Dave UptonTightrope Pop

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Vocal: Keith Stares. Instruments/backing vox: Dave Upton. C1978, C2023 Upton. All rights reserved

About a friend who went off the rails. Originally written in 1978. Re-recorded 2023

Tightrope Well you sure enough been a good friend of mine But you got a lot of weird ideas I’ve a feelin’ inside that if you don’t change now Pretty soon you’ll disappear It’s an awful long way back to L.A.C. It’s even further back to Indian Queens It’s a mighty long road that you’ve walked this far When you’re thinkin’ where you might have been You’re walkin’ on a tightrope Over a high road Slippin’ down sideways To the ground Watch you don’t get choked On the things you smoke Watch you don’t let go of that line You’re walkin’ into Kansas over highway nine On a bridge that’s hangin’ by a string If you don’t watch out for those smokies’ lights You’re gonna find out what it feels like to swing You’re commin’ on strong for some good advice But I’ll tell you now you’ll get none from me ‘cos I’m still out on this dried-up lake Between the devil & the deep blue sea x

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