Humphrey ~ McKeown

On My Way Home

Heather Humphrey: Lead & Background Vocals, Flute, Tin Whistle, Harmonica, Piano, Percussion

Tom McKeown: Lead & Background Vocals, Guitar, Mandolin, Irish Bouzouki, 5 & 6 String Banjo, Mandola, Piano, Keyboards, Harmonica, Bass, Drums, Percussion

Heather & Tom would like to thank God & our families: Heather’s husband Dennis & children Liz, AJ, Evan, Aeden; Tom’s wife Donna & children Trevor, Robyn, forsupporting our musical dream. We would also like thank Drey Bohannan, Cliff Zweibruck, Jim Livas, Edwin Rivera, Igor Dimovski, Phil Miller, Dave Paff, Joel Theisfeldt,Mary Stratton, Bonnie Campbell, Deborah King, Trevor McKeown and all our friends and family who have encouraged us on this adventure.

01 Oh, What Kind of Love (3:45)Lyrics, Melody & Music: Tom McKeown • Harmonica: PhilMiller

02 Chandler’s Crossing (4:38)Lyrics & Melody: Heather Humphrey • Music & AdditionalLyrics: Tom McKeown

03 Page One (3:46)Lyrics & Melody: Heather Humphrey • Music: Tom McKeown

04 Thirty Years On (4:36)Lyrics, Melody & Music: Tom McKeown • Drums: Jim Livas• Additional Vocals: Drey Bohannan

05 A Misfit (4:05)Lyrics & Melody: Heather Humphrey • Music: Tom McKeown

06 Everything’s Broken (3:47)Lyrics & Melody: Heather Humphrey • Music: Tom McKeown

07 Down So Long (3:56)Lyrics, Melody & Music: Tom McKeown • Additional Vocals:Drey Bohannan

08 I Wish It For You (3:47)Lyrics & Melody: Heather Humphrey • Music: Tom McKeown• Trumpet: Joel Theisfeldt • Tuba: Trevor McKeown • Trom-bone: Dave Paff • Clarinet: Mary Stratton & Bonnie Campbell

09 Did He? (3:28)Lyrics, Melody & Music: Tom McKeown • Additional Lyrics:Heather Humphrey

10 It’s Murder (4:06)Lyrics, Melody & Music: Tom McKeown

11 Night With No Light (3:47)Lyrics & Melody: Heather Humphrey • Music: Tom McKeown• Additional Vocals & Didgeridoo: Drey Bohannan

12 Fourth Cup of Coffee (3:15)Lyrics & Melody: Heather Humphrey • Music: Tom McKeown

13 You’ll Never Worry About That (4:16)Lyrics & Melody: Heather Humphrey • Music & AdditionalLyrics: Tom McKeown • Additional Vocals: Drey Bohannan

14 On My Way Home (4:52)Lyrics & Melody: Heather Humphrey • Music: Tom McKeown• Additional Vocals: Drey Bohannan

For all the dreamers who dare to dream of what couldbe and long for home

Produced, Engineered & Mixed by: Tom McKeown &Heather HumphreyMastered by: John Scrip at Massive MasteringPhotos: Deborah KingRecorded at HM Studio©2013 HM-Music, BMI all rights reserved

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Oh, What Kind of Love?

I see my old man, working, working on the tracksA dollar a day, hardly seems enough to break his backBut he’s a proud man, aint nobody gonna pay his wayAnd he’ll take care of his own, until his dying day

Oh, what kind of love? Oh, what kind of love? Makes a man do that

My mother scrubs floors, invisible, she has no nameShe don’t give up, even though each day is just the sameWorking in a house she could never ownPlantin’ seeds, but never reapin’ what she’s sown

Oh, what kind of love? Oh, what kind of love? Makes a woman do that

My brother enlisted, packed his things, went off to fight thewarOur family died, on the day a bullet through him toreSomebody’s got to die to set men freeI guess that’s just the way it will always be

Oh, what kind of love? Oh, what kind of love?Oh, what kind of love? Makes a man do that

I see my own lifeWould I even have that kind of love?

Chandler’s Crossing

He would talk with me till the sunset on my porchShe listened to my dreams, like water they would pourWhen we get older, we’ll remember our promise and say

Meet me at Chandler’s Crossing and I’ll wait for you thereOur time has gone but I still hold this one dreamThat you’d be there waiting for me

Dreams he followed but his dreams didn’t belong in mineShe made her escape, now I can’t wait by killing timeWhen we get older, we’ll remember our promise and say

My roots grow deep in this townI hear a voice calling me “turn around”On a bridge where two rivers meetWill the promise we made ever be?

