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Heartworn Highways

by Kevin Roy

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1.
Same Old Sky 03:09
I do believe we've been given That one special night But don’t take it for granted Cos it’s gone with the light I can’t go on with this feeling That you made up your mind Uncertainty is a demon And she’ll turn you around every time I cast a stone into the river I send the smoke into the night I’m gonna wait right here for you Beneath the same old sky I could have bet on the ocean I could have bet on the tide That I could build me a vessel I could sail it across to the other side She had a well filled with wishes She saved them till she died She never loved she never lost But lord only know how she cried
2.
Loving Arms 04:13
I don’t need a lot of money I don’t need many friends I don’t need to make excuses I don’t need to make amends I don’t need to be in your loving arms again I tried being something I wasn’t much at all I tried to join your circus never knowing where I’d fall From the tight rope leading back to your loving arms again Your loving arms are holding another one There was a time they held me before I don’t need to make excuses I don’t need to make amends I don’t need to be in your loving arms again I realized that the oceans are sweeping up the shore So I walked along the beaches till it cleansed my every pore I realized that I don’t need your loving arms again
3.
Gotta make some time for the finer things she said Twelve-hour days still living life in the red I awoke from hibernation to a cabin fevered inspiration Take what I can get to keep this hunger fed I’m feeling feeling that I’m starting to lose Cos its hard to make a living paying your bills when you’re trying to pay your dues With feet that keep moving it’s hard for me to settle down Someday I hope to find little a little place on the edge of town For now four wheels and a bachelor suite is all I’ll ever need Cos hands are in my pockets with the little bit of money that I’ve found I’ve got miles to go running fumes the dollars that I earn Spent in the diner on my feet and in my tank to burn
4.
Through Townes with flying shoes Not waiting around to die Colorado bound he set out running Riding on that white freightline He made some cash he was haggard A Highwayman though mama tried He had that rambling white line fever The cocaine blues and hungry eyes Down the heartworn highways You’re still bound to miss someone Who do you love little darling cos' this man is on the run His lonesome Colorado girl Her cheating heart cried that day He shed his tears five feet and rising Flooded out the lost highway With trouble in mind The bottle let him down The lovesick blues and a cold cold heart He heard that lonesome whistle sound In the city of New Orleans Sunday morning coming down From swinging doors and dead flowers His momma said don't take your guns to town He headed back to Colorado Asked his lover why baby why With a sinking heart he raised his pistol He sent her to that sweet by and by
5.
The mighty rivers on the rise The rivers on the rise She won’t come down till she takes another town And leaves the fields under her disguise My fathers waiting on the shine He's waiting on the sun to shine That old river is a taker Every day she gets an acre There's no pontoons on his combine My mothers praying for relief She's praying for relief Cos a family so small Couldn't build a bigger wall We lost our house to the river like a thief Sister's crying in the rain She's crying in the falling rain Cos the cattle and horse Swam away in the force Of the might rolling river on the plain Grandpa's rocking in his chair He's rocking in his rocking chair His strengths all gone Since grandma passed on The tears are filling up in his stare I never thought the day would come I never thought the day would ever come When the mighty banks would flood Spilling tears spilling blood And not knowing what the future would become
6.
All my friends have told me that my loves gone with the wind So I called up that hurricane to ask which way she’s been She had an eye on that city no remorse no pity My lover is gone with the wind But living in the prairies there’s no hurricanes around We’ve had us some thunderstorms tornados touching down No vacancy they’ll check in spinning and home wrecking My lover is gone with the wind Out in that western range the chinook winds they howl and moan If I were but a grain of sand she’d carry me back home But I don’t think she in these hills she’s not coming back My lover is gone with the wind
7.
There was a farm boy grew up in a small town Had a house on railway at the corner of main Met himself a lady a blonde haired troubadour She took his heart away down at the corner street bar Left that farm boy singing a sad song For his blonde haired troubadour He's hoping she’d settle for life in that small town She’s laying her roots down on every winding road When the tour was over she came back to him Got a job serving whiskey at the corner street bar They made a little home there soon they were married But a year in that small town and she was feeling fenced in With that farm Boy singing a sad song... Saturday evening at the bar on the corner Another troubadour came rolling in His voice was earnest songs were true She was the girl in his stories wanderlust and blue She headed off with him touring those prairies Traded the amber waves of grain for a modest skyline Never returning back to that farm boy Shattered his small town heart and left him harvesting the tears Of that farm boy singing a sad song...
8.
Prairie Fire 03:04
Above the trees tonight high in the sky there’s a fire burning bright Green flames dancing with the red we’ve got a long way to go Till we make it back home Prairie Fire Prairie Fire Burning desire till the rain falls on this land Did you see the things you wanted to see as you journey from your home Did you see the mountains high as the clouds did you see your river of gold Did you see your river of gold Now we’re heading off into the rising sun as it guides the highway home Pedals down to the floor somehow we’ll never know what we’re on this journey for We were on this journey for
9.
The first flight of the cackling crow The faster the falling the swifter the flow When you first spread your wings and search for the line Attempted murder doing no time The rooster is the farmer’s alarm Atop the rusty weather vane on the old run down barn But crow you're the wake up for those who sleep in And wish the barrel was loaded and aimed at your chin So if you feel the world's out to get you And you’re just trying to get along Hold up your head and be proud sing your song and sing it loud Just don’t do it on a Saturday morn The mourning dove she calls up the sun The great grey owl he calls up the moon The black-feathered succubus has the control Awakens demons and cuss words from the purest of souls Don't do it on a Saturday don’t do it on a Sunday don’t do it before nine AM I wish that on your first flight your wings they wouldn’t work right you’d spin into a nose dive I wish you didn’t survive it Please let me sleep past nine
10.
I’m draggin my heels but my feet are on the ground Walking for miles a day but nowhere to be found Like a shadow I’ve been searching for a light to guide the road ahead Lingering on all the words that dying fella said Brush the dust from off my boots it’s time to walk the line I built this aspiration somewhere in my mind Like a fish in a reservoir no rivers to the sea Circling past the same old shores in search of destiny I was born in a little big city these rivers are my veins Where they take me I’ll never know I’ll never feel the pain Cos I know that I’ll be back again I know I will return Everything I’ve seen along the way is what I’ve earned At night I pour myself a drink and think back to the times I thought about a better world than the one I left behind When I traded my queen I was hoping for an ace But I got dealt the joker and she robbed me of my place Broken shattered spirits of humble simple man Who thought he had his destiny mapped out within his hand With every winding river bend the torrent waters run He docked his boat upon the shore and headed to the sun

