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Halfway Down The Street

from Jake Whiskin by Jake Whiskin

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Again this is a song I wrestled with for a while, I made lots of stripped down demos that were never quite right. A friend said he thought it sounded like an acoustic version of the full song; so I just took it to a totally different place where the drums were driving the track - which led to the middle section of me channeling my inner Springsteen and trying to shred on the guitar. It’s about my ex, we had a long distance relationship where I was in Leeds and she was in New York City, that kind of intensified the whole thing where I guess it felt a bit too much at the time and I gave in. This is me trying to make peace with things that have passed and let go of wondering what could’ve been.

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Rush home to fix up right
Head out the hand I bite
Ain’t getting any younger
Neither is the night

Dip calls the whole way home
My saviours bought and sold
Know there is something deeper
I don’t dare to know

I’m running away
It’s leading me home
I get scared of the unknown
Tried to be alone

and maybe you’re right
It’s never enough
You know I will call you up
I’m sure that you’ll be …

Walking out the door
Halfway down the street
Drinking at the bars where we used to meet
Always seem so far, far away from me
Guess we’re disconnected, bittersweet

Lost face and lost myself
Ran outta money at the front desk hotel
Your patience wearing thin
Your eyes all set on me

God loves the sinner, but just hates the sin
Give me a minute with the state I’m living in
Is there a part of this that you’re gonna miss?

Maybe you’re right
It’s never enough
You know I will call you up
I’m sure that you’ll be …

Walking out the door
Halfway down the street
Drinking at the bars where we used to meet
Always seem so far, far away from me
Guess we’re disconnected bittersweet

And we turn into some memory
A nostalgia, like a deity
That I lift up when I’m feeling down

Got a hex now, a bad energy
It just flares up when I fall asleep
And you turn up
Hanging round my dreams

I’m running away
It’s leading me home
I get scared of the unknown
Tried to be alone

And maybe you’re right
It’s never enough
You know I will call you up
I’m sure that you’ll be walking out the door

credits

from Jake Whiskin, released November 4, 2022
Written: Jake Whiskin
Produced: Lee Smith and Rob Slater
Mixed: Lee Smith
Mastered: Robin Schmidt

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Jake Whiskin Leeds, UK

Jake Whiskin is a songwriter from Leeds, UK with reflective and vulnerable lyrics backlit by atmospheric new americana.

From life in Wortley council houses, young love & black metal tee’s to discovering 70’s songwriters via Armley charity shops, Whiskin’s recollections and explorations are an essential document of adolescence in Yorkshire in the late 90’s and 00’s.
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