Uncle Tupelo

Wait Up

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Are you surprised it's me?
Hope I didn't wake anybody
Honey, please wait up for me
I miss you more than I need sleep

Guess I'll let you go
Even though I don't want to
Honey, please wait up for me
I need you, and I can't keep up this speed

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myeyesareopen On May 14, 2002

Moonshiner (Traditional cover)

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2002-05-14 09:13:21

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by PappyHab

15y ago

Simple song, I love Tweedy's strange vocal cadence and the banjo picking that fills in the gaps. Banjo kinda sounds like; either the sound of a guys feet moving as he he desparately hurrying to get home OR the sound of a clock ticking while he is trying to do that. Or both concurrently. Kinda like the music they would play in a Disney movie when a little mouse is scurrying across the floor in haste.

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