Open E Tune

Some Other Time, 1995
Music & Lyrics by Travis Allison

As I watch from all around, I see the people smile
happy for what they don’t know,
but it keeps them standing for a while
and I think what are they doing?
then I think could it really just be me
but I just got to believe there’s more to life,
there’s more in life to see

chorus:
could someone help me out
I’m not quite sure of what to do without a life of living free,
it’s just that people live these day-in day-out days and don’t get out
it’s a wonder to me,
and I don’t know you, but show me inside, inside who you know to be
take my song and then you will, you will know me

understand me, listen to my call
'cause I need to someone to say I’m there for you,
I’m there for you to fall
‘cause at the rate that I’m going,
I’m going to need a friend like him
he’s all around me, always there for me
and always been

(chorus)

Maury's Truth

Some Other Time, 1995
Music & Lyrics by Travis Allison

What did you think about my past
when you found it out the other day?
I guess I’m not the kind of person you thought,
but please believe me when I try to explain
I think you would have understood my way
and maybe even changed the one who you are
if you had grown up in a different day
and maybe thrown up a wish to a star

chorus:
I’m coming to you,
‘cause I see the point of your point of view
you carried me through,
and I believe that you should finally know the truth,
the truth of my youth

I’m not the angel inside your head
that you created when I was born
I’m not the sweet little tea-sipping girl
that you thought I was that you could have sworn
I never liked all your stuffy parties
even though I tried to be polite
I couldn’t wait to get out of the house
when I could free myself with friends in the night

you live your life as a chaperone
I was living high and getting stoned
the only thing I ever worried about
was the day that I knew would come
when I would let this all out

what did you think about my past
when you found it out the other day?
I guess I’m not the type of person you thought
but please believe me when I try to explain
I think you would have understood my way
and maybe even changed the one who you are
if you had grown up in a different day
and maybe thrown up a wish to a star

(chorus)

Cafe Standstill

Some Other Time, 1995
Music & Lyrics by Travis Allison

At a small cafe in Birmingham you agreed to hear my call
I was somewhere on the coast feeling battered by the fall
what did you imagine, would it be the end of all
could we finally mend the pattern in between us—
and start tearing down the wall

God the world is fresh and sweeter than the snow
I once thought about myself as a man who no one knows
but take the change in time and changing winds in the sky
I guess I’ve changed my state of mind

look around and I will see you by and by
I once thought about myself as a man who could not cry
but in my spirit, in my heart and all my soul,
suddenly the tears began to roll
after all it’s just past midnight in my mind
feeling all the moments in our time unwind
look the sky is falling down, I can’t imagine being found
help me pull myself up onto higher ground
I need to turn myself around

I guess our story takes us back to one on one
it never seemed to be that way until we finally came undone
but none the less, it seems we’ve made it through the past
and now the future comes too fast

at a theater in my parents’ town I played a night last year
I looked out and across the crowd for your presence to appear
what did you imagine, would I blame it on the fall?
don’t you see the final pattern in between us
is the love that feeds us all

Mrs. Fate

I was looking for my world
her eyes are full of shining sea
her mind is loaded with the tallest tree
but now this world has forgotten me

you know I’ll never understand
but sometimes I feel alright
many times I miss her land
and god I miss her morning light

I heard she went on down the path
to be another world for another someone else
I heard they told her where she’s at
until she couldn’t figure out what’s in herself
… but that’s another story

and now I’m finally left alone
I feel I’m floating free in space
I wish I knew she’d come back home
my world is left to Mrs. Fate

did anybody mention
that my world is a girl and that girl is my world
I’m underneath the tension
of some sweet-talking guy between my sweetheart and I
and I don’t know but hope that in this life there’ll be a day
I guess it’s up to Mrs. Fate

so here I am it’s been three years
I’m by myself down by the sea
eating pasta, drinking beers
wondering if she thinks of me

and I can’t help but wonder why
she took all of me and left it for some guy
I guess it’s over anyway
I just love the way we’re dragged around by fate
see you later Mrs. Fate