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Halfway Home

from Days Between Stations by Radio Nowhere

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Halfway Home is the oldest song on Days Between Stations. The beginnings of this track go back quite a few years, to a New Year's field trip that I took with a bunch of friends to a remote part of Death Valley National Park. It's called Saline Valley, and it's about 50 miles from nowhere over one of the ugliest dirt roads in the state of California.

We spent something like five days there, and by the middle of the last night we were starting to feel like locals, limiting most utterances to single syllables and forgetting why we had formerly been motivated to bathe.

I remember looking up at the blackest sky I'd ever seen and a ludicrous number of stars and having the first two lines of the chorus of this song just swim into my head (though I was not actually then missing the sound of the freeway).

I sang those lines to myself all the way back to the Bay Area the next day, which annoyed the other people in the car mightily (it's a 12-hour drive). By the time we got home, though, the lyrics were essentially done. The verse piano riff arose out of the rhythm of the lyrics as soon as I sat down at the Rhodes.

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There was fever in the coal black boots that she wore
She danced like a hurricane coming ashore

Yeah, the warning came but I was too far gone
Tied myself to the mast/let the storm come on

So far/from your lonely room
Do you/miss the sound of the freeway
When you're halfway home you can call on me
When you're halfway home you can find me


Well I put up a red light/stop/she was through it
She was gonna come out on top and she knew it
She said "come on people, now, give him a hand
The ship's going down but you can still hear the band"


So far/from your lonely room
Do you/miss the sound of the freeway
When you're halfway home you can call on me
When you're halfway home you can find me

Oh, they said I should've known
One look and I turn to stone
I was waiting for you/I was waiting for you to come 'round
But your sailing tide, it was ebbing fast
And we were born to run, not built to last

So far/from your lonely room
Do you/miss the sound of the freeway
So far/from your lonely room
Do you/miss the sound of the freeway

So far/from your lonely room
Do you/miss the sound of the freeway
When you're halfway home you can call on me
And you're halfway home so far

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from Days Between Stations, released July 4, 2008
Written and recorded by Michael Baker

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Radio Nowhere is a singer/songwriter-led band from Oakland, California, in the United States. A friend told me that we sound like the missing link between Lyle Lovett and Led Zeppelin, and that sums it up pretty well. ... more

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