Songs:Lookin' South (103197)

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Contents 1 Trivia, story behind the song, etc. 2 Songwriter 3 History 4 Lyrics 5 Listener comments about "Lookin' South (103197)" 6 Tags

Trivia, story behind the song, etc.

Songwriter

Stephen Lomas

History

Things were happening, plans were (almost) afoot.... I knew I was going to leave the USA & return to Australia, but I didn't know just when. I figured I'd write a song about this change of direction, this new focus... I was turning my back on almost 30 years in California... I was "lookin' south!" But instead of that the project turned out to be just a song about women... some of it's true.

Lyrics

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Looking South © Stephen Lomas 2003

She said those things you want the most that's what you need the least

I followed her up the mountain & got lost among the pines

She left me in some hollow there, somewhere the sun don’t shine.

And me I didn't worry at all

I thought we could work it out

But Mary kept looking off to the east

While I was looking south

Kathleen was a working girl, all day eight hours straight

I’d meet her when the whistle blew down by the factory gate

Our nights they flowed like music, love was reckless & headstrong

She said you lack commitment I said I’d done nothing wrong.

Kathleen’s songs were all of struggle

Her voice was passionate, devout

She was looking for revolution

And I was just looking south.

I met Katy along the shore someplace that sailors go

I was looking for some answers & she looked like she might know.

I couldn’t help but love the way the wind it took her hair

And she’d wipe the salt spray from her face perhaps it was a tear

Then she went aboard a sailing ship

I saw her waving from the bow

She was lookin' for Barbados

I was just looking south

I met a girl from Canada in Queensland on a train

Three days & nights we traveled north but I forget her name

We’d sit up in the dining car & talk all through the night

Sometimes there was a crossing bell sometimes a distant light

Frost streaked across the window,

She was staring off in the darkness

And I was looking south

There’s so much that has happened since, I been married once or twice

Always found just what I wanted & I always paid the price

You never can leave it all behind each memory leaves a scar

They’ll find you out for better or worse no matter where you are

And still I never worry at all

It'd be no use no how

I might sometimes look behind me

But still, I’m lookin' south

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Lookin' South by Stephen Lomas SONG
on the album Sinbad Ranch Buy Stephen Lomas at CD-Baby Any album (including Sinbad Ranch)	Request this song: Lookin' South (Only logged in and authenticated users can make requests.) Overall rating: (3 votes) Your rating: You have to login to give your opinion about songs. Length: 4:50 Times played: 4 People hearing: 108 Times requested: 1 First played: May 4th, 2006 Last played: Feb 20th, 2007 Previously played: Jun 19th, 2006 Song ID#: 103197	Listener rankings: 4 stars=sparx ♦ Kelli 3 stars=CooleyBufo