7, 9, 10, 12 & 13 recorded at Number 9 Studio, in Tor. Can.
Website: www.number9.ca

Cover Design: Wes Tyrell (westyrell@gmail.com)
Cover Painting: Alec Steinwall

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