Name: I Used to Know
Channel: Bruce Irving
Description: "I Used to Know" is a song by Bruce Irving. Confessional alt-country track inspired by an ACID loops CD of steel guitar riffs I bought. From my eclectic-but-mostly-pop CD "Jardin du Luxembourg, available at www.cdbaby.com/bruceirving.

I Used to Know

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Confessional alt-country track inspired by an ACID loops CD of steel guitar riffs I bought. From my eclectic-but-mostly-pop CD "Jardin du Luxembourg, available at www.cdbaby.com/bruceirving.

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Bruce Irving

Bruce Irving is a Massachusetts based singer songwriter who writes acoustic and keyboard based pop and country songs in a variety of styles.

Bruce Irving is an eclectic pop singer/songwriter in Central Massachusetts. His music combines influences of 60's and 70's pop with a willingness to incorporate anything that works with the songs, from jazz to power pop to alt country.

Song Info

Genre

Country • Alternative Country

Charts

#8,616 today Peak #216

#1,700 in subgenre Peak #32

Author

Bruce Irving

Rights

2003 by Bruce Irving

Uploaded

November 28, 2003

Track Files

MP3

MP3 4.2 MB • 128 kbps • 0:00

Story behind the song

I bought a CD of ACIDized loops of steel guitar riffs, and some of these riffs triggered a melody idea that turned into this song, with just acoustic guitar and a little synth bass and strings added.  It reminds me of some of Neil Young's songs from the "Gold Rush" period (which I really love).

Lyrics

I USED TO KNOW

I used to know what I wanted
I used to know myself
I used to think someday I'd be somebody
But that was somebody else

You know it's strange, one day you turn around
Next day you turn back
And the place you swore you'd never be
Is right where you're at

CHORUS
Everything I used to know is wrong
And everyone I used to know is gone
And you took the longest time leaving
And I can't say why 
But I used to know
	
I had a chip on my shoulder
More like a boulder I guess
My dad tried to knock me from under that chip
But he failed just like all the rest

You know it's love everybody wants
There must be something to that
And I swore that I wanted it too
But never gave any back

CHORUS

You saw the good in me I couldn't see
You saw the future that I couldn't be
You were my lifeline and my everything else
But you couldn't give me a heart 
  that you needed yourself

Words and Music by Bruce Irving (c) 2003

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