DESCRIPTION:
"If I Only Knew the Words" - Track 2 from the new album "Going Somewhere" by Scott Albert Johnson

PREORDER NOW:
bandcamp (CD or digital download - get title track now): http://www.scottalbertjohnson.com/goingsomewhere
iTunes (full album digitally delivered 6.9.2015): https://itunes.apple.com/…/album/going-somewhere/id989644112

LYRICS:
I don't understand this situation
I don’t know the way that I should feel
Can't seem to find the inspiration
Can't find a single thing that's real

I’m talking about a negotiation
A meeting on a bridge that we can’t see
But I can’t stop this cruel reverberation
From filling up the space between you and me

If I only knew the words
If I only knew the song
I would sing it from the mountains
We'd be dancing all night long
If my voice could speak these thoughts
In a way that you could hear
You would feel the way that I do
And our love would reappear

I want to reminisce about tomorrow
Initiate a plan for yesterday
Take a great leap forward to evaluate each sorrow
So we could maybe choose a better way

But you don't want to know the plans I'm making
You know that things must be the way they’ll be
And all these remedies that I'm mistaking
For something that will bring you back to me

If I only knew the words
If I only knew the song
I would scream it to the heavens
With a voice that’s proud and strong
If my soul could speak the truth
And if only you could hear
You would know my heart for certain
And the way would be so clear

And this song goes on forever
And these dreams haunt me night and day
And I see you looking at me, and I don’t know what to say
Why does it have to be that way?

Ten years and I've still got the same affliction
I’ve started and I’ve stopped one thousand times
The metaphors don’t rise above the fiction
The melodies won’t match up with the rhymes

And every breath serves to remind me
Of all the times I've tried to write this song
And now that you have come here to find me
I pray this time that it won’t come out wrong

If I only knew the words
If I only knew the song
I would sing it from the mountains
We'd be dancing all night long
If I only knew the words
If I only knew the song
We would sing it together
And we’d be dancing...

CREDITS:
from Going Somewhere, releases 09 June 2015
SAJ: lead and backing vocals, harmonica
Chalmers Davis: synthesizers
Cody Smith: guitar
Raphael Semmes: bass guitar
Steve Cook: drums
Holley Peel: backing vocals

Engineered by Tim Cotton and Ted Gainey at Windy Ridge Studios.
Mixed and mastered by Randy Everett, with additional mixing and co-production by Cody Smith.