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You Weren't Looking Back

from Near the Middle of Nowhere by Jake Gray

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A song about changing relationships

lyrics

| G#m/D# F#m/C# E |

G#m/D# F#m/C# E
When I was seventeen I thought I had the world
E
Right by its ass
G#m/D# F#m/C#
Too damn smart for my own good, I had all the answers
E
But not much class
C#m A
Then there came a time when the world saw fit
F#5 C#5
To knock me down
C#m
I always thought that you’d be there
A B5
And then I saw, you weren’t around

G#m/D# F#m/C#
And you were not looking
G#m/D# F#m/C#
You were not looking
G#m/D# F#m/C# E
You weren’t looking back

| G#m/D# F#m/C# E |

G#m/D# F#m/C# E
Then I turned another page and I grew up
E
Tried to make a plan
G#m/D# F#m/C#
Funny how things all work out and others don’t
E
It’s all in God’s hands

C#m A
But now and then I think about that time
F#5 C#5
When you let me down
C#m
I always thought that you’d be there
A B5
And then I saw, you weren’t around

G#m/D# F#m/C#
And you were not looking
G#m/D# F#m/C#
You were not looking
G#m/D# F#m/C# E
You weren’t looking back

| G#m/D# F#m/C# E | x2

C#m A
But now and then I think about that time
F#5 C#5
When you let me down
C#m
I always thought that you’d be there
A B5
And then I saw, you weren’t around

G#m/D# F#m/C#
And you were not looking
G#m/D# F#m/C#
You were not looking
G#m/D# F#m/C# E
You weren’t looking back

| G#m/D# F#m/C# E |

I grew up but you moved and you weren’t, weren’t looking back
The world keeps spinning round and round but you weren’t, you weren’t looking back
I grew up but you moved and you weren’t, weren’t looking back
The world keeps spinning round and round…

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from Near the Middle of Nowhere, released October 11, 2020
Shout out to Justin Derrico (Pink, The Voice) - our conversation about the use of open chords really influenced the direction of this song.

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Jake Gray Knoxville, Tennessee

Singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist.

Telling stories via song. I use a variety of styles influenced by some of the great musical storytellers.

There is another "Jerry Gray" that apparently has had some success with big band music. I am not him so... My family calls me Jake. Now you can too.
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