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You Used to Know

from Traveler by Andrew McKnight

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Dedicated to my old bandmates who were kind enough to travel 500 miles to play on this record, and to several other prominent people in my past who are a part of what I am. Names and places have been altered to suit how it could have happened :)

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Words & music A. McKnight, ©1994 Waves of Mountains/Catalooch Music, BMI

Verse 1
When I was a youngster, I’d top this treeless hill
and look out on this valley where, the lights of town grew still
and sneak back through the orchard, just to pocket apples sweet,
enjoying moonlit silence on my, deserted boyhood street
Verse 2
We were just 8th graders when, the music got too much,
spending every waking moment with a guitar’s gentle touch
and we would form a band and make it big, and everyone would say
I remember when those guys, were kids who couldn’t play
Chorus
It seems like things should never change and they never will,
and Jen’s still waiting tables down at Rizer’s Bar and Grill
the 5 & 10 still sells you stuff you’d barely use,
but things a kid like me would be, heartbroken to lose
good things come to those who wait, might be my turn to go
I’m still the boy you used to know
Verse 3
we survived the turbulence, and turmoil of high school
I sat at our junior prom, staring at you like a fool
and I was so in love with your elegance and grace
not knowing two years later that, you’d wear a mother’s face
Bridge
I’m fondly reminiscing bout, those bars we used to prowl,
a bunch of us old boyhood friends, staring at the moon to howl,
and I might be so lucky, just to spend the night with you,
and later recognizing all, the hurt I put you through
Verse 4
I still watch the sun set, but now it’s over Blue Ridge hills
it seems the things I’ve left behind, are with me even still
and you might hear my songs on, the big-city radio
just remember that that voice is still the boy you used to know
Chorus
good things come to those who wait, I hope you see it’s so
I’m still the boy you used to know

credits

from Traveler, released August 1, 1995
AM - vocals, guitar
Darrell Sabourin - electric bass
Matthew Bouley - drums

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Nationally-acclaimed singer/songwriter and guitarist celebrates rural America, weaves masterfully crafted songs, humorous stories and poetic drama into a musical soundscape sketched with shades of Appalachia, tasteful slide and jazzy blues, feisty anthems, and rustic folk. 5 solo CDs heard on many public & community radio, plus NPR "Art of the Song" & "River City Folk" and XM/Sirius. ... more

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