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Wishing You Were Here

by Tai Shan

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Tai Shan is a singer-songwriter who’s hard to pin down to a single musical genre – her stories want to expand out of a folk or rock constraint in order to pull in soulful elements and a tap-tapping of jazz flecks. It’s a rounded sound. ‘Wishing You Were Here‘ comes from her new album ‘Travelling Show‘ which will be released on April 3rd.

‘Wishing You Were Here‘ is a love song, which sits somewhere between breakup and “why won’t that damn man just come home?“, although Shan knows the reasons well enough: “I know you’ve got you own path to take” but freely admits “I keep wishing you were here“. Its key phrase is “The only reason we do anything is out of love or out of fear” as Tai Shan explains “a few months after my husband and I were married, we hit an impasse. I found out that my husband deceived and lied to me. It was a devastating and very dark time. I couldn’t understand how he could betray my trust and why he would lie to me. At the time, a friend sat me down and told me, “The only reason we do anything is out of love or out of fear.” I clung to that statement and soon found out how much pressure and fear my husband was under. During those dark days, I sat down and wrote this song. It was a way to process the pain. I am still with my husband 3 years later and we have a baby girl. We are learning to repair our broken trust and be honest with one another. We are not perfect but love is a process, and I love my husband. You have to work for every relationship you value and I have learned its okay to fail so you can find what will work for both of you. ”

All of the songs on ‘Traveling Show‘ came out of the travelling Tai Shan and her husband Austin Garrison – who contributes background vocals, beatbox, and trumpet to the album – did in 2017 and 2018 while touring. The 13-foot trailer that’s pictured on the album’s cover is the very one they drove across the crisscrossing roads of the United States, Mexico and Canada during those two years. The songs on Traveling Show are about, among other things, the tension between change and stability, simultaneously striving and being at rest.

lyrics

Wishing you were here
G am. Em
Listen for your footsteps in the hall
G
But its quiet
G. Am. Em
Listen for your key in the lock
G. Am Em/// Em/D
But I hear silence
__________________________________________________________________
C. A/C#
Listen for your voice saying hello
G/B. Cmin/E. D/F#
Looking for a sign that your coming home

___________________________________________________________________
G. D. Em
only one reason we do anything
C. G D
Is out of love or out of fear
G D Em
I know you have your own path to take
C G. D
I keep wishing you were here
G D C
I keep wishing you were here

______________________________________________________________________
Are you raising Cain to drowning sin
I sit and wonder
The questions wall the darkness in
And feel the thunder
___________
C. A/C#
Listen for your voice saying hello my darling
G/B. Cmin/E. D/F#
Looking for a sign that your coming home again
________________________________________________________________________

G. D. Em
only one reason we do anything
C. G D
Is out of love or out of fear
G D Em
I know you have your own path to take
C G. D
I keep wishing you were here
G D C
I keep wishing you were here

Verse chords

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C
When two lovers fight
A/C#
No body wins
G/B
And your stuck feeling foolish
Cm/E
With your head in your hands

C/E. Dmin/F. C/G. Cmin
Wondering how you ever lived before this

____________________________________________________________________

G. D. Em
only one reason we do anything
C. G D
Is out of love or out of fear
G D Em
I know you have your own path to take
C G. D
I keep wishing you were here
G D C
I keep wishing you were here

G D C
I keep wishing you were here

G D C
I keep wishing you were here

credits

released March 13, 2020
Recorded at Jack Straw Studios and Red Bar Studios in Seattle Wa
Joey Walbaum on Keys
Devin Bews on Drums
Marina Christopher on Bass
Produced by Mark Blasco

www.TaiShanMusic.com

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Tai Shan Seattle, Washington

Tai Shan is an Americana songwriter whose music has been featured in Billboard Magazine, American Songwriter, Americana UK, and on NPR. Based in Nashville, her songwriting focuses on positive messages. Tai Shan and her husband Austin, have toured the United States and Canada and performed for venues such as the Bluebird and Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. ... more

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