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The Day After The Night Before

by Terri Binion

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Long Way Back THawley Binion music BMI © 2015 It’s a long way back to feeling good It’s a long way back to feeling better The rain came down hard and it did not stop Now my soul’s out looking for it’s home My love was taken be the ill moves of a stranger It’s a sad lonely place where I stand It’s one step at a time for a broken heart to mend It’s a long way back to feeling good When I go swimming in that deep green sea I think of all the many ways in which one could easily slip away But I always return to that shining shoreline Because that long cold decent is simply no way to die It’s hard not to question the universes hand And the twisted ways of the law So I rebuild my faith one day at a time It’s a long way back to feeling good Everyone I know has something to say And it goes in one ear and out the other While I appreciate that, there’s no good reason why Someone killed my baby and it’s just all wrong When I go swimming in that deep green sea I think of all the many ways in which one could easily slip away But I always return to that shining shoreline Because that long cold decent is simply no way to die
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Tecopa, California tHawleyBinion music BMI © 2015 Tell me how does a boy, living in Tecopa Not die of exposure before he’s even reached the legal age to drive And who do you know that can get you out of town son Well I found you standing in the middle of the road Hoping I would stop and ask Stop and Ask Is that wheel chair there the only thing you’ve got round here to entertain you In this god forsaken desert where’s there’s seemingly no one else around for miles And what do you do the day through to keep your mind from abandoning you I can see you’re very fond of spinning circles round in that chair That dusty old wheel chair On that Wednesday that I saw you I couldn’t figure why you weren’t in school It was just another Wednesday, pressing hard down on that old Spanish trail Here and Shoshoni, the only gas between Death Valley and Las Vegas And I’m sure they’ll come a time soon here in your life When you face out and start your walking Your walking Where will you go the day your wings come in Will you fly or flail around Tecopa for a while Boy have you ever been kissed, ever had an urge beyond the torture That is the glow from that city of fools spilling into your nights Here in Tecopa How will you rise from here with nary a means to take you Pray you get washed out, drowned out come a sorely needed rain 12 years old and the burden of your being dying a slow burn And I bet if you could you’d put a motor on that thing you’re riding now That dusty old wheel chair Hey little kid I’m sorry Hey little kid I’m sorry I never stopped to ask How do you cope How do you cope When you’re living, slowly dying Here in Tecopa California Tecopa California How do you cope, How do you cope When you’re living ever burning Here in Tecopa California
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Walking In Circles I’m walking in circles over you I’m walking in circles missing you The moment you leave here The whirling begins I’m walking in circles all over again I tell myself Every time you fly It’s never too long It’s just for a while That you leave me here Left counting the days And spinning around With tears on my face What makes me fall When you say goodbye I make all these plans And then they go by I can’t seem to move here Except towards the floor And I’m walking in circles On this side of the door I’m walking in circles over you I’m walking in circles missing you The moment you leave here The whirling begins I’m walking in circles all over again The mornings are hopeful And the night times are too The loneliest times are the long afternoon’s When you can’t be here and I can’t be there When everyone’s somewhere with no time to space I’m walking in circles I’m walking in circles I’m walking in circles All over again
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It was day time in the door way It was nighttime in the bar And I said to you there From the opposite chair There are so many questions in this life But I wasn’t talking about Louisiana I wasn’t talkin’ devastation I wasn’t talkin’ common friends I wasn’t talking about the cruel weather I wasn’t talkin’ politicians I wasn’t talkin’ faulty ground What I was referring to was you and me I could of brought up all that happened I could of brought up all the lies I could of started on things that went down twenty years ago I guess I didn’t really feel like talkin’ Standin’ in that bar Mid City New Orleans Where the day would quickly turn to night Night would bring a whiskey round to the table Whiskey’d bring a memory to mind And I saw it for myself, I’d best keep things here tidy But what I really wanted to tell you Is about the shape you left me in And what I really wanted to ask you Is how you made it all right in your mind And my dreams went on forever And in spite of all the things gone wrong I stayed long in one place in love with you So we just talked about the music And we embraced the atmosphere And we drank a toast to all of those around us It wasn’t time for stacking up the losses I didn’t see a point in bending ears So we just kept all our talk about Lousianna
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These Days 03:44
These Days t Hawley binion music © 1993 I’ve taken up reading I’ve taken up sittin’ by this lamp The one that stands nearest to the telephone But I swear I ain’t waitin’ for that phone to ring It’s not that I’ve grown heavy It’s just the way I feel since you set me free It’s not that my clothes don’t fit anymore It’s just that I’m still carrying your love around with me It’s just the way I feel It’s just the way I feel It’s just the way I feel these days Blue is the condition when one of us is crying And the rain falls down Dark must be the world all around As both of us are payin’ now for the broken hearts It’s just the way I feel It’s just the way I feel It’s just the way I feel these days
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Orphan Boy 05:45
Orphan Boy An orphan boy keeps me at an arms distance He won’t give me straight answers, no and he set me up for clues He makes me want to shake him but he’d probably disappear He’s not much for hanging out and he makes it very clear For if an orphan boy were to fall in love with a girl Surely this would equal his merciless and quiet demise And he says to me “girl don’t you know when your contemplating loving an orphan You’ve got nothing to lose but your own sweet little day dream heart” An orphan boy can steal you with his assembly of thoughts And I must admit it was his story that slayed me at the start And it’s his glory in the portrayal that keeps him moving on Just a little of your sight, just beyond your touch And I crave his kiss oh, like it’s the last kiss on earth And he moves like a tide with a mood he can welcome himself And before you know it he’s packing it out and I feel myself fall Feeling like an orphan too cause he’s all I want To love an orphan boy Its like trying to feed a roving man And on days when he can feel his heart slip into the right place He likes to believe that it’s his mama still keeping an eye on her little man And when he’s lonely he pulls me in closer and the deeper I crawl To see that orphan boy break down and ball Like a baby in my arms I want to love you, hold you close and warm I want to cover you up, keep you for my own Oh, I want you, I want you, I want you Orphan boy “Yes only love can break your heart” “Yes only love can break your heart” “Yes only love can break your heart” “Yes only love can break your heart” Orphan boy
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Green Velvet Coat There’s more in the words that you don’t say Than there is that smile that you send You always deny me In Your Green Velvet Coat I’m aware when it’s not in the room And I can feel when it’s coming on Would you bait a perfect stranger just to watch me watch you down I can’t seem to make up my mind To walk away or take more of your sweet pain Or tell you what’s really killing me in drunk and cryptic undertones Envy is the color of his jacket And the same goes for these eyes that burn We were like fire in the lowlands Oh the heat and the whir We knew better and we minded our gap Still we did wonder up to that rail awfully close When we spoke of steppin’ up danger And this weary track that we both chose Always devising a plan in your Your green velvet coat Oh this ride won’t be over with too soon It takes a thief to find her own kind I rode with the master I stepped down to the platform I checked my bags and I could feel it go Pull away train, pull away heart Like a paid for ticket folded in half And sittin’ in the breast pocket of that green velvet coat We arrived our final destinations But with how much grace in tact, from here its hard to say Oh but I’ll remember a lot of things that were good enough about it And I’ll remember his boyish face Where I stand’s a long way And I can still feel his goodbye hand Oh but in my mind I’m still beside him Where the rail parallels the road And in my mind I’m still ridin’ along side his green velvet coat
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Call Me 03:20
Call Me There was all day long for me to think of you There’s all night long still for you to call It’s a lifelong dream that I’ve been adding on to It’s gonna be a long, long way when I fall from this wire There’s all night long still for you to call This house is just a place for holding things That don’t mean nothing to a life now or then It’s just a ground from where to run the phone line, tie line, life line Hoping that you’ll call and you’ll reel me in I’m on the wire There’s all night long still for you to call Morning is a sweet threshold of hope But it comes an awful drag in the afternoon Waning sun, waning hours, waning hearts It’s so lonely here since I’ve not heard from you Out on this wire There’s all night long still for you to call, call me There’s all night long still for you to call
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Burden Song 06:17
All night long in my dreams I pushed a broom all through my sleep I pushed that broom, but never did my wood floors come clean All night in my dreams I pushed that broom all through my sleep All these years an anchor out And through the years I’ve dragged it round Ready down, and steady as she goes How deep no one knows All this life with an anchor out Rarely able, seldom right Always putting up a fight That devil man, well he lives here with me Would you care to take a seat That devil man, well he lives here with me I found a bird pushed from the nest I put her in my pocket vest I took her home, I fixed her wing I gave that sweet bird, a pretty little song to sing I loved that bird, I loved her best I kept he wrapped up close, always near to my chest I loved that bird, then she set me free
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My Satellite 02:59
My Satellite Such sweet relief you bring me No brighter star could save me I look for my sweet relief Deeper love I needn’t look for Only a fool would stay fixed on mars I look for my sweet My satellite Sweet satellite Bright satellite My one and only Sweet satellite

