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Until You Come Around

by Eric Harrison

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In the 80s - long before social media would turn us all into self-publicists - music snobs like me curated our personas to ensure that we’d be perceived as Serious Fans. I could go on for hours about seeing Let’s Active at City Gardens without letting on that the Alarm at Rutgers put on a much better show. I may have had a Bad Brains cassette in my tape deck to display my bona fides, but the Bangles mix tape in my trunk was much more cherished (as was a sealed and addressed fan letter to Susanna Hoffs, which I never sent because even in my teens I knew it would yield nothing but a restraining order).

At age 54 I can admit that I loved Boston - not just the city for what Bucky Dent did there on 10/2/78, but also the band because of the tuneful sonic grandeur of their first two albums.

Punks and critics derided Boston as “corporate rock” because it was slick and it emerged from a monolithic, moneyed monster called “the music industry,” which at the time was viewed by many as a threat to Real Art.

Not to me - I longed to write a song as great as “Hitchin’ A Ride.” So about 45 years after I first heard that song I stole its opening melody to write an homage to . . . R.E.M.?

We all associate specific periods of our lives with particular songs and albums. I had an emotionally rocky summer in the late 80s that I will forever associate with R.E.M. and the “angry jangle” of Peter Buck’s Rickenbacker.

This song goes there - I hope you like it!

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Woke up tired and thought of sleeping
Saw her face in a different light
Dawn's deceit was a promise creeping
To coffee cream and a new delight

The angry jangle of our last summer
Speaks to me when I hear your name

The poison medicine of your memory
Let nobody but me defame

Come back
Come back
Come back to me
And a new disaster

Come back
Come back
All alone so far away

And I'll be waiting patiently
I’ll be waiting
I’ll be waiting patiently
Until you come around

The Nostradamus of Paramus
Drinks his lunch from a paper box
Knows her name but he calls her "kitten"
He’ll never know what a smile unlocks

The battle lines and the constant craving
For so much more than we knew before
But there's no joy in a blue light bathing
A gilded room full of empty lore

Come back
Come back
Come back to me
And a new disaster

Come back
Come back
When there's nothing left to say

And I'll be waiting patiently
I’ll be waiting
I’ll be waiting patiently
Until you come around

Taking stock of the damage done
We’ll hold a candle to the sun
Weather a winter’s waning
To forget what we’ve become

Close your eyes and you’ll see the light
Hail a hallelujah then take flight

Come back
Come back
Come back to me
And a new disaster

Come back
Come back
When there’s nothing left to say

And I'll be waiting patiently
I’ll be waiting
I’ll be waiting patiently
Until you come around

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released October 22, 2022
Produced by Kevin Salem, who played all the instruments

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Eric Harrison Fanwood, New Jersey

Eric Harrison is a New Jersey-based singer-songwriter whose fifth album, "Gratitude," was released in November 2020. In 2021 he released the five-song EP "Good Intentions” and in 2022 he released “Dear John," a five-song EP of originals inspired by the late great John Prine.

In 2023 Eric released the double album “No Defenses." In 2024 he'll release a new single each month, followed by another LP ... more

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