Someday

from Songs For Fred by Jay Williams

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Me and Fred, camping in the mountains above Santa Barbara, circa 1982. It was Thanksgiving. Always.

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There’s a certain kind of lonliness
you get when you’re not alone
A perculiar brand of homesickness
that happens when you’re home
When the house is full of happy sounds
your silence starts to roar
When the fire on the hearth burns bright
the wolf is at the door

Someday... these friends will all be gone
Someday... forever ain’t so long
Someday... will rob you like a thief
Someday...today will seem so sweet

There’s a certain quiet mountain lake
I like to go and swim
The ice cold water wakes me up
if I can just jump in
There’s a certain joyful dividend
in each painful mistake
A certain pilgrim’s progress
that cannot be escaped

There’s a certain kind of brotherhood
that’s carried on the wind
A special sort of sisterhood
you’ll never find again
And all the wealth you’re looking for
is there for you to get
In the eyes of everyone
that you’ve already met

And when that wolf is at the door
and my fire starts to dim
Your eyes will be the quiet lake
where I’ll wake up again

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from Songs For Fred, released September 23, 2014
Joe Prater, harmony vocal.

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Jay Williams Bainbridge Island, Washington

Grew up in L.A., next door to Rodney King. Foster kid, on welfare, muttsville. Heard John Prine at the Roxy when I was 16, changed my life. Stumbled into KROQ in the 1980s, got my 15 mins of fame. Moved to the Northwest, found community, then lost them when compassion became their justification for fascism. I'm over humans. These songs feel like phantom limbs. Cats are my gurus now. ... more

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