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Humphrey ~ McKeown
On My Way Home
Heather Humphrey: Lead & Background Vocals, Flute, Tin Whistle, Harmonica, Piano, Percussion
Tom McKeown: Lead & Background Vocals, Guitar, Mandolin, Irish Bouzouki, 5 & 6 String Banjo, Mandola, Piano, Keyboards, Harmonica, Bass, Drums, Percussion
Heather & Tom would like to thank God & our families: Heather’s husband Dennis & children Liz, AJ, Evan, Aeden; Tom’s wife Donna & children Trevor, Robyn, for
supporting our musical dream. We would also like thank Drey Bohannan, Cliff Zweibruck, Jim Livas, Edwin Rivera, Igor Dimovski, Phil Miller, Dave Paff, Joel Theisfeldt,
Mary Stratton, Bonnie Campbell, Deborah King, Trevor McKeown and all our friends and family who have encouraged us on this adventure.
01 Oh, What Kind of Love (3:45)
10 It’s Murder (4:06)
Lyrics, Melody & Music: Tom McKeown • Harmonica: Phil
Miller
Lyrics, Melody & Music: Tom McKeown
11 Night With No Light (3:47)
02 Chandler’s Crossing (4:38)
Lyrics & Melody: Heather Humphrey • Music & Additional
Lyrics: Tom McKeown
Lyrics & Melody: Heather Humphrey • Music: Tom McKeown
• Additional Vocals & Didgeridoo: Drey Bohannan
12 Fourth Cup of Coffee (3:15)
03 Page One (3:46)
Lyrics & Melody: Heather Humphrey • Music: Tom McKeown
Lyrics & Melody: Heather Humphrey • Music: Tom McKeown
13 You’ll Never Worry About That (4:16)
04 Thirty Years On (4:36)
Lyrics, Melody & Music: Tom McKeown • Drums: Jim Livas
• Additional Vocals: Drey Bohannan
05 A Misfit (4:05)
Lyrics & Melody: Heather Humphrey • Music: Tom McKeown
Lyrics & Melody: Heather Humphrey • Music & Additional
Lyrics: Tom McKeown • Additional Vocals: Drey Bohannan
14 On My Way Home (4:52)
Lyrics & Melody: Heather Humphrey • Music: Tom McKeown
• Additional Vocals: Drey Bohannan
06 Everything’s Broken (3:47)
Lyrics & Melody: Heather Humphrey • Music: Tom McKeown
07 Down So Long (3:56)
Lyrics, Melody & Music: Tom McKeown • Additional Vocals:
Drey Bohannan
08 I Wish It For You (3:47)
Lyrics & Melody: Heather Humphrey • Music: Tom McKeown
• Trumpet: Joel Theisfeldt • Tuba: Trevor McKeown • Trombone: Dave Paff • Clarinet: Mary Stratton & Bonnie Campbell
For all the dreamers who dare to dream of what could
be and long for home
Produced, Engineered & Mixed by: Tom McKeown &
Heather Humphrey
Mastered by: John Scrip at Massive Mastering
Photos: Deborah King
Recorded at HM Studio
©2013 HM-Music, BMI all rights reserved
09 Did He? (3:28)
Lyrics, Melody & Music: Tom McKeown • Additional Lyrics:
Heather Humphrey
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Oh, What Kind of Love?
Chandler’s Crossing
I see my old man, working, working on the tracks
A dollar a day, hardly seems enough to break his back
But he’s a proud man, aint nobody gonna pay his way
And he’ll take care of his own, until his dying day
He would talk with me till the sunset on my porch
She listened to my dreams, like water they would pour
When we get older, we’ll remember our promise and say
Oh, what kind of love?
Oh, what kind of love?
Makes a man do that
My mother scrubs floors, invisible, she has no name
She don’t give up, even though each day is just the same
Working in a house she could never own
Plantin’ seeds, but never reapin’ what she’s sown
Oh, what kind of love?
Oh, what kind of love?
Makes a woman do that
My brother enlisted, packed his things, went off to fight the
war
Our family died, on the day a bullet through him tore
Somebody’s got to die to set men free
I guess that’s just the way it will always be
Oh, what kind of love? Oh, what kind of love?
Oh, what kind of love? Makes a man do that
I see my own life
Would I even have that kind of love?
Meet me at Chandler’s Crossing and I’ll wait for you there
Our time has gone but I still hold this one dream
That you’d be there waiting for me
Dreams he followed but his dreams didn’t belong in mine
She made her escape, now I can’t wait by killing time
When we get older, we’ll remember our promise and say
My roots grow deep in this town
I hear a voice calling me “turn around”
On a bridge where two rivers meet
Will the promise we made ever be?
Years go by and I came back in search of an old friend
I’ve waited years for her, now my broken heart she will
mend
We have this one day to remember our promise and say
Page One
30 Years On
Do you believe in stories that have happy endings
Magical fairy tales where the prince gets the girl and love falls from the
skies
I said take care of you for me
On the day that you said our love’s not to be
In the morning you left me standin alone
I’ve been prayin for someday when you would come home
I’ve written a story with happy ending and starts now
With you and me and the worlds a better place cuz were hand in hand
So let’s start on page one
Is there still room in your life for a story like mine?
