Lost In Your Universe

from Soul In Exile 2: Jersey Shore Baby by The Hesh Inc.

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This brings the disc into “Lost In Your Universe,” a balladeering tune in the vein of Warren Zevon with a little John Mellencamp’s “Small Town” vibe complete with outstanding guitar work courtesy of Barry Siegfried. And true to the theme Heshy sings grimly, “It doesn’t make sense to stay here, but somehow I still do. Lost in this New Jersey universe, everything may have faded, but I still love you.”

~John Pfeiffer, The Aquarian Weekly

lyrics

Baby you used to be so original
I couldn’t hold a candle to your homegrown ideas
Always direct never subliminal
You showed me your heart and said it all comes from in here
I was so inspired by the things you used to do
You knew just what you wanted and you weren’t afraid to kick some butts
Those are the things I loved about you
You flew in the face of everything when I didn’t have the guts
And in the sweet summer nights under the carnival lights
I knew I was so in love with you
You showed me there was more than all I saw around me
A whole other universe
An island of music in a stormy sea of noise
I wanted to get lost in your universe
Washed away in the sounds of your chords and your voice

Then came the day I was severed from you girl
I tried so hard to reach you but you went on without a clue
But when you sang your song it was heard round the world
Well babe you didn’t know it but I was so proud of you
I was stuck to the place I was sitting in
I knew I’d come back to you but I didn’t know when
While defending the place I was living in
I wouldn’t stop talking about how I knew you “back then”
I held out my hopes like holding onto the ropes
A lifeline in a sea of uncertainty
It pulled me through the confusion that surrounded me
I knew I’d come back to your universe
A world of harmony where I could find my peace
I needed to get lost in your universe
Where raging chaos could finally cease

I went alone unguarded down the old mine shaft
But all the gold has so long ago been taken
And all I find is precast parts when I go looking for fine craft
That faith that saved me for so long has been shaken
There was a time I’d drop everything I’d be doing
Just to catch your every whispered word
But now I don’t stop anymore I keep going
It seems all your heroes are unsung and unheard
I see you coming up the street but you can’t see me
We walk right past each other without a word
You seem to regret the day you ever found me
But I’m lost in your universe
Living for a world that no longer exists
Lost in my New Jersey universe
I hung on for so long and now I come back to this
Lost in your universe
It doesn’t make sense to stay here but somehow I still do
Lost in this New Jersey universe
Everything may have faded but I still love you


© 2007 The Hesh Inc.

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from Soul In Exile 2: Jersey Shore Baby, released June 1, 2007
Hesh Meister—piano, organ, vocal
Steve Lopresto—bass
Rick Oricchio—drums
Barry Siegfried—guitars

Recorded/engineered by John Noll and Paul Ritchie at Retromedia Sound, Red Bank, New Jersey

Mixed and mastered by Steve Goodie at Punch Sound, Santa Monica, California

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