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30 Trips Around The Sun

by PHYLLIS JOHNSON

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Played piano by ear age 5. Ran car battery dead listening to the Beatles. Taught herself guitar age 9. AM radio was her closest companion. Played trumpet age 10. Spun records endlessly. Hopeful. Obsessed with Rachmaninoff. Taught herself drums age 15. Infatuated with Gershwin. Inspired. Wrote 1st song age 16. Won piano scholarship age 17. Attended music school. Intrigued with all instruments. Sought to master as many as possible. Audition placed her under Prince's purple canopy. Did the Minneapolis funk/r&b thing. Returned to music school. Resolute. Wrote music day and night. Sang jazz in award winning vocal group. Choir received top national honors in Chicago. Featured in Down Beat Magazine. 1 of 2 awarded highest honors for outstanding vocal performance at Greeley Jazzfest. Earned Bachelor of Music degree. Happy. Wrote/recorded old school pop with original band. Played in popular alt-country band. Sustained vocal injury. Ended hopes of music career. Devastated. Doc said, "When given a lemon make lemonade." Continued writing/recording in spite of challenges. Fire destroyed studio. Defeated. Walked away from music for a season. Cathartically composed originals for her ears only. Accumulated hundreds of songs in backlog. Rebuilt studio. Determined. Resurrected songs from ashes. Now has catalog 25 years deep. Received requests to release music. Dream reawakens. Struggles with vocals but defiantly refuses to quit. Tracks mostly solo with occasional studio favors. Records slowly but tenaciously. Thankful. Her once agile voice is replaced with fragile, world weary one. Upon completion, collection will be appropriately titled, LEMONADE. Many more to come. Musical influences include the Beatles, Kinks, Byrds, Left Banke, David Bowie, Todd Rundgren, Elton John, Badfinger & Brian Wilson.

SEE "30 TRIPS AROUND THE SUN" VIDEO HERE: www.youtube.com/watch?v=by6rkv2Wctg

lyrics

30 TRIPS AROUND THE SUN

The signal was fading
Static on the airwaves
There you were waiting
To cut me like a switchblade

You still get to me every time
All these years and still you're so contagious
Same old charlatans spell I've fallen under
Kissed the girls and you made them cry
And even though you haven't come around in ages
I hung on every word when I was younger

Your record was playing
It read me like an x-ray
Leavin' me swaying
Like smoke above an ashtray

You're still using those same old lines
No one ever thought that they would go the distance
Your serenading would leave them broken hearted
Always thought you could read my mind
You always seem to find the path of least resistance
You had me right from the moment that you started

*Keyboard Solo*

You come on fast and you kill them slow
Then you slip away before you been detected
Falling off of the charts to be forever
One more ghost in my radio
Adrift in circuitry that's gone defective
A feat of ledger domain oh aren't you clever

~Bridge
You planned this I bet
As if you thought I could forget
In 30 long trips around the sun
It shouldn't hurt this much
Like some old persistent crush
You're fading out I know you have to run
Are you satisfied now look at what you've done

In 30 trips around the sun
Are you satisfied with what you have done?
In 30 trips around the sun
You're fading out why did you have to run?
In 30 trips around the sun
Are you satisfied with what you have done?
Shouldn't hurt this much
Still hurts so much
It still hurts

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released February 10, 2016
Songwriting: Phyllis Johnson (music/lyrics)/Stefan Johnson (lyrics)
Phyllis Johnson: vox, keys, guitar, bass
Matt "Big Daddy" Weaver: drums

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