I believe you’re the one
Start on page one with me
You’re chasin a girl who doesn’t see that you exist
She’ll smile in your eyes while dreamin of someone else’s kiss
I’ll make a magical potion so you will see
What you’ve be missin is found in me
Please turn around, oh don’t walk past
cuz I know our love will last forever and ever oh
I’ve waited and watched and now you’re ready to give your heart
To storybook Jane she’s waitin right outside your door
How old is too old for a wish
Tell me there’s somethin you might have missed
Like my arms to hold you
Like the love I gave you
But 30 years on I’m still dreamin alone
You were that girl in the red summer dress
I promised forever till love met it’s test
But life wasn’t the storybook that you had planned
and then one day I noticed that you’d stopped holding my hand
Stop, look around and you’ll know I’m right here
To gather your pieces and to wipe every tear
Oh, Oh, Oh
Thirty years on when I saw you there
Gray had replaced all the gold in your hair
Maybe I should’ve let you keep runnin away
But I’ve been lost without you
So please come home to stay
A Misfit
Everything’s Broken But You
Down So Long
I’m a misfit, underneath it all
I can’t tell you when I”ll begin to fall
But you’ll know it, why your eyes embrace
A misfit
Chorus
Were you born that way?
Were you made my way?
As a misfit
Breathing in and breathing out
I open my eyes and look around
Everything’s broken, but you
I can’t remember yesterday
When the world was at my feet
Was it a slip or was it just my fate
the day it came crashing down on me
I’m a danger, read between the lines
Stay where you are and keep a watch on the stranger
And you better beware of my anger
Look don’t you agree?
I’m a danger
I’ve travelled the world to find answers and more of me
Image in temples and visions in deepest seas
I’ve come back home with a different view
Everything’s broken
Everything’s broken but you
I’ve been down so long that I can’t find my way up
Tossed about on a raging sea
If I cry for help from the depths of where I am
Will someone come and rescue me; rescue me
I’m a dreamer so I’ll have to learn,
But till then I’ll have to burn in my own way
Do what I do, on my own say
Even I have to pay
I’m a dreamer
Face in a crowd turns away
Time goes by but just not today
Everything’s broken
Everything’s broken but you
I heard that joy comes in the morning
But I awoke to this gray day
I’ve have to spend all of the hope I’m storing
Nothing’s left and I can see no other way
All of my life I’ve been longing for my one home
Forever searching for where I might belong
Can I hope in what I don’t see?
I want this life to be mine today
Without me in the way
Were you born that way, were you made my way
Were you born that way, were you made my way
As a misfit
Walking here and walking there
so many lives full of disrepair
Everything’s broken
Everything’s broken but you
I’m a vagabond from a foreign land
Still my fingers fit within your hand
Everything’s broken
Everything’s broken but you
Everything’s broken
Everything’s broken but you
I played on chance and took a risk
I pulled some strings and lost my way
I had it all until life threw a twist
Now I’m drowning in regrets of yesterday
I Wish It For You
Did He?
It’s Murder
Have you ever hugged a pillow and wished that it was me?
Have you ever danced the tango underneath a willow tree?
Have you ever been this in love before? And want more?
Did he? Did he?
Tell you that he loves you?
Did he? Did he?
Tell you that he’d always be true?
Drove into town in an old Cadillac
A husband in tow and two kids in the back
Had to check in with the local police
An insult-ophile who'd just been released
Throwing pennies, in a fountain, make a wish upon a star
Writing love notes, writing love poems, leavin them upon your
car
Did you laugh and say you must be joking?
Did you say that it’s a lie?
Love’s the farthest thing from your mind
Did you make him want to cry?
He was reaching out for your heart
While you were playing with his
Came from a long line of ruthless word slingers
Tried hard to change, but old habits they linger
She can remember old Pappy would say
"An insult a day, keeps my boredom away"
Happy, I wish you happy
Oh, funny, I wish you laughter
And oh, oh, oh, I wish you love
Maybe even with me
Did he? Did he?
Leave his world for your life?
Did he? Did he?
Give himself as your sacrifice?
Sipping java, watching lips move, all night in Sam’s Café
Waking happy, I checked my heart strings, I love you more
today
He’s got nothing in the end
You took all his friends
He can’t go home
and he can’t stay with you alone
Oh sweet skies that are blue
This love it is true
I wish it for you
Did he? Did he?
Scare you just a little?
Did he? Did he?
Tremble in a love that’s futile?
Back-stabbin' sar – casm
Who can tame the tongue?
In a word, its murder
Cannot tame the tongue
Never was fond of the neighbors she met
Her gossip and spite, she'd live to regret
They threw her a party; those ladies next door
But before it was over they lay on the floor
The verdict came down from a judge the next day
A serial bad mouther they took her away
So take a tip from old Smith and Wesson
Put a lock on your tongue and learn from this lesson
Night With No Light
4th Cup of Coffee
Is what was lost ever found?