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released September 23, 2016

KEVIN ROY: Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Accordion, Harmonica, Organ Pedals
AMELIA PETERSON: Harmony Vocals
MATT FILOPOULOS: Lap Steel, Pedal Steel, Electric Bass
DANIEL BERTNICK: Percussion
TONY PIZZI: Electric Guitar
WILLIAM J. WESTERN: Pedal Steel
KARL RATCHINSKY: Electric Bass, Upright Bass
ALEX CAMPBELL: Piano, Organ
DANIEL PELOQUIN-HOPFNER: Banjo
MADELEINE ROGER: Additional Harmony Vocals
LOGAN MCKILLOP: Additional Harmony Vocals

All songs written by KEVIN ROY (SOCAN), 2016
Produced by LLOYD PETERSON & KEVIN ROY
Engineered by LLOYD PETERSON at PAINTBOX RECORDING (Winnipeg, MB.)
Mastered by JAMIE SITAR at OUTTA TOWN SOUND (Gonor, MB.)
Photography by CHRIS P. BAKON
Album layout by KEVIN ROY

We acknowledge the financial support of the Government of Canada through the Department of Canadian Heritage (Canada
Music Fund) and of Canada's Private Radio Broadcasters.

Produced with the participation of Manitoba Film & Music.

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Kevin Roy Winnipeg, Manitoba

Kevin Roy delivers poignant folk ballads, wry wit toe-tappers, and barn-burners with the right balance of aw-shucks honesty and unbridled enthusiasm.

With the band groove of Crazy Horse, and the harmonies of CSNY, Kevin Roy is classic Americana & Country through brand new speakers.
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