Story Behind The Song
When you are actually blessed with the ability and support to be able to perform your music on a regular basis, it can be quite a journey. Touring is exciting, but it also has it lonely moments on top of very exciting moments where audiences are enjoying a show and where you get to meet new people. Still, it has its reflective moments, in that way is mirrors our daily lives. This song was inspired by these aspects and moments in a touring musician who begins to look for more from the process. He misses having a soul mate and dreams of having one and a family of children. In the end of the song, his dream comes true in a way he never imagined.....
Song Description
This is a resurrected song about the days out on the touring road going from town-to-town and city-to-city and performing and writing songs.
If you've ever been on the road (I was for 16 years).....this will bring back memories.
| Song Length |
5:41 |
Genre |
Folk - Alternative, Folk - Alternative |
| Tempo |
Medium Slow (91 - 110) |
Lead Vocal |
Duet Male |
| Mood |
Serene |
Subject |
Searching for Love, Show Biz |
| Similar Artists |
Kenny Loggins, Kenny Rankin |
Language |
English |
| Era |
2000 and later |
| |
Lyrics
"Backstage"
Words and Music by Chet Nichols
Copyright 1978/2014 by Chet Nichols/Magic Garage Music (ASCAP)
Please contact:
http://www.chetnicholsmusic.com
chetnichols@aol.com :: ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
VERSE 1
There goes another traveling man
Out in LA, to play another one-night stand
It's hard to leave all the stars in the hills
Who are freezing their hearts out with hundred dollar bills
There's an open microphone
At a club down the street
With his old guitar wearing new strings
He sits and waits to be seen
Adrift in the clouds, aloft in his dreams
CHORUS
Dreaming of love, dreaming it backstage
Looking for love, seeking it backstage
Singing of love, singing it backstage
VERSE 2
City stories, highways and farms
And visions of a family with children wrapped up in his arms
He's got broken teeth and a golden heart
And twenty years of songs taped to his guitar
He wears his songs like a uniform
And travels the 2-lane highways thru the sun and the storms
Asleep in his van, aloft in his dreams
CHORUS
He's dreaming of love, dreaming it backstage
Looking for love, seeking it backstage
Singing of love, singing it backstage
BRIDGE
Then one night out in Kansas City
He heard an angel's silhouette
She was singing of magical moments
When two hearts share a sweet duet
CHORUS
Now, they're singing of love, out on the big stage
They found their true love, out on the big stage
They're sharing their love, out on the big stage