Jason Michael Carroll Songs - Hurry Home, Where I'm From, Alyssa Lies, I Can Sleep When I'm Dead, Livin' Our Love Song (Paperback)

Commentary (music and lyrics not included). Chapters: Hurry Home, Where I'm From, Alyssa Lies, I Can Sleep When I'm Dead, Livin' Our Love Song. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 23. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: "Hurry Home" is the title of a song written by Zane Williams, and first recorded by him on a 2005 album of the same name. Country music singer Jason Michael Carroll later recorded it on his 2009 album Growing Up Is Getting Old, releasing it as that album's second single in June 2009. The song is his fifth Top 40 hit on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. "Hurry Home" is a mid-tempo country ballad mostly accompanied by acoustic guitar, with piano and electric guitar flourishes. Its lyrics describe a father who is very worried about his daughter, who ran away from home. In the first verse, the father records on his answering machine the following to tell her that he misses her: It doesn't matter what you've done, I still love youIt doesn't matter where you've been, you can still come homeAnd honey, if it's you, we've got a lot of making up to doI can't hug you on the phone, so hurry homeIn the second verse, the father receives a call from "an old friend," who had just heard about his missing daughter. The friend told the father that if he saw his daughter, he would tell her to "hurry home." In the third verse, many days have flown by since the father has called his daughter, and in the song's bridge, the daughter has been abandoned by "her so-called friends" outside a bar in New York City, so she decides to call her father to tell him that she has decided to come home. Zane Williams, who wrote the song, first recorded it in 2005. His rendition won him a $20,000 prize at the John Lennon Songwriting Contest. Matt Bjorke of Roughstock gave a positive review, saying that he...http: //booksllc.net/?id=24111537