Red Box Car
By HoolieBrown on April 5, 2026 5:47 am
Alright so not technically a new song - I wrote this sitting in Juliet, GA outside of a winery there in 2005 or so, and I played it live 1 and only time that night. I always wanted to go back and record it but I never could get the feel right, life happened, I moved, and I had an old friend ask me about this song a few weeks ago and I had completely forgotten about it.
I scratched out the tracks on the M8, recorded the guitar and vocals into the M8 through an RME babyface, and a couple days later I had a solid start on a mix.
Percussion part is unorthodox, but I tried replacing it and nothing worked as well.
In the DAW I just rode the faders a bit, panned and put a decent rough master on it, but I'm digging the glue I was able to get on it considering all of the stuff bumping around in the low mids. Hope you enjoy.
Lyrics
I was on a freight train
Looking out the door
of a Red Box Car
Lonely man beside me
asks me for the time
after all this time
Why does it feel like I'm so far away
What makes tomorrow turn into todays
Who makes the world seem to stand on it's end, my friend...
My friend
Lookin' out the window
Staring through the glass
at my neighbor's yard
Hear the engine running
cutting down the grass
We've come so far
Why does it feel like I'm so far away
What makes tomorrows turn into todays
Who makes the world seem to stand on it's end, my friend...
My friend
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