RYAN STATES: Music & Lyrics
IMMIGRANT (FISH OUT OF WATER)
Immigrant is about my longing to return north and move to nyc, which I later did. This is a work in progress. It will appear on the debut album out in fall. It features Bill Leary on tenor sax. Cameron Morgan and Kevin Breuner recorded the guitars remotely (Portland). Brian McRae plays a very musical drum track (Boulder). This was before I got my American Fender jazz bass. So I borrowed our old circus drummer's crappy bass. One string was quieter than all the others. So I smashed the bass track with compression, which I normally do anyway. lol Everything was recorded at the train except drums and 6-stringed instruments.
LYRIC I was stopped by the texas state patrol Didn’t like the sound on my radio I guess he never heard of Heatwave Do you like my shoes, do you wanna trade? I was told by a man of the cloth That it’s not good to be so soft He didn’t approve of the love I made Said that I was lost and that he was saved SOMETIMES FEEL LIKE A FISH OUT OF WATER AT TIMES FORGET I’M NOT FROM HERE THE SPIRIT LONGS FOR A MUCH LARGER WORLD BEEN WAITING FOR LIKE FIVE YEARS AGO Made a vow with my co-conspirator To emigrate up north together Said we’d give up all our lusts If we let another year get the best of us Then we’d be where the dreamers go Losing ourselves in the world capitol But now he says he’s gonna ‘make it’ in Sanger He got another place with another singer… chorus: repeat Gonna steal a ride if I need to There isn’t much that I would not do I may love someone, though it’s not fair But I still don’t know if I’ll ever get there Gonna quit my job for my sanity Wake up tomorrow, I’ll be seventy But hey that’s just another year And by the way things look I’ll still be here [bridge] Oh, it can’t be so I belong where I cannot go Oh, didn’t cha know We are all born alone sax solo chorus: repeat