Name: Boy Goin Home
Duration: P00H03M35S
Description: Written in my home on the hill above the city skyline of Pittsburgh... a song of about transition and learning, going from failed love of someone else to love of self. In this way it is an opposite love song.

Boy Goin Home

from Out from Nowhere by Mark Browning

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Written in my home on the hill above the city skyline of Pittsburgh... a song of about transition and learning, going from failed love of someone else to love of self. In this way it is an opposite love song.

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Boy Going Home

When first you came knocking
To my door
Barefoot and smiling
How innocent we were
Love striking two hearts
To start a boy goin home

Cats in the window
In our house on the hill
From all appearances
All was going well
Except for a certain unpaid debt
Of a boy going home

Lights of the city
Burning busy and bright
Where the eyes of a stranger
Could seem so full of light
Until the dealer flicked the switch
On a boy going home.

Drawn to a fire
I fed from dusk to dawn
Little knowing that what I burned
Was the love I lived on.
Such is the darkness of the road sometimes
For a boy going home

Now I’m doing solitary
There’s not a soul around
It’s a funny prison though
All the walls are blown down
It takes some time for the world to return
To a boy going home

New moon rising
Eyes growing clear
The feeling that someone I know
Is standing so near
The reflection in the water shows
The boy that came home.

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from Out from Nowhere, released July 12, 2019
• Lead Vocals Mark Browning
• Acoustic Guitar Mark Browning
• Bass Mark Perna
• Hammond organ Bill Maruca
• Piano Bill Maruca
• Soprano Sax Eric Defade

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Mark Browning Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Born into a military family, I have traveled all my life. Must have gotten into my blood. Never cared much for routine. I started out in biology, collecting reptiles for zoos and museums, but then traveled. Pruned apple trees in NY, farmed wheat in WA, painted houses in Key West, drove truck in NYC, published articles in magazines, hiked the Amazon and Andes... writing songs the whole time. ... more

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