Years go by and I came back in search of an old friendI’ve waited years for her, now my broken heart she willmendWe have this one day to remember our promise and say

Page One

Do you believe in stories that have happy endingsMagical fairy tales where the prince gets the girl and love falls from theskies

I’ve written a story with happy ending and starts nowWith you and me and the worlds a better place cuz were hand in hand

So let’s start on page oneIs there still room in your life for a story like mine? I believe you’re the oneStart on page one with me

You’re chasin a girl who doesn’t see that you existShe’ll smile in your eyes while dreamin of someone else’s kiss

I’ll make a magical potion so you will seeWhat you’ve be missin is found in mePlease turn around, oh don’t walk pastcuz I know our love will last forever and ever oh

I’ve waited and watched and now you’re ready to give your heartTo storybook Jane she’s waitin right outside your door

30 Years On

I said take care of you for meOn the day that you said our love’s not to be In the morning you left me standin aloneI’ve been prayin for someday when you would come home

How old is too old for a wish Tell me there’s somethin you might have missed Like my arms to hold you Like the love I gave you But 30 years on I’m still dreamin alone

You were that girl in the red summer dress I promised forever till love met it’s testBut life wasn’t the storybook that you had plannedand then one day I noticed that you’d stopped holding my hand

Stop, look around and you’ll know I’m right hereTo gather your pieces and to wipe every tear Oh, Oh, Oh

Thirty years on when I saw you there Gray had replaced all the gold in your hairMaybe I should’ve let you keep runnin away But I’ve been lost without you So please come home to stay

A Misfit

I’m a misfit, underneath it allI can’t tell you when I”ll begin to fallBut you’ll know it, why your eyes embraceA misfit ChorusWere you born that way? Were you made my way? As a misfit

I’m a danger, read between the lines Stay where you are and keep a watch on the stranger And you better beware of my angerLook don’t you agree? I’m a danger

I’m a dreamer so I’ll have to learn, But till then I’ll have to burn in my own wayDo what I do, on my own sayEven I have to payI’m a dreamer

All of my life I’ve been longing for my one homeForever searching for where I might belong Can I hope in what I don’t see? I want this life to be mine today Without me in the way

Were you born that way, were you made my wayWere you born that way, were you made my wayAs a misfit

Everything’s Broken But You

Breathing in and breathing outI open my eyes and look aroundEverything’s broken, but you

Walking here and walking thereso many lives full of disrepairEverything’s brokenEverything’s broken but you

I’ve travelled the world to find answers and more of meImage in temples and visions in deepest seasI’ve come back home with a different viewEverything’s brokenEverything’s broken but you

Face in a crowd turns awayTime goes by but just not todayEverything’s brokenEverything’s broken but you

I’m a vagabond from a foreign landStill my fingers fit within your hand

Everything’s brokenEverything’s broken but youEverything’s brokenEverything’s broken but you

Down So Long

I can’t remember yesterdayWhen the world was at my feetWas it a slip or was it just my fatethe day it came crashing down on me

I played on chance and took a riskI pulled some strings and lost my wayI had it all until life threw a twistNow I’m drowning in regrets of yesterday

I’ve been down so long that I can’t find my way upTossed about on a raging seaIf I cry for help from the depths of where I amWill someone come and rescue me; rescue me

I heard that joy comes in the morningBut I awoke to this gray dayI’ve have to spend all of the hope I’m storingNothing’s left and I can see no other way

I Wish It For You

Have you ever hugged a pillow and wished that it was me?Have you ever danced the tango underneath a willow tree?Have you ever been this in love before? And want more?

Oh sweet skies that are blue This love it is trueI wish it for you

Throwing pennies, in a fountain, make a wish upon a starWriting love notes, writing love poems, leavin them upon yourcar

Happy, I wish you happyOh, funny, I wish you laughterAnd oh, oh, oh, I wish you love Maybe even with me

Sipping java, watching lips move, all night in Sam’s CaféWaking happy, I checked my heart strings, I love you moretoday

Did He?

Did he? Did he? Tell you that he loves you? Did he? Did he? Tell you that he’d always be true?

Did you laugh and say you must be joking? Did you say that it’s a lie? Love’s the farthest thing from your mind Did you make him want to cry? He was reaching out for your heartWhile you were playing with his

Did he? Did he? Leave his world for your life? Did he? Did he? Give himself as your sacrifice?

He’s got nothing in the end You took all his friends He can’t go home and he can’t stay with you alone

Did he? Did he? Scare you just a little? Did he? Did he? Tremble in a love that’s futile?

It’s Murder

Drove into town in an old CadillacA husband in tow and two kids in the backHad to check in with the local policeAn insult-ophile who'd just been released

Came from a long line of ruthless word slingersTried hard to change, but old habits they lingerShe can remember old Pappy would say"An insult a day, keeps my boredom away"

Back-stabbin' sar – casmWho can tame the tongue?In a word, its murderCannot tame the tongue

Never was fond of the neighbors she metHer gossip and spite, she'd live to regretThey threw her a party; those ladies next doorBut before it was over they lay on the floor

The verdict came down from a judge the next dayA serial bad mouther they took her awaySo take a tip from old Smith and WessonPut a lock on your tongue and learn from this lesson

Night With No Light

Is what was lost ever found? Can you revive those who drown? On the night with no light Will you come to be with me?

