Shamrock, TX

I wrote this song after a 3am hotel stop in Shamrock, TX a long time ago. A friend and I were on our way to Santa Fe, NM and we just couldn’t make it any farther down the road.

We pulled up to the empty parking lot of a chain hotel to find a young woman having a smoke outside. She followed us in and check us into our room. My only memory of that was her asking where we were from. One of us said, “Indiana”. She replied, “Oh yeah, Indiana? What state is that in?”

The song has nothing to do with that other than it created a mystery to me about what the hell was going in in Shamrock.

A year or so later my wife and I went to Santa Fe together. I was in the midst of recording my record “Lovers and Other Amateurs”. I recorded most of that record in hotels, parking lots, and BnBs. This was recorded on the porch of a BnB in Santa Fe. You can hear the traffic on I-25 in the distance.

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xoxox

Brick

Shamrock, TX

i wanted to write to tell you that

our trip was held up at the texas border

we were crossing over

quietly and hoping to make to amarillo by morning

when suddenly everything stopped

i was thinking right then

that i needed to tell you so i hope you know i

was thinking ‘bout you

i was thinking baby

i was thinking maybe

honey

it/we could have been worse.

nothing ever happened we just stopped

but a smell hung heavy for a few hours

and i’m hungry and i’m lonely

and i’m looking for you all around me

the good news is we’ll be moving on

and i bet we make amarillo by dark

a curious turn of events i know

but you needed to know

that once i started thinking about you

i couldn't stop

it helps me thinking about that

you're out on the porch drinking a beer or a glass

of wine

by the time you read this i'll be doing the same thing

albeit

alone

just know nothing ever happened and we stopped

just short of shamrock

and i know that sounds like a joke

but it was really nothing

i’m hungry and i’m lonely

and i’m looking for you all around me