Touch and Go

from Stockton Ave by Dave Barrett

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lyrics

Standing somewhere all alone
Daydreaming hard before I go home
Try to find a little heaven in hell
By playin’ a game that I call touch and go

Thought I’d make it big with this guitar
But the songs I wrote they didn’t go far
Cuz I’m lazy is as lazy does
Putting of the work to play my touch and go

CHORUS
Touch and go
Touch and go
A game I played so I didn’t hurt no more
Never lived the life I could got
Running out the clock now playing touch and go

Was in love a couple times
Too afraid to pull the trigger when their love was to mine
Hurt them before they could hurt me
Cuz I was blind playing a game called touch and go

When it gets dark my guitar looks back
Plays some chords from my past
It forces me to look and see
What I burned by playing touch and go

Touch and go
Touch and go
A game I played so I didn’t hurt no more
Never lived the life I could got
Running out the clock playing touch and go

Bridge
I’ve used people since way back when
Tried to be more important than I am
Wonder how they’ll remember me
The gentleman,
the liar,
the romantic sleez

Is the most honest I ever wrote
Can’t think play this game no more about
They are ghost from my past
And the reason I play touch and go.

I hope you don’t think less of me
I’m coming clean about playin’ touch and go
Never lived the life I could a got
Running out the clock playin’ touch and go

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from Stockton Ave, released January 1, 2023
Dave Barrett - Vocals and Guitar
Justin LeBreck - Keyboards

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Dave Barrett Palatine, Illinois

Dave Barrett has been a singer songwriter in the Chicago area for the past 25 years. His previous releases where Kittybone in 1995 and Fate and Stitches in 2002.

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