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All Words & Music Written, Performed & Produced by Josh Taylor. Copyright 2009.

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It's a mystery to me
Your looming porchlight melody
The way it rambles on
Like a vagabond
So sure of the road he seeks
But it won't be long
While he is gone
That he'll return to you to weep
As just a brown-nose boozin' beggar
Bound to flounder at your feet
And after you neutered
All your future suitors
And you paid them for their time
They still drag their hands
Like chimpanzees
And they swing from all your vines
Well they ain't too sure
What they're fighting for
But like soldiers fall in line
With a hymn to hum
They'll sing your song
Be the rhythm to your rhyme
Well any old time

Baby baby since the day I found you
Swore I'd never let you go
But baby lately it seems I have to hound you
I'm a hungry wolf but you just won't feed my soul

Well your hypnotist
Paid lip service
To your need to redesign
All your trains of thought
Though he really ought
To be afraid of what he'll find
You see, the main street fools
They wrote the rules
To the sidestreets in your mind
Yeah, they're in it
Only to win it
And they're the sorest losin' kind
They threw a town parade
On the palisade
In the honor of your majesty
They sent streamers flyin
High in the sky
And shot fireworks from the sea
And the dunce-cap Joe's
They tote no cloaks,
They display their full disease
That they want nothing less
Than for you to be impressed
See, they're aiming just to please
For anything you need

Baby baby since the day I found you
Swore I'd never let you go
But baby lately it seems I have to hound you
I'm a hungry wolf but you just won't feed my soul

After your whirlwind trip around the world
Became a tour of your own perfection
You drank your pride
By the riverside
But you don't see your reflection
And the saddest of all these
Tragedies
Is there really ain't no exception
Still, fortune falls
In the sun that calls
And it aims in your direction
Well but one dark day
In the warmth of May
They're gonna steal your only sunshine
They're gonna lay
Your pretty face to waste
And you'll be left there wondering why
Remembering all those
Old sad souls
That you left so far behind
They still sing their song
Going all night long
And it echoes in your mind
They sing it like chimes

Baby baby since the day I found you
Swore I'd never let you go
But baby lately it seems I have to hound you
I'm a hungry wolf but you just won't feed my soul

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from A Little Blue (Full Album​)​-​2009, track released December 15, 2009

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Josh Ward Taylor New York, New York

Taylor is one of many contemporary singer-songwriters who plants one foot firmly in the roots of artists such as Bob Dylan and Neil Young while at the same time pushing forward with his own unique voice. And Taylor’s particular voice so imbued with a sense of honesty and earnestness that it is almost impossible not to welcome each of his songs with open arms.-American Songwriter ... more

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