Name: Things Are Better With You
Duration: P00H01M58S
Description: Things are better with you: a song I wrote about my wife, Lawan, though she probably doesn't know it. I wrote it in the style of one of my early (70s/80s) songs, quite unselfconsciously. I play 2 bass guitars, acoustic guitar, and sing. The excellent Rick Cuevas plays rhythm guitar and drums.

Things Are Better With You

from Modernism by Andrew Lawrence Jackson

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Things are better with you: a song I wrote about my wife, Lawan, though she probably doesn't know it. I wrote it in the style of one of my early (70s/80s) songs, quite unselfconsciously. I play 2 bass guitars, acoustic guitar, and sing. The excellent Rick Cuevas plays rhythm guitar and drums.

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Things Are Better With You
Lyrics by Andrew L. Jackson

There’s things I want to say that I don’t know how to say
There’s things I want to do that I don’t know how to do
Yet even though these words are only pointing the way
Somehow these these things are always better with you

When I started on my way I didn’t know where I would go
I got up the nerve to talk to you
I didn’t dare to think about some distant future day
I only knew that things were going better with you

Mmm- mmm… I only knew that things were better with you
Oh, oh… I only knew that things were better with you

Ah… here comes the drifting, drifting
I… can’t seem to focus, focus
I… am always dreaming, dreaming
You… put a hook in me and pulled me down to earth

There’s things that I need that I don’t know how to ask
Places I’ve been I had to fight my way through
Through all this I wasn’t a puppet on a string
I did my own thing and it was better with you

Oh, oh… I’m happy to report that things are better with you!

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from Modernism, released January 9, 2012
Andrew L. Jackson: Guitar, Bass, and Vocals
Rick Cuevas: Rhythm guitar and Drums

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Alternative singer-songwriter, recording artist, Zru Vogue co-founder, based in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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