Oh in the night, I will be with you Oh in the night with no light

When you’re sick and all alone And no one’s comin to take you home On your night with no light I will come to be with you

You once stood alone and braved the wind and the seaYou once stood alone and were a lot like me You once stood alone in the night

Is life a dream or despair Do doubts confuse and leave you bare Song of light are overdue That when I’ll come to be with you

4th Cup of Coffee

You shook up my heart tonightyou made me see blinding lightYou took me out of my bluesAnd then you know what I had to doLove made me do it tooI had to drink my fourth cup of coffee

I drank my fourth cup of coffeewhen I heard you say you love meand now I’m wide awake in a livin’ dreamI’ve never been in love beforeit’s you I, I adoreI drank my fourth cup of coffee

Your brought down my fever now gave me cool water nowYou spoke words of heaven to meAnd then you know what I had to doLove made me do it tooI had to drink my fourth cup of coffee

Cappucino, mocha, double latte, espresso…Cappucino, mocha, double latte

I see through the haze my loveI'm hearin angels aboveThey brought me new wings to flySo then you know what I had to doLove made me do it tooI had to drink my fourth cup of coffee

You’ll Never Worry About That

Your imagination’s running wildAs you sit with your head in your hands and you cryBills are over-due and our new baby too

You’re anticipating stories not realMoneys running out, oh I know how you feelThe porch swing is broken, and your fears have awokenBut I see it differently; come hear what I believe

It’s not time to worry ‘bout thatJust look at our life, we love what we haveTrust that each morning is newAnd my arms are reaching for youYou’ll never worryYou’ll never worry ‘bout that

Everything changes while years go byBut my heart remains steady, here by your sideYou lie here awake; reliving today

Take each day as it comesWe’ll finish what we’ve begunOne day when we’re old and greyWe’ll teach our children to say

On My Way Home

Day in day out I’m here by myselfI’m not gonna grow where love isn’t feltNo more, no more I can’t be alone Please get ready, get readyI’m on my way home

Big city lights disappear fast Memories fade as the sky rushes past No more wandering this life on my own Please get ready, get readyI’m on my way home I’m on my way home

I’m on my way home, No more roads to followI’m on my way homeI’m on my way home

I’ll walk from the bus stop not wanting morethan to feel your arms around me when I open the doorI’ll lean into the love that I knowPlease get ready, get readyI’m on my way home

I left you without a planOh, I took my life as far as I can But I need you, I see youI want you for who you really are

The Making of “On My Way Home”

So there we were in early 2012, having a “business” dinner at a favorite Mexican restau-rant with Tom, Donna, Heather, Dennis and Robyn; trying to decide which songs shouldgo on the first CD. It was apparent right from the beginning that we had enough solidsongs for two full CDs. What to do? A double CD was thought of and tossed out. Whatartist puts out a double album for their first release? (hint) Nobody; so we decided not tobe the first. Right then, we knew we were going to put out two CDs within a year. What wedidn’t plan on was a huge creative surge that happened soon after “When The World WasYoung” (WTWWY) was released.

Instead of simply putting out the remaining songs from WTWWY, we went back to the be-ginning and wrote/rewrote all the songs that you now hear on “On My Way Home”(OMWH). Over the last year, we have developed a passion for more earthy, folk-drivensongs and arrangements. With each new instrument purchase, came a flood of new ideasand new timbres for our music. This time around, we were very much taken in with therootsy sounds of mandolin, mandola, bouzouki and banjo. Not your typical rock instru-ments by any means, but the ones that compelled us to write these songs.

The recording sessions for OMWH began in early January 2013 and we finally completedthe mixing in mid-March. As our mastering engineer says, “A mix is never done, it is sim-ply stopped”. Those words were never truer than with us. While we were recording andmixing, we would hear or play something a little different than the time before and followthat path till it turned into something completely different. Big songs became smaller. Tinyideas became cornerstones. Things got turned inside out and upside down. All of this ex-perimenting and improvising slowly took form and defined our direction.

“On My Way Home” is a CD about love, sacrifice, heart-ache and ultimately… home.“Home” can mean many things to many different people. Home can be a place or a personor even just a sense of belonging. Each of these songs was truly a labor of love. We are soglad to be able to share this little bit of us with you.

Tom & Heather ~April 2013

01 Oh, What Kind of Love02 Chandler’s Crossing

03 Page One04 Thirty Years On

05 A Misfit06 Everything’s Broken

07 Down So Long08 I Wish It For You

09 Did He?10 It’s Murder

11 Night With No Light12 Fourth Cup Of Coffee

13 You’ll Never Worry About That14 On My Way Home

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Produced by Tom McKeown & Heather Humphrey