This is the 3rd time I have re-done this song.
If you do not want to listen again, I get it.

I requested more "songwriter piano RTs" because I was never satisfied with what I was able to get from the earlier pianos (for this style song).
New pianos RTs are beginning to show up. But in the meantime, I taught myself to play piano so that I could do these type songs myself.

I now have this the way I've always envisioned it being.
I wrote this song 45 years ago. I still consider it one of the best lyrics I've written.


I played piano and bass.

BIAB did the background weeping...
RealTracks in song: 3159:Guitar, Baritone Electric, Rhythm AmericanaSlow16thsBrentFX Ev16 060
RealTracks in song: 2542:Pedal Steel, Background ModernBalladAtmosphere Ev16 065


CHOKING

been here since ten this morning
there's no end in sight
just my luck, i get stuck
with all the drunks tonight
comes to talking troubles
i'll find my voice
i'm working as a waitress
cause i've got no choice
my feet hurt so badly
i can barely stand
that busboy's so damn lazy
he won't lend a hand
another dollar tip
another pack of kents
i'd quit right now if i knew how
else to pay my rent

sometimes i wonder what it's all for
life's just a b-movie with no back door
is this someone's idea of a clever joke
since i was seventeen
i've been choking

my old man past away
seven years it's been
a heart attack at fifty-two
his job did him in
you bust your [*****] all your life
but it never pays
he left me here with nothing
but three kids to raise
i'm forty-six tommorow
you think my children care
it gets to where you count on them
not being there
they say to set your sights
on the highest star
that's just to keep you from seeing
where you really are

sometimes i wonder what it's all for
life's just a b-movie with no back door
is this someone's idea of a clever joke
since i was seventeen
i've been choking



Last time.
Promise.

fj

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