credits

released March 25, 2016

Produced and Engineered by David Schweizer, Justin Beckler and Terri Binion

Recorded at Richter Records, Orlando, FL

Mastered by John Keane at John Keane Studios, Athens, GA

Terri Binion: Lead Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Banjo, Backing Vocals, Electric Guitar
Anthony Cole: All Drums and Percussion, Organ (7,11)
Doug Mathews: Upright Bass (all tracks except 6,10)
Missy Raines: Upright Bass (6)
Bryan Howard: Electric Bass (10)
Jeff Nolan: Electric Guitar (3,5,10)
Greg Perkins: Electric Guitar (4,7)
Wally Murphy: Pedal Steel (2,3,5,8)
Gary Hibbard: Pedal Steel (4)
Shelley Bareham Mathews: Viola and Violin (3,7)
Jessy Lynn Martens: Fiddle (2,5,8)
Eddie Lynn Snodderly: Arch Top and Slide Guitar: (6,9)
Alexandrah Love: Backing Vocals (1,10)
Anna Elyse: Backing Vocals (1,10)
Justin Beckler: Electric Guitar (2), Acoustic Guitar (3)
David Schweizer: Xylophone, Mellotron and other oddities (5)


Cover Photo of Patricia A Binion: Unknown
Inside Photo of Terri Binion: Jim Leatherman
Special Thanks to Brian Hawk, William Miranda
Management: Steven Foxbury/Yellow Couch Management, www.yellowcouchstudio.com

All songs copywrited 2015: T Hawley Music BMI

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