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  1. 09 Paths Not Taken

From the recording Looking out a Picture Window

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"I wrote this song sitting at my Mom's kitchen table, and yes, I stole the main guitar lick off of an old Eva Cassidy recording "Wade in the Water [trad]... I lifted it note for note. I have a tendency to call this a 10 and/or 14 bar blues song... I had to fit in a lot of words to get my point across."

Bill Nash (guitar and lead vocal)
Dave Nachmanoff (bass guitar, slide guitar, piano)
Megan Kleven (harmony vocals)
Bart Van Der Zeeuw (percussion)

Lyrics

Track 9 - Paths not Taken – Bill Nash – Standard Tuning - Capo 3

Well, my feet have started moving, I don't wanna pay my dues
I've gotta get down the highway, I don't wanna sing the blues
I've got problems with my aging I no longer can refuse
It's time to run from hecklers who think they know what I should choose

I'd like to sit out on a white sand beach, and watch the world go by
Or high up on a mountain top with nature in my eye
I want to live in the sunshine, puffy clouds rolling by
With all the sky blue atmosphere I can find before I die

Chorus
‘Cause paths not taken are paths lost
There is no reconing the final cost
Who knows which choice will make it right
For all the things we choose to do tonight

Will I always miss the mark on the high road to the future
There are no second chances by any way I can measure
Am I asking too much for the universe to deliver
A few moments of solitude for this cheap skate beginner

So I guess I'll keep on moving, letting mystery take the lead
Continue to pay the piper as much as he may need
Start tilling up the garden and then planting every seed
You never know how many lost souls you may be able to feed (CH)

Bridge

Now that piper keeps hounding me
He tries to keep me under his spell
I never knew I was such a prize
But he keeps ringing my bell
I’ve given everything I’ve got to give
To make him leave me be
But he never stops chasing after
No matter how I try to make him see, that… (CH)