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You Got Away With It

from Joy on the Landing by Stephen King

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Break the bottle of your design! ...This upbeat, foot-tapping, acerbic ditty is just what you need for escape.

After "minding the flock" at record/CD stores on the East Coast, I saw the industry come to a close in 2007. With the loss of my position, it seemed time to tell the story of trials, travels and travails spun over music.

The vocal, guitar and harmonica were recorded in one take. The piano intro and slide guitar played afterward by myself , along with tracking the always melodic, acoustic bass of Pat Metzger and subtle "bang on drums" of Joel Fountain. (Great performance guys!)

lyrics

S. King (c) 2012

Take me on another trip
Let me hear those tunes
I saved up my money after school
I put them on a sweet mixed tape to try and impress
Now honey that’s just what I had to do

(Chorus)
Yeah, I got away with it!
She said it, I didn’t
have to pay for it
Like some do

Down at the record store
I used to work... no more
Met a girl outside in a Boxing Day crush
She was standing at the front of the line
Said, “Come up and see me sometime.”
Well don’t mind if I hustle

(Chorus/ refrain)
Yeah, I got away with it!
You ‘gotta’ savour it

A shrinking violet
with a tin ear for silence
What did you expect?
Enlighten me with real music

Alas forsooth
I can't recollect
The onerous debt of my youth
I mowed a lawn or two!

(Chorus/ refrain)
I got away with it!
I didn’t have to pay for it
Like some fool
You ‘gotta’ savour it

(Bridge)
Whittle and hone
Cry for food
Now the rent is overdue
Steel your nerves and busk if you must
Mmm, hmm

(Solo break)

(Interlude/ Spoken word)

Shame on you
You’ve been caught red faced
Downloading tunes
I have a family, too.
In lieu of payment
We shell out the dime...
Each and every time

Down at the record store every Saturday afternoon
My ten foot cord hanging down looking pretty cool
I know you don't recall some Gap store in a mall
Playing that old canned music

(Chorus/refrain)
They got away with it
Didn’t have to pay for it
Like some fools
You ‘gotta’ savour it
If this is what you love to do

(Coda Tag)
A little toil, a lot of strife
To try and carve us a better life
A little toil, a lot of strife
To try and carve a better life
For me and you



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Chaos Music Publishing 2012

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from Joy on the Landing, released March 31, 2014
Recording Engineer - Joel Fountain (Vintage Digital)
Mastering - Brock MacFarlane (CPS)
Drums - Joel Fountain
Acoustic Bass - Pat Metzger
Piano / Harmonica / Slide / Acoustic Guitar / Vocals - Stephen King

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Stephen King Lunenburg, Nova Scotia

An award-winning guitarist well versed in folk & jazz combining genres into an amalgam of storytelling with improvisation, best described as indie-antifolk. Driven by experiences which express a personal, romantic and artistic idealism; at times political, while having social and environmental concern. Using craft and wit, the music draws inspiration from a range of traditions including Canadian. ... more

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