More Than Lost
More Than Lost
So many miles back there behind me.
I got a few miles left, things I want to do.
Mountains left to climb, rivers left to cross
I thank the stars above, I can count on you.
Chorus:
Sometimes I feel like I’m a stranger
Sometimes I don’t know who I am
And when those times find me, you know that I can’t wait
To get back home to you, ‘till then I guess I’m damned.
Like the shadow of a fading dream
I was more than lost, nowhere so it seemed.
Left alone in emptiness, I hope I can be found
Get back on that two-lane road, home is what I need.
Chorus:
Bridge:
Travelling down that road tonight
Radio’s in tune.
Desert in the pale moonlight
Baby I need you.
More Than Lost – This song was written a few days before I recorded the demos for this album. Both Leslie and I really like this one, but then we always like the newest songs the most. It was originally written as more of a folk-type song, with a very Neil Young “hammer style” rhythm guitar part. You can hear that if you can pick it out, but Scott changed this to a straight-up country song. It’s a road song. The chorus is interesting to me because sometimes, to me, just for a short period of time the world seems tilted just slightly to one side, and I feel disoriented, like a stranger to myself. That’s what I tried to capture in those lyrics. I count on Leslie to always be here for me. Fred’s opening guitar riff is awesome. When he first played it I thought, Oh no, it's Sweet Home Alabama – but it’s really not even all that close. Ted Hockenbury plays pedal steel on this and one other song. We really needed to write more songs that need Ted to play on, he’s just a really great player.