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Off the Wagon (single edit)

from Baby You Win by Cliff Westfall

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lyrics

Off the Wagon lyrics
©Cliff Westfall 2018

VERSE 1
When we were drinking and a-drugging we were kissing and a-hugging
Our friends all got together they said “Man, I think they’re bugging’”
So they staged an intervention at which we forgot to mention
That our kind of love required that we weren’t there to pay attention
I got the cure for all of our ills, we go together just like booze and pills
So I say, let’s fall off the wagon once again

VERSE 2
Well rehabilitation, it kind of killed the conversation
Everything that we said just seemed to need an explanation
And when “Baby what you holding?” turned to fussing and a-scolding
Well, it didn’t take too long before we found new arms to roll in
Well, no more Jacks and no more Jills, we go together just like booze and pills
So baby, let’s fall off the wagon once again

BRIDGE 1
With your bloodshot eyes and a bleach blond hairdo
You know rock bottom sure looked good on you babe
Well now I’m clean and sober but I’ve got a broken heart
And that wasn’t how I meant to make a brand new start
Love is the drug that really kills, you know we go together baby just like booze and pills
So I say let’s fall off the wagon once again

SOLO
PRE-BRIDGE
You found a sir, I found a mam, you know neither one of them was worth a damn
So I say let’s fall off the wagon once again

BRIDGE 2
And with your bloodshot eyes and that bleach blond hairdo
You know rock bottom sure looked good on you babe
Well now I’m clean and sober but I’ve got a broken heart
That wasn’t how I meant to make a brand new start
Now I ain’t gonna ask you baby where the hell you’ve been
You just come on back and help me make some homemade sin
And I’ll say let’s fall off the wagon once again
Yeah, I say let’s fall off the wagon once again

credits

from Baby You Win, released July 13, 2018
The "single edit" version (shorter outro) of Track 5 from my forthcoming album, "Baby You Win," this version also can be found on the vinyl release (the CD has the longer original version). Produced by Bryce Goggin (Pavement, the Ramones, Antony and the Johnsons, Evan Dando) at Trout Recording in Brooklyn, NY, and renowned New York guitarist and songwriter Graham Norwood.

The album features the following musicians:

Lead vocals, acoustic guitar: Cliff Westfall
Electric guitar: Scott Metzger (Shooter Jennings, Wolf!, Phil Lesh, Joe Russo's Almost Dead)
Electric and acoustic guitar, harmony vocals: Graham Norwood
Pedal steel: Dan Iead (Norah Jones, Cass McCombs, Valerie June)
Bass: Jeremy Chatzky (Ronnie Spector, Bruce Springsteen, Laura Cantrell)
Drums: David Christian (Brian Burton aka Danger Mouse, Mary Timony's Helium, Sam Cohen, Hospitality, Sweet Cream)
Keyboards: Charlie Giordano (Bruce Springsteen)

Plus guest harmonies from Matthew Horn (A Don Piper Situation) on "Sweet Tooth," "Hanging On," and "The Man I Used to Be," and Barbara Endes (Girls on Grass) on "A Lie If You Must"...

All tracks mastered by Alex McCollough of True East Mastering, Nashville, TN

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Cliff Westfall New York, New York

New York-based, Kentucky-bred country songwriter Cliff Westfall writes songs about heartache, loss, addiction – you know, funny songs. Or he can dive into a sentimental weeper.

He delivers them all with the wit that, for Westfall, is central to country music. His songs are bitingly acerbic, dependent on the twisty puns, bittersweet humor, and turns of phrase that used to define country music. ... more

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