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Radical Face — Ghost Towns
Album: The Family Tree
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7.4

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Released: 2011
Length: 3:51
Plays (last 30 days): 1
I've got no need for open roads
'Cause all I own fits on my back
I see the world from rusted trains
And always know I won't be back

'Cause all my life is wrapped up in today
No past or future here
If I find my name's no good
I just fall out of line

But I miss you
But there's no comin' home
There's no comin' home
With a name like mine
I still think of you
But everyone knows
Yeah everyone knows
If you can, let it go

I seen more places than I can name
And over time they all start to look the same
But it ain't that truth we chase
No, it's the promise of a better place

But all this time, I been chasin' down a lie
And I know it for what it is
But it beats the alternatives
So I'll take the lie

I still miss you
There's no goin' home
There's no goin' home
With a name like mine
I still dream of you
But everyone knows
Yeah everyone knows
If you can, let it go
Comments (53)add comment
Hell! This is SO effing great!

The live cut on the betarecords channel on Youtube is fantastic!   Love the piano.

What a beautiful, simple song.  
 IvanoBosello wrote:

Some days ago, Deep Purple's bassist Roger Glover made me listen to this radio, he told me that it's the best radio on the web.
So I've started to listen to it and I have to say that the selection it's very accurate. Well done guys!
Hello from Venice-Italy
Ivano 


Roger that!
Just lovely 
beautiful, but the lyrics are heartbreaking. 
I think I hear Lindsey Buckingham's influence all over this one; the songwriting and production.  
this is one of my favorite <3
Merci from Paris, RP ! You rule ! America we love ... Allez RP !
I love the melody. Perfect song to listen when you wanna lay down and just chill and relax.
Correction to first chorus:

But there's no comin' home
Theme music from Motorcycle Diaries?
 FourFortyEight wrote:
My mother is lying in the hospital dying tonight.  This song hits home, even though I've heard it a zillion times.  

 
Huggs and sympathy.
My mother is lying in the hospital dying tonight.  This song hits home, even though I've heard it a zillion times.  
 jpdribbler wrote:

Ghost Towns is one of the standouts (though not my favorite - that would be "Mountains"), but also quite representative of the album, which I find really impressive and coherent. If you wanna make sure, the whole/most of the album is up on Youtube.

aspicer wrote:

Good stuff - makes me wonder how the rest of the album is - anyone know?

 

 
Cool - thanks for the heads up!
Good stuff indeed...but "The Mute" is better {#Music}
 IvanoBosello wrote:
Some days ago, Deep Purple's bassist Roger Glover made me listen to this radio, he told me that it's the best radio on the web.
So I've started to listen to it and I have to say that the selection it's very accurate. Well done guys!
Hello from Venice-Italy
Ivano 
 
Ciao Ivano. Benvenuto a RP {#Wave}
No, I like the accordion and handclaps!!  This is a nice song     {#Smile}
 Huwie wrote:



 
Can't argue with that.

Only had RP a week...loving it
Huw 
 IvanoBosello wrote:
Some days ago, Deep Purple's bassist Roger Glover made me listen to this radio, he told me that it's the best radio on the web.
So I've started to listen to it and I have to say that the selection it's very accurate. Well done guys!
Hello from Venice-Italy
Ivano 
 

Ben Copper is so grand... 
For the original version of this song please check the following link, better music and without the clapping !

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbu0CtohHUk

Evros
LOVE the piano part in this one
To the friends and brother I lost. I still miss you.
6 to 7
Quite likeable. I feel we need more handclaps in music. Maybe some fingersnaps too. Knucklecracks might be a step too far though. Accordion sucks though
Mmmm, very fine, thank you Bill/Radio Paradise.
The kind of song that'll cause everyone to go quiet and listen, without saying a word about it, usually around the end of an evening together just before you admit to yourself "it's time I ought to really go, now." 
 gesue wrote:
{#No}  f*** the hand clapping music 

 
Thanks for adding some class to the discussion.  
 gesue wrote:

f*** y**
{#No}  f*** the hand clapping music 

 


{#No}  f*** the hand clapping music 
Haunting, affecting music by this band.
I heard they (he) uses only vintage, period instruments; 19th century items, real hand claps.
Authentic is the thing.
 joko16 wrote:
Typical voice..
 
what's typical, gimme typical ?
Some days ago, Deep Purple's bassist Roger Glover made me listen to this radio, he told me that it's the best radio on the web.
So I've started to listen to it and I have to say that the selection it's very accurate. Well done guys!
Hello from Venice-Italy
Ivano 
{#Clap}  ..... enjoying this tune
This song is growing and growing on every listening!

Ghost Towns is one of the standouts (though not my favorite - that would be "Mountains"), but also quite representative of the album, which I find really impressive and coherent. If you wanna make sure, the whole/most of the album is up on Youtube.

aspicer wrote:

Good stuff - makes me wonder how the rest of the album is - anyone know?

 


 DJ_BellsEye wrote:
Thought this was michael stipe, maybe REM.  Nice.

 
Ditto, thought it was something I hadn't heard from REM - am liking it
Good stuff - makes me wonder how the rest of the album is - anyone know?
Not really. 

joko16 wrote:
Typical voice..
 


This song has the same melody with a greek song from 1996 called "Small Motherland". It was also sung by Marios Fragoulis but other greek singers as well. Here is the link to the original:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbu0CtohHUk

Music was written by composer George Andreou.

 
Wonder if that's live clapping or manufactured on a computer.    I want to think it's live.  I like it! 
Typical voice..
Handclaps are usually unwarranted in music, but they work OK here.
 Darn song is growing on me. I'll see that 3 and raise it to a 6
Can we keep this? Its nice. 
Thought this was michael stipe, maybe REM.  Nice.
Well, this is a bit lovely.
Is that a squeezebox I hear? Whatever it is, I likey what it lends to this ditty. At first listen, a 7.
..8 >> 9..smoove..
first time hearing this. i really like the vibe of the song.
The clapping is annoying.
First up, here.
Odd web site. He's been around a while. Worth another listen.