Ex-Pat Blues
Josh Rouse * Track #9 On The Embers Of Time
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Album The Embers Of Time
- #1Some Days I’m Golden All Night
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- #2Too Many Things On My Mind
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- #3New Young
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- #4You Walked Through The Door
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- #5Time
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- #6Pheasant Feather
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- #7Coat for a Pillow
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- #8JR Worried Blues
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- #9Ex-Pat Blues
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- #10Crystal Falls
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Ex-Pat Blues by Josh Rouse
Performed by
Josh RouseAbout
This song is about Josh Rouse’s status as an ‘ex-pat,’ or expatriate; someone who lives in a country other than the country of their citizenship.
He first left America to live in Spain in 2004, to be with his now-wife Paz Suay, and has lived there since 2007. After falling into a depression and que...
Ex-Pat Blues Lyrics
[Verse 1]
Holiday, I spent here too long here in this place
Hoping it'd soon, somehow it'd feel like home
I'm amazed, I told myself that I could stay
I gotta go, yes I'll be on my way
[Chorus]
Nothing changes, and still I'm stuck here
I want you
[Instrumental]
[Verse 2]
So, today, I'm in a hotel that's tucked away
Back in a cold, a cold November lonely night
Holiday, I spent here too long here in this place
I gotta go, yes I'll be on my way
[Chorus]
Nothing changes, I'm feeling lost, yeah
Too many faces, I'm feeling lost, yeah
Nothing changes, and still I'm stuck here