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How Could I Know

by Evan Johnson

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1.
Keeping it out now Keeping it in Let it all begin Thinking about Thinking it through Well it's just me and you And I don't know if I'd call this love It's something I'm not so very sure of So I don't know if I'll call it at all Try to be good now Try to be cruel Just don't act the fool Pictures of you Pictures of me Could they really be And I don't know if I'd call this love It's something I'm not so very sure of So I don't know if I'll call it at all Well we live our lives Live in the world It's a beautiful thing Boy meets a girl Think about possibility And try to live hide balance find reality Sure that it's right now Sure that it's wrong Put it all in a song Feel the trust and feel the pain Let it happen again And I don't know if I'd call this love Just something I'm not so very sure of So I don't know if I'll call it I don't know if I'll call it I don't know if I'll call it at all
2.
This can't be the morning 'cause I was holding you in the night Did I miss a warning? Is there something wrong with my sight? How could I know to beg you please don't go? How could I know? Telephone ringing but it's only 3 a.m. The news that it's bringing Better get down here as fast as you can How could I know to beg you please don't go? How could I know? Say it once so I know that you hear me Say it once so I know that you're here Faith, freedom, distance, and time A far-off horizon, yes Distance and time How could I know to beg you please don't go? How could I know?
3.
Well it's sidewalks, freeways Anything to take me back to where I know she'll take me back again Small talk, entryways Buttons, blouses, everything Turn around Let it all begin And I say Jo Jo take me down I watch us sin, I understand And it's one, two, three, four Tells me everything I need to know Jo Jo take me down I watch us slide into an ordinary day False gods find out just how easy we believe them Smart boy, you don't understand Seeing red undercover Several days of summer weather Let 'em know Let 'em know you're the man And I say Jo Jo take me down I watch us sin, I understand And it's one, two, three, four Tells me everything I need to know Jo Jo take me down I watch us slide into an ordinary day Three words that are whispered Now you know it's finally coming Once more and then you let it go Turn around, look around just how easy you believed her Smart boy, you don't understand And I say Jo Jo take me down I watch us sin, I understand And it's one, two, three, four Tells me everything I need to know Jo Jo take me down I watch us slide into an ordinary day
4.
Tonight 02:37
Hold me close We've been too long apart Hold me close and feel the beat of my heart Hold me close like it's all gonna start tonight Tell me things that have never been told Tell me the things that I already know And tell me that you love me Cause I'd like to be told, tonight I don't want to believe in fairy tales I never, ever see them come true There's other things babe that we can make It starts right here with me with you Lay me down, baby, take me there All the different things that we can make bare Tickle of your finger, tickle of your hair, tonight Let's play those games that only two can play Say all those things that only two can say Then say them again but in a different way, tonight I don't want to believe in fairy tales I never, ever see them come true There's other things babe that we can make It starts right here with me with you So tell me those things that have never been told Tell me the things that I already know And tell me that you love me 'cause I'd like to be told, tonight yeah, tonight
5.
Bobby 00:38
Got so hungry last night that I finally cooked up Bobby Yes I sliced him up fine and I doused him in wine Then I baked him up right yes I put him in the oven Goodnight, Bobby, Goodnight
6.
You fall down and everything is quiet for a while I follow you down to the ground again We get up Check for damage decide to move on Recognize that place again 'Cause what we're trying to build takes Moments, Days, and Ages Trying to read the book Not just turn pages Trying to find the stillness in this turning world This turning world All in a row Easy come means easy go Recognize that place again You know what they say Don't you know the words that they say Recognize that phrase again 'Cause what we're trying to build takes Moments, Days, and Ages Trying to read the book Not just turn pages Trying to find the stillness in this turning world This turning world Guess that I know I could stay or I could go Recognize that place again I know what you say Don't you know I love what you say? Recognize your face again 'Cause what we're trying to build takes Moments, Days, and Ages Trying to read the book Not just turn pages Trying to find the stillness in this turning world This turning world What we're trying to build takes Moments, Days, and Ages Trying to read the book and not just turn the pages Trying to find the stillness in this turning world This turning world
7.
Hush hush darling Some things change some stay the same Can I even try to explain? Wheels turn round and round If you jump up, you come back down Hush hush darling Some things start and some things end Can I even try to defend? Wheels turn round and round If you jump up, you come back down I can't believe you'd even try to get me to believe just one more lie when all I do is cry and cry You're hurting me And I don't care how deep you sound You talking about wheels spinning round round round People jumping up and down You're hurting me Your words mean nothing Not to me And your words are empty You don't see You don't see You don't see Well hush hush darlin' Nothing's good if something's bad Did we ever know just what we had? Oh, what we had
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9.
Aphrodite breathes Everyone responds But I'm a million miles away Turn it around What were you just thinking of? Tomorrow takes these things away Aphrodite breathes a million miles away Too many times she walks out the door so certain that she is alone I let her go She can find her way So many things to say and I don't really mind Aphrodite breathes a million miles away Aphrodite breathes a million miles away
10.
You might find what you need in a minute Might search for it your whole life through If you're good enough to know when you're in it Make it go on and on, and on and on and on You might keep that love in a bottle Might say it has wings, set it free If you're good enough to know what you ought to Make it go on and on, and on and on and on The river is wide, yeah, but it ain't the sea Simple enough it's just you and me Don't need no money, don't put on a show Just try to be ready and let it go, let it go, let it go The river is wide yeah, but it ain't the sea Simple enough it's just you and me Don't need no money, don't put on a show Just try to be ready and let it go, let it go, let it go If the sun comes up in the morning Finds that you're still running away Remember that the lessons you're learning go on and on, and on and on Goin' on and on and on and on Goin' on and on, on and on Goin' on

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It could be a show at the Gingko, Professor Java's, or Steamers. There could be a pretty good crowd or just a couple of people in the back playing cards. Doesn't matter, I feel lucky to be there. This is the music you might have heard on any one of those Friday or Saturday nights. Some songs are just me and my guitar, some have a couple of good friends sitting in. Best of all, now you're here. How could I know....

music and lyrics by Evan Johnson

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released June 5, 1999

Evan Johnson
Memphis Evans
Kaptain Karl

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Evan Johnson is a singer-songwriter living outside (but not too far outside) St. Paul, MN

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