Another Lonely Night

First things first: Porter is playing Second Stage on

Saturday, July 21st, 2012 at 3:00pm.  Come out and see us.

Stick around for more great local acts that day.  Friday too. 

© 2011 Fort Creek Songs

I specifically wrote this one for Porter.  I mean, what's a

Country & Western band without songs about broken hearts 

and divorce? It was loosely based on a friend of mine's 

experience.  Two things were pointed out to me when we tried 

to make something out of it:

1) The words "Another lonely night" are sung with the exact 

same notes/melody as Bruce Springsteen's "Dancing in the 

Dark" when the Boss sings "I get up in the evening." 

"I gettup in the eve-ning"

"Uh-nuther lonely nuh-ite"

It's exactly the same and it never even occurred to me 

(and I've played "Dancing..." live with "Rebbie's Rebels.) 

That's why it's important to get some outside ears to 

constructively critique my stuff.  I'm too close to it 

to see the wide-angled view.  Also, the first part of the 

bridge is very close to The Cure's "Just Like Heaven" 

And to come completely clean, I use two Neil Young lines 

from two different songs in this one.  See if you can 

figure out which ones.

and 2) It was sorta missing something and we couldn't 

figure out what it was. Admittedly we didn't try too hard -

It didn't make it past 2 jams.  I still like playing it 

acoustically in my living room so maybe I'll run it by the 

band again one day but Jay has a new one he wants to try 

and I've got about 5 new ones I wouldn't mind Porterizing. 

There's only so much time devoted to learning new tunes at 

rehearsal. See what you can do with it. 

Another Lonely Night 

June 11 '11
G               Am Bm
Another lonely night
D                       Em       Bm
Can't forget the good old days.
D                   Em  Bm      D
Can't forget about our old home.
 
Livin' hand to mouth
Facing life and what it brings.
          Em         C       G
It gets tough all by yourself.
 
           Em    Bm
  I got scared when the rooster
D
crowed.
                       Em           Bm
And you got scarce when things moved
      Am
too slow.
                 Em       Bm                  D
And it was rare to let your feelings go
               Em             Bm               G
And it was me who found you in the snow.
 
 
Another sleepless night
I don't feel enough to try.
I don't feel enough to set this right
 
Broken down life
Heading out to the bar
To sleep with another man's wife.
 
 
In between the days and nights
Head in hands in the twilight
All alone at the microphone
On that night we lost our home
 
Bridge
G D Am C
G D C Am
Gadd11
 
Another lonely night
Watching things fall apart
Watching life get covered up in dust.
 
Lost the will to fight
Settled in to this rut
Just thinking how I'm stuck.
 
 
I got scared when the rooster crowed.
And you got scarce when things moved too slow.
It was rare to let your feelings go.
And it was me who found you in the snow.