"Baby" genre: General Blues
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	A driving Blues about insecurity in a relationship. Has a "live" feel to it, and a Dm harp solo that provides an almost haunting enhancement to a song that has a fast enough pace that "haunting" would not normally be associated with it.
	MP3.com CD: Burn Down The Bridge - buy it! CD: Burn Down The Bridge   Label: MP 3 Credits: Lyrics and music composed by Bill McClarty, who also did the vocals. 5 string bass played by Billy Herb Bob, Sweet William on guitar, Wild Willy on drums and Herby Bob on keyboards. Recordings were done at Billy Joy's Digital Studios in Olympia Washington, who also did the engineering and mixing.
	Story Behind the Song This song started as a "groove" with a driving beat. The lyrics are not from any of my personal experiences, though I have known some people that are insecure enough that this might have happend to them. I thought I had finished the lyrics and was recording the song when the idea for the dying brother occurred to me as an interesting twist, and very appropriate the mental stupidity / anguish that can occur with such insecurity. All - in -all the song took a total of about 30 hours from putting pen to paper (or keyboard to screen) to mixing the master track. Like all my songs, until I have my own band to help with the recording, I consider it to be a work-in-progress. Lyrics Baby by Bill McClarty © 2003 all rights reserved Baby, where did you go last night, When you should have been with me in bed? You said you’d be up in just a little while, But you left the house instead. You must have waited till I fell asleep, Cuz I never heard a single sound. When I woke up and called your name, You weren’t anywhere around At first I thought I was dreaming, That a nightmare had come over me. But before long I knew it was meaning, That my nightmare had become a reality. That I didn’t want to see. I tried to find a reason, But I couldn’t even think of one. I saw no justification, Explaining what I thought you’d done. I was sure that sleep had left me, But when my head began to spin, It helped some when I closed my eyes, And I guess I fell asleep again. I tried to forget what had happened, When I woke up and found you there at my side. But I couldn’t shake the pain of the memory, No matter how hard I tried. I hurt too much inside I got out of bed and didn’t wake her, I couldn’t bear to hear her lies. And I didn’t want her to see the awful pain I knew I couldn’t disguise. I was ready to leave, and not come back, And not say a single thing. Just before I walked out the door, I picked up the phone as it started to ring I found out where my baby had been, At her dying brother’s side. I felt so bad because I felt good, To find out someone died. I couldn’t be more wrong if I tried, She never would have lied, There was nothing for her to hide, It was just my stupid pride, Thank God my baby’s still at my side

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