STEPHEN LOMAS: Music

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I think this is maybe the closest I'll ever come to writing a love song.... or a song about cars.
Started out with the line about "Pico...". I was sitting outside the Unurban in Santa Monica waiting to start a gig when I looked "to the LA sky". Saw all those planes & got suddenly nostalgic for Australian stars & true deep country black night.

Blacktop
Stephen Lomas 2006

Out on the Blacktop
Full moon bright
Road like a ribbon
Straight ahead through the night.
And you drew close beside me
In the dashlight glow
Trees in the distance
Seemed to pass by real slow

And we’d ease through the small towns
And sometimes pull in
We’d catch our breath
Air smelt like gasoline
Then out of the station
Back into the night
Past rows of dark houses
With their windows shut tight

Down in the long grass
Way down low
The wind curled around us
Left nothin’ to show
There ain’t nothin’ but stars
In the sky above
We counted ‘em all
We counted on love.

(chorus) Stars shine only for dreamers
And dreams, never come true
It’s been so long, down the blacktop & gone
Yeah, I still love you too
Yeah I still love you too.

Now I’m out here on Pico
Look to the LA sky
There’s hardly a star
Just some planes flyin’ by.
I tune my guitar
And I start to play
Think of the words
Things that I’m gonna say

And I’ve got some love songs
And songs about booze
Those things you pick up
That you just can’t lose
There’s a song about driving
In the ebony night
In the high-beam crossfire
Sometimes we’d drive without lights