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Welcome Back

from Counterfeit Heart by Chris Crabtree

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Spoiler alert: Welcome Back tells the whole story of “Zen” in three short verses. Why, then did I need to write the novel? The short answer is that I could never hope to explain the intricacies of shrinking jeans to fit properly in the course of any song. The long story is that you need to read the book! The song almost didn’t make it onto the album at all. I had no idea how to pull it off musically. I knew it needed to be big, needed to build to what I hoped would be a soaring conclusion but I was going to need help to realize that vision. Enter two of the most tasteful players I’ve ever met. John Gentile can do it all. On this song, he played the drums. His playing is so restrained and so dynamic. Salar Rajabnik is a fantastic artist in his own right. I was so lucky to enlist his bass playing on this song. It’s one of my favorite to play live. I love singing the big notes at the end. It takes everything I’ve got and I love to give it.

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Welcome back to the light
Welcome back to your life
Welcome back to what started out
as a scenic route
to find your way to
to the light

She's every broken piece of you that's missing…

Take the wheel for the ride
Take the wheel, there's no place to hide
Take the wheel and we'll start it out
Take a scenic route and we'll
Find our way through the night

She's every broken piece of you that's missing…

Welcome back to your hometown
Welcome back, hey what's got you down?
Welcome back to where you started out
All your hopes and doubts are
In their corner for the fight

She's every broken piece of you that's missing
And you're lying there dying
And you don't even know what your missing…

Don't you tell me that you're gonna run
When there's a heart here yet to be won
And we cannot be undone
By a bullet or a gun

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from Counterfeit Heart, released November 13, 2015
John Gentile: Drums
Salar Rajabnik: Bass
Chris Crabtree: Guitars and Vocals

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Chris Crabtree Kansas City, Kansas

Chris Crabtree is a Kansas City singer-songwriter originally hailing from the sagebrush plains of Texas. He released his first rock album, Counterfeit Heart, in 2015. That record served as a soundtrack to his novel, Zen and the Art of Killing Your Self, also released at the same time. His music draws from the sounds of Ryan Adams, Daniel Lanois, Tom Petty, Bruce Springsteen, U2, and Bob Dylan. ... more

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