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Drew Winn

by Drew Winn

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1.
In another place, another time Across a million memories Of yours and mine The path was clear The air defined I walked alone, I walked the line Never tried to force the feeling The hope was all homegrown There was no ceiling But I let the months and years take over And put me back to square one starting over I’ve seen some friends Move throughout their lives Never seem to suffer much Never seem to find the strife But behind those eyes You never know If their path was clear If they walked alone Never tried to force the feeling The hope was all homegrown There was no ceiling But I let the months and years take over And put me back to square one starting over I’m older now, it’s plain to see The lines across my face tend to remind me If I could take it back, wouldn’t change a thing Maybe cut myself some slack, a little less grieving (suffering) Never tried to force the feeling The hope was all homegrown There was no ceiling But I let the months and years take over And put me back to square one starting over
2.
Got no home no place to run to My pocketbook is looking bare And it’s been so long since you told me That you’d no longer be there And I don’t sleep at night without you Spend the time with long lost friends Friends I knew the years before you and I Ain’t it funny how those circles never end And I swore I’d never bring you down with me If I just happened to fall Now it seems that is harder than hell To just forget about it all So next time, you see me there just pretend That I never really even cared Never broke promises, never let you down Never broke your heart, never fooled around Coo Coo Cachoo And I swore I’d never bring you down with me If I just happened to fall Now it seems that is harder than hell To just forget about it all And I don’t know what kills me more Complacency or these pages torn from my heart And I don’t know just where to run to And I don’t know how far I’ll go And I swore I’d never bring you down with me If I just happened to fall Now it seems that is harder than hell
3.
Chinatown 03:04
This heart of mine Keeps decent time Though my ears may be weak And my eyes may be all but blind I still have sense enough to fear That I'm not much without you near I've paid my dues Loved one or two But still it keeps boiling down to you So choose to be my victory or vice Either way, I still want you here tonight Heaven knows it's hard to find another Oh, hell knows it's got a home for folks like me There will come a day (there will come a day) When the Earth will cease to spin (Earth will cease to spin) You'll hold me close and say (hold me close and say) "My god, where have you been?" I've been around Old Chinatown Happily lost But oh, so easily found Yeah, counting the stars above the hill Beneath some old moon Humming my tune I'll see you soon
4.
Mint green walls an empty stare Foreign land a stranger there Cars are passing through the rain Shame is sorrow life's a game But there ain't nowhere to go Cause it's pouring down Can't even wander around this town I've been stuck in the middle and in between Can't even believe half the shit I've seen And after all this time, you think you'd finally find the key It seems you never do, you're just searching for eternity But there's no need to rush. You're gonna find out what it all means It's gonna wake you up, it's gonna stir you just like a dream It's gonna stir you just like a dream It's gonna stir you just like a dream It's gonna stir you just like a dream I've lived for more and I've died for less Been down so low in this loneliness Been down those roads that lead nowhere Easy to find so be aware But the world still turns and it always will Ain't got time for standing still Call it religion, call it what you will But when you're playing the game, you're living for thrills And that's all. And that's all And after all this time, you think you'd finally find the key It seems you never do, you're just searching for eternity But there's no need to rush. You're gonna find out what it all means It's gonna wake you up, it's gonna stir you just like a dream It's gonna stir you just like a dream It's gonna stir you just like a dream It's gonna stir you just like a dream And after all this time, you think you'd finally find the key It seems you never do, you're just searching for eternity But there's no need to rush. You're gonna find out what it all means It's gonna wake you up, it's gonna stir you just like a dream It's gonna stir you just like a dream It's gonna stir you just like a dream It's gonna stir you just like a dream
5.
It’s not as though I was waiting, for you to come along I was just there reflecting, on how the day had gone so wrong But there you stood, your eyes met mine, you asked to bum a light I had no way of knowing that I’d fall for you that night Said I’m gonna catch you if I can Down the road we’ll be older holding hands If you see things the way I do then in your mind I’m holding you And I’m gonna catch you if I can And now I try not to hurt, but it’s hard when you’re not around You take up so my space in my heart and my mind You’ve won me over, and it’s all that I can stand Said I’m gonna catch you if I can Slow and steady wins the race and that’s what I’ve always known So I’ll try not to push too much, or hurry you along But in my mind, you’re in my arms, and no one can come between Just please just come back darling and I’ll show you what I mean Said I’m gonna catch you if I can Down the road we’ll be older holding hands If you see things the way I do then in your mind I’m holding you And I’m gonna catch you if I can And now I try not to hurt, but it’s hard when you’re not around You take up so my space in my heart and my mind You’ve won me over, and it’s all that I can stand Said I’m gonna catch you if I can Said I’m gonna catch you if I can
6.
The Distance 04:26
I wrote it down in pencil. Expecting to erase it again It never looks right on paper. Like the words of holy men I came to you wide open. Asking you to let me in. Without hesitation, or trying to pretend Now here it is Sunday morning new And all I want is to be close to you The distance has me stumbling I trip I fall I’m back again Baby there is something we could do So stay with me. You’re all I need. The way you talk has got to be The most moving thing I have ever seen So when you’re out there living your life when I’m not around Will you think of me, my darling, when you hear a familiar sound It might be just a line you know, or a song to which we danced Or maybe it’s a melody that reminds you of the night we met Now here it is Sunday after noon And all I want is to be close to you The distance has me stumbling I trip I fall I’m back again Baby there is something we could do
