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Open Road Blues

from Open Road Blues by Tara Shupe and the Ponies

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The shame in feeling so much pain
When I hear your name
After all this time
Dissolves a world of empires gained
The loss is still the same
A child with your eyes
Am I lacking something pure
A sickness with no cure
A memory that is a lie
I sing the broken record blues
A memory so cruel
A hymn to fill the shrine


Come back my love
We have survived the worst of it
Come back my love
To open road and endless sky

The language to describe my sorrow
To give all my tomorrows
Is locked inside a mission vague and shifting
It's a promise held inside a feeling
It's a wound that's healing if only for today
Silence is a weapon you wield
Marks the tomb that you sealed
But I will dance with the dead
They tell secrets of the life we're missing
The love we kept from giving
Because we were afraid

Come back my love
We have survived the worst of it
Come back my love
To open road and endless sky

Don't need you to call it over
Punctuate it with a moral
Drifting on the endless tide
As long as it is wide
In the practice comes the being
I will stop retreating
There is bravery in shouting out your sins
The falling maybe it's the calling
How we find the meaning in the win

So come back my love
We have survived the worst of it
Come back my love
To open road and endless sky

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from Open Road Blues, track released April 17, 2020
Tara Shupe: Guitar, Vocals
Megan Michelle Nay: Violin, Vocals
Daron Shupe: Banjo
Matt Ligman: Bass
Bart Olson: Drums
Mixed/Mastered: Daniel Young
Recorded at Orchard Studio in North Salt Lake, UT

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Tara Shupe Salt Lake City, Utah

A lifetime immersed in bluegrass, old-time, and American roots music influences the multi-instrumental Tara Shupe in her thoughtful arrangements of old-standards and originals.

Starting first on mandolin at age 4 then taking up fiddle, guitar, and recently banjo throughout her extensive career,
Tara's first solo album features her strong instrumentation on achingly personal, yet timely songs.
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