Another Stop Along the Road (a demo)

I like a two-step, Texas swing sort of song. I enjoy listening to them, playing them and writing them. (See One Day at a Time).

I wrote “Another Stop Along the Road” with a female singer in mind. So, if some of the lyrics lean toward the feminine, that’s why.

She’s telling her former boyfriend that she’s over him and even though he’s back, she’s “not holding my breath.”

There’s a chance they might get back together, but not much of one.

Although written from the woman’s perspective, I have had no problem performing it as is.

As with some of my other songs, the structure is more natural than standard: two bridges (a section that contrasts with the verse) where one is usually enough, though in this song, the last two lines are the same in each.

It’s those two last lines that I particularly like: the play off the words “scene” and “seen.”

The demo above is just me and my guitar

   Another Stop Along the Road

my phone keeps ringing with news your back in town
and everyone’s wondering if you’ve come around
but I’m not holding my breath or (canceling my) making any plans
and I think you know me better than that

(refrain):
yeah I’ll need to know if you coming back for good
or if this is just another stop along the road

1^st bridge:

when you left, I cried, but not for long
I picked myself up and learned, to carry on
now you’re back and making quite a scene
but it’s something I’ve seen before

I hear you’re saying what I always wanted to hear
but now I know a thing or two, I didn’t know then
like the moon, and stars still come out and play at night
and that ol’ sun, always rises, in morning sky

(refrain):

2^nd bridge:

I wasn’t born, to sing the blues
and I sure wasn’t born, to play no fool
now you’re back and making quite a scene
but it’s something I’ve seen before

(refrain):

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