7.
I wanna tell you One more time I wanna see you In the morning light When the sun it finds you sleeping And grazes your face I put on the coffee And watch you through the percolate Driving home on that lonesome road I feel the hesitation Wanna turn it back to find you And scoop you up again And I wanna tell you That I just can’t see A day without you in it Or a night, where you’re not next to me Driving home on that lonesome road I feel the hesitation Wanna turn it back to find you And scoop you up again I wanna tell you One more time I wanna see you In the morning light In the morning light
8.
Turn To Fall 04:23
When the battles rage, do you run and hide? Do you find it hard, to pick a side Do the winds of change always knock you down Or do you find your love in a new day coming ‘round Cause this old world don’t stop for no one Before you know you’ve nearly missed it all Can’t tell where all your friends are going Your endless summer just turned Just turned to fall Were you always living in this old town Or did you find it hard to stick around Did you never take the same road twice Did all the dead end streets finally make you realize That this old world don’t stop for no one Before you know you’ve nearly missed it all Can’t tell where all your friends are going Your endless summer just turned Just turned to fall You like the view from here so you build a wall Before you know you’ve nearly missed it all Cause this old world don’t stop for no one Before you know you’ve nearly missed it all Can’t tell where all your friends are going Your endless summer just turned Just turned to fall
9.
On My Sleeve 03:30
Walking around on egg shells, stepping over you Holding back and fightin the fact there’s nothing I can do To keep you in my company, to have you by my side But to today threw me a tragedy, one I cannot hide My head’s hung low I’m trying not to show But it’s written all over me You could spot it from a mile away You can see it on my sleeve The tea kettle whistles, like it’s calling out my name Ringing in my ears, but it can’t distract the pain That follows all around me and haunts me everyday Looking through the recent past and looking for a way My head’s hung low I’m trying not to show But it’s written all over me You could spot it from a mile away You can see it on my sleeve I gave to you a roadmap to lead you to my door I charted out the waters to make the journey nice and short But one wrong turn was taken, leading you away I can’t make you want this, and I can’t make you stay My head’s hung low I’m trying not to show But it’s written all over me You could spot it from a mile away You can see it on my sleeve My head’s hung low I’m trying not to show But it’s written all over me You could spot it from a mile away You can see it on my sleeve
10.
Try to be as simple as a man can be Try to take care of others before I take care of me But when the nights drag on for so long and the mornings come so fast The way my head’s been spinning I’ll be lucky if I last Tell me where did I go wrong and how’d I put you out I could’ve took the high road but I chose a path of doubt Why did I do the things that hurt you so Why the self destruction and these everlasting lows Well I know I’m in the wrong here and I know I can’t be right ‘Cause I know the feel of darkness, and I know the feel of light But everytime I try to look down that line It disappears without a trace right before my very eyes Tell me where did I go wrong and how’d I put you out I could’ve took the high road but I chose a path of doubt Why did I do the things that hurt you so Why the self destruction and these everlasting lows
11.
One day at a time, cliché they always tell me Better stay the line, why would I she won’t have me Further down the line, I’ll tell ‘em like you told me Keeper of advice, but wise they will not call me So I’m trying to find the time, it keep sliding into home place Present state of mind, scattered as of late I made that sacrifice, sold my soul out to this place So forgive me all my sins, I’m just trying to breathe easy And let somebody in, but lately it’s not been easy To hear it from a friend, with a voice that’s lost to traffic This thing will come around, put a past into a suitcase and leave it on the plane, there’s no need for baggage claim So forgive me all my sins, I’m just trying to breathe easy And let somebody in, but lately it’s not been easy To hear it from a friend, with a voice that’s lost to traffic One day at a time, cliché they always tell me Better stay the line, why would I she won’t have me Further down the line, I’ll tell ‘em like you told me Keeper of advice, but wise they will not call me
12.
Don't Wait 08:06
Don’t wait, don’t stop, don’t say you never had a way out When you can’t find that I’ll be right here, I’ll let you know with every beat of my heart dear When you say I will, the cars are rusting, world is still Just stay, don’t you move I know better than you the way that I could love you Oh I do, oh I do I said so long, but what I meant to say love is I’ll be right here holding on I’ll strum, I’ll sing, I’ll know when you could wear my ring I know that I would have you girl, if you’d just let me know. Let me know So let’s go down to that strawbale town and spend some time together I’ll hold you tight, I’ll hold you right in the days and through the weather And we’ll go out, and we’ll go play, and pick the wrong restaurant but it’s all the same Cause it’s all with you When you say I will, the cars are rusting, world is still Just stay, don’t you move I know better than you the way that I could love you Oh I do, oh I do
13.
Feeling too low to make these notes ring true Words in my head are swirling all around you Heard the song before but today it sounds so different Like the blues got ahold of my ears holding back the tears that I’ve once tasted Most of the time it pours to the pages like a summer rain But tonight’s dry as a desert, with a heart so thirsty can’t quench the pain Put in a good fight, try again I might on a better day When I hear the notes ring true, maybe lying next to you in another life Going from a major to the minor to the minor 3rd Playing through the darkness just to conjure up another word Stuck in between, grinding through to find the gear Can’t last forever guess I’ll just wait right here Well my mind says suck it up kid Ain’t nothing that you did but my heart says different Yeah you gotta push on through, there’s nothing you can’t do And I don’t believe that Cause I never felt this strong, ‘bout being so damn wrong there is no fixing Going from a major to the minor to the minor 3rd Playing through the darkness just to conjure up another word Stuck in between, grinding through to find the gear Can’t last forever guess I’ll just wait right here

