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Waiting on a Star

from What I'm Lookin' For by Dan Weber

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    "You know, looking back on it, the songs on ‘What I’m Lookin’ For’ aren’t just where I was ‘at’ in the past few years, but where I was headed as well. There’s a lot more of ‘me’ in these songs than there was in ‘Ash and Bone’. They say ‘courage comes in many forms’ but mostly it came from fans, friends and all the great folks I’ve met along the way who came to shows and shared a kind word or two. More than anything, that’s what keeps me going.

    This collection of songs is a ‘Family’ of sorts, including some shirt-tail cousins and loud uncles that came to the annual reunion mostly for the home cooking and free drinks. They told stories that you couldn’t help listening to and laughing at even though you secretly knew they weren’t 100% true. They’re a family of doers and dreamers; mothers and daughters; bankers, brothers, welders, Texans and truckers. They’re alcoholics, workaholics, Californians, Christians, cowboys and customer service agents. And they’re singers, seekers, rogues, rodeo queens, fathers, sons and mother-in-laws who like everything from Woody Guthrie to Whitney Houston.

    But in the end, they’ll always be part of the family and like the rest of us they’re either running ‘from’ something or ‘to’ something. Some of ‘em left the reunion early, some stayed longer than they probably should have, but all of them marched to the beat of whatever drummer they heard and headed in the direction they wanted to, or needed to go.

    When I left the party, I backtracked through downtown, along Main Street. I stopped in the hardware store, one of the quintessential small-town varieties that sells a little bit of everything, and picked up a paper bag of loose nails, a couple packages of AA batteries and a fifth of bourbon from the shelf behind the counter. I made small talk with the gal while she rang things up, mostly about the weather and things we couldn’t do anything about. As I was talking to her I somehow couldn’t escape the feeling, that for the first time in a long time, this was where I was supposed to be.

    After I paid, I walked out into the late afternoon sun, with a couple hours of daylight still left, and got in the truck and headed down the road. Guess I Ain’t Done Ramblin’ Yet after all…"

    ~ Dan
    Veterans Day, 2014

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about

One morning online I happened to see a video of a hearse carrying a very famous singer who’d died recently (and tragically—too young and too strung out). Ultimately everyone handles fame differently—some with grace while others never do quite adjust to it. It’s hard to say why, but that Tuesday, an icon got laid to rest while her fans stood under their umbrellas and sang her songs. In some ways, that feels to me like more than one can expect to accomplish in this lifetime. This is for her…

‘Thanks’ to Don Metz who gave me reason to believe in this song when I had more or less written it off. Don knows the old ‘Blue Highways’ better than anyone I know…

lyrics

Waiting on a Star
By Dan Weber © 2015 Highway142Music (ASCAP)

The room smelled like lilies, on Easter Sunday
But it was Tuesday, it was Tuesday all day
At Falvo and Sons Funeral Parlor
It was Tuesday, but it’s always that way

All the ladies wore black; the men wore suits
And ‘Old Spice’ to hide the booze
And though everyone tried, no one could fathom
The depths of what more, they could lose

Chorus:
‘Cause she was their own angel, with homemade wings
Who flew too close to the sun
Now they’re lined up on Main, for that long black wagon
Waiting for their star to come

A small town, a small town, ain’t it always that way
She started in church, singin’ His praise
One day a man, from L.A. came callin’
To take her so far away

So far she could hardly recognize
The face in the mirror, behind the lies
Aw, but the folks back home, saw through her disguise
A scared little girl, behind her eyes

The motorcade starts up, when the doors slam close
It starts raining, she’d like that I suppose
Inside the Limo it’s quiet, but outside they’re singing
Her songs that everyone knows

Repeat Chorus

And the air smelled like lilies, on Easter Sunday
But it was Tuesday, it was Tuesday all day
And it rained all the way, to the cemetery
But I think she’d have liked it that way

Chorus:
‘Cause she was God’s own angel, with homemade wings
Who flew too close to the sun
Now they’re lined up on Main, for that long black wagon
Just waiting for their star to come
Yeah they're singing her songs, underneath their umbrellas
Still waiting for their star to come

credits

from What I'm Lookin' For, track released March 21, 2015
Dan Weber: Lead Vocals and Acoustic Guitar
Jean-Pierre Garau: Piano
Arthur Parker: Upright Bass
Rob Stroup: Harmony Vocals

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Dan Weber Richardson, Texas

Dan Weber is an Award Winning songwriter who's been described as "reminiscent of early John Prine."

In 2019, Dan was the winner of the prestigious Woody Guthrie songwriting contest and in 2021 he was named a rare 4 time finalist in the legendary Kerrville ‘New Folk’ songwriting competition.

In 2022, he released 'The Way the River Goes', his best work yet. Dan currently lives near Dallas, Texas.
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