Track #2 – Goodbye CT

Recorded -

Basic Track – April 6-9, 2013

Tambourine – July 28, 2013

Vocals – August 28 and September 6, 2013

Guitar solo – September 24, 2013

Backstory -

“Mystery Girl” may have been the very first original song that I recorded, way back in 2008, but what about the very first true song I managed to write? That would be 2006's “Bodyguard”. Due to the song's rather schmaltzy lyrics, It was never up for contention on Turn Back The Years. However, the music of the song, was too good to let go to waste. I just need a better lyrical topic than “Walking with someone back to their dorm”.

Flash forward to 2013, during a time period when many of my friends/acquaintances were leaving Connecticut, often for good, I was feeling rather glum. Out of this melancholy came a poem: “Nutmeg State Emigration Blues”. When combined with my original “Bodyguard” music, with a 1960's sunshine pop-inspired vocal arrangement, and with the new title of “Goodbye CT”, the song has gone on to become one of my most personal statements.

Lyrics -

Hey, where are you going? why are you moving away?

Heading west on a moving truck down the highway

Hey, why are you leaving? Isn't this the place you call home?

What will you find by taking the less traveled road?

Chorus: Please don't go away, don't leave me stranded and alone

You're moving out of the Nutmeg State and I wish I could come along.

Hey, how are you doing? Hope all is well with you

Having new adventures and doing whatever you want to do

Hey, please don't forget me, when you're a thousand miles away

I hope that you'll come back again someday!

(Chorus)

California, Colorado, everybody's leaving me!

(Verse 1)

Chorus 2x)

All music and lyrics are Copyright 2014 – Rob Weiss Music.