about

How did this record start…
January 24, 2021. I’m en route to Orlando for a trade show. My dear friend, Tom Bukovac, is putting me up for the evening just outside of Nashville. We’ve known each other for years, though never as collaborators in music. Buk lives in the world of music creation. I live in a world of facilitating music creation by providing the necessary tools (i.e. selling guitars). But when either one of our days end, there is the common thread of doing what we enjoy, which is creating for ourselves. Somewhere into the evening Tom says: “Hey man, show me that tune you were working on the other night.” Enter the pre-war Martin flattops. Grins begin over an A minor chord. I sing my way through verse 1, and then to the chorus. Back to the verse for some lead time, but Buk requests the chorus to play a solo, which, to me, sounds like angels accompanying MY SONG! I let it ride as if to say “yeah, that’s about right.” Lord. After a couple run-throughs it’s in the pocket. It has taken on two lives, instead of just one. A clink of a bottle, and it’s done. Time to play chess, which admittedly Buk is not only a superior player, I’d put money on the kid, but is possibly more enthusiastic about this game of squares than he is about music. It is ridiculous. And encouraging. The board is set. My ass is about to get handed to me… again. I’m walking into the other room and he says; “Hey Drew. You got some more of them songs?” Yeah man, I reply. “We should make a record.” And that, my friends, is how this recording was ignited. Buk and his boys were helping me run my booth at the Nashville guitar show in March and he called a couple weeks before to see if I could be there a few days early. I could. The next call was a confirmation of a triple session at Dorian Crozier’s studio on March 22. The record was becoming less of a “we should” and more of a “we are.” The session can only be described as capturing lightning in a bottle. The musicians were all in and all on. To you, Tom… From the bottom of my heart: Thank you! Clink, Clink. -Drew

credits

released November 15, 2022

The Musicians:
Drew Winn: Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar
Tom Bukovac: Electric Guitar, Acoustic Guitar
Jedd Hughes: Background Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar
David Dorn: Keyboard, Piano
Jacob Lowery: Bass Guitar
Dorian Crozier: Drums, Percussion
Shawn Fichter: Drums, Percussion
Kristen Rogers: Background Vocals

Produced by: Tom Bukovac
Recorded at: Dorian Crozier’s Studo
Engineer: Chris Utley
Mixed by: Vance Powell at Sputnik Studios
Assistant Mixed by: Mike Fahey at Sputnik Studios
Mastering: Pete Lyman at Infrasonic Sound
Cover Photo: Adam Murphy at Adam Murphy Photography
All songs written by Drew Winn, Into The Fold Publishing (ASCAP),
Except “Chinatown” by Alejandro Rose Garcia, ©Music Of Big Deal,
Dead Pawn, and “Turn To Fall” by Nathan Clewell (BMI) and Drew Winn

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