Page 51 of Behind the Lights

We each shook his hand and introduced ourselves.

He leaned back in his chair before addressing us, “Nice to meet you. I’m excited to get to work on your next CD. Sal passed on your demo copy and I have to say I was impressed.”

“Thanks man,” Stoli said.

“I’m usually here early and stay until God awful hours every night. Here’s my number, text me if you need anything, but don’t come barging in because chances are I’ll be in the middle of mixing something and need to dedicate that time to that artist,” he said as we started exchanging numbers.

“Oh, I need make sure you each have mine as well,” Easton rattled off his number, we each texted him and Dave back to the sounds of the numerous pings filling the air.

“All right boys, we’ll leave you to it. Easton and I have some work back at the office, but he’ll check in with you later to see how things are going. Good luck.” They waved as they headed toward the front door, we returned to the tuning room where we’d stashed our stuff in to get to work on the melodies for the lyrics we’d completed.

After they’d unpacked and set up, we jumped right in.

“Hey guys, I wantTime to Move Onto be an acoustic. We could play that on stage mid show to give you guys a break, but I think if we all played on it then it would lose the meaning behind the lyrics that an acoustic would capture. Is that cool with all of you?” Stoli asked us as he handed over the lyrics.

If the stars are aligned tonight

I know I’ll be alright

Even though I know

No one’s gonna be there when I get home

Every time I reach out to you

You turn and run

Never there when I need you

Never there when you said you’d be

And here I sit, waiting for something that’s never gonna come

I watch you walk away from me

And straight to another’s arms

Why can’t you see what I see?

Chorus:

It’s time to move on

Time to let my heart heal

You’ve broken me down

Left me failing to believe

You failed me when I put my trust in you

And I failed myself, by believing you

I was lost when you found me

Broken and bleeding

Only to be left again

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