Can you revive those who drown?
On the night with no light
Will you come to be with me?
You shook up my heart tonight
you made me see blinding light
You took me out of my blues
And then you know what I had to do
Love made me do it too
I had to drink my fourth cup of coffee
Oh in the night, I will be with you
Oh in the night with no light
When you’re sick and all alone
And no one’s comin to take you home
On your night with no light
I will come to be with you
You once stood alone and braved the wind and the sea
You once stood alone and were a lot like me
You once stood alone in the night
Is life a dream or despair
Do doubts confuse and leave you bare
Song of light are overdue
That when I’ll come to be with you
I drank my fourth cup of coffee
when I heard you say you love me
and now I’m wide awake in a livin’ dream
I’ve never been in love before
it’s you I, I adore
I drank my fourth cup of coffee
Your brought down my fever now
gave me cool water now
You spoke words of heaven to me
And then you know what I had to do
Love made me do it too
I had to drink my fourth cup of coffee
Cappucino, mocha, double latte, espresso…
Cappucino, mocha, double latte
I see through the haze my love
I'm hearin angels above
They brought me new wings to fly
So then you know what I had to do
Love made me do it too
I had to drink my fourth cup of coffee
You’ll Never Worry About That
On My Way Home
Your imagination’s running wild
As you sit with your head in your hands and you cry
Bills are over-due and our new baby too
Day in day out I’m here by myself
I’m not gonna grow where love isn’t felt
No more, no more I can’t be alone
Please get ready, get ready
I’m on my way home
You’re anticipating stories not real
Moneys running out, oh I know how you feel
The porch swing is broken, and your fears have awoken
But I see it differently; come hear what I believe
It’s not time to worry ‘bout that
Just look at our life, we love what we have
Trust that each morning is new
And my arms are reaching for you
You’ll never worry
You’ll never worry ‘bout that
Everything changes while years go by
But my heart remains steady, here by your side
You lie here awake; reliving today
Take each day as it comes
We’ll finish what we’ve begun
One day when we’re old and grey
We’ll teach our children to say
Big city lights disappear fast
Memories fade as the sky rushes past
No more wandering this life on my own
Please get ready, get ready
I’m on my way home
I’m on my way home
I’m on my way home,
No more roads to follow
I’m on my way home
I’m on my way home
I’ll walk from the bus stop not wanting more
than to feel your arms around me when I open the door
I’ll lean into the love that I know
Please get ready, get ready
I’m on my way home
I left you without a plan
Oh, I took my life as far as I can
But I need you, I see you
I want you for who you really are
The Making of “On My Way Home”
So there we were in early 2012, having a “business” dinner at a favorite Mexican restaurant with Tom, Donna, Heather, Dennis and Robyn; trying to decide which songs should
go on the first CD. It was apparent right from the beginning that we had enough solid
songs for two full CDs. What to do? A double CD was thought of and tossed out. What
artist puts out a double album for their first release? (hint) Nobody; so we decided not to
be the first. Right then, we knew we were going to put out two CDs within a year. What we
didn’t plan on was a huge creative surge that happened soon after “When The World Was
Young” (WTWWY) was released.
Instead of simply putting out the remaining songs from WTWWY, we went back to the beginning and wrote/rewrote all the songs that you now hear on “On My Way Home”
(OMWH). Over the last year, we have developed a passion for more earthy, folk-driven
songs and arrangements. With each new instrument purchase, came a flood of new ideas
and new timbres for our music. This time around, we were very much taken in with the
rootsy sounds of mandolin, mandola, bouzouki and banjo. Not your typical rock instruments by any means, but the ones that compelled us to write these songs.
The recording sessions for OMWH began in early January 2013 and we finally completed
the mixing in mid-March. As our mastering engineer says, “A mix is never done, it is simply stopped”. Those words were never truer than with us. While we were recording and
mixing, we would hear or play something a little different than the time before and follow
that path till it turned into something completely different. Big songs became smaller. Tiny
ideas became cornerstones. Things got turned inside out and upside down. All of this experimenting and improvising slowly took form and defined our direction.
“On My Way Home” is a CD about love, sacrifice, heart-ache and ultimately… home.
“Home” can mean many things to many different people. Home can be a place or a person
or even just a sense of belonging. Each of these songs was truly a labor of love. We are so
glad to be able to share this little bit of us with you.
Tom & Heather
~April 2013
01 Oh, What Kind of Love
02 Chandler’s Crossing
03 Page One
04 Thirty Years On
05 A Misfit
06 Everything’s Broken
07 Down So Long
08 I Wish It For You
09 Did He?
10 It’s Murder
11 Night With No Light
12 Fourth Cup Of Coffee
13
You’ll Never Worry About That
14 On My Way Home
Produced by Tom McKeown & Heather Humphrey
live, learn, create... repeat
©2013 HM-Music