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Songwriter, Patrick Ames' music is available on SoundCloud, Spotify, iTunes, Amazon, Google Play and your favorite music outlets. The newest studio recording is a single, Somehow I'll Find a Way, with Harmonium (June 2022); The Virtualistics (June 2021); with Liveness (April 2020), All I Do Is Bleed April 2019; Affettuosos, April 2018; Like Family released Sept 2017. Four Faces was released in Feb 2017, and Standard Candles in 2016.
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New Single! Somehow I'll Find A Way
April 14, 2023
Produced by Jon Ireson, "Somehow" is a visit to Americana. The campy song involves a songwriter writing a song about quitting songwriting while driving home from a gig he just quit. Playful and catchy, you'll be playing and singing this in the car, playing air drums on the steering wheel rim.
lyrics
Somehow
by Patrick Ames. ©2023 All Rights Reserved. BMI.
Somehow I'll find a way
To get back home find a place to play
No more gigs so far away
I'm driving home
Somehow we'll get a loan
I'll find a job we'll buy a home
no more phones just us alone
I'm coming home
1.
I quit my gig tonight
No one ever came I sang to chairs
Then they cut my nightly rate
Put me down as the second bill
And every night between my sets
I'd sit alone and think of you
I'm driving home
With guitars and microphones
I quit my gig and I'm coming home
Somehow I'll find a way
To get back home find a place to play
No more gigs so far away
I'm driving home
Mile after mile
on and on through Ohio
at least its flat
I'm driving home
2.
I called the talent agency
From the lobby of my cheap motel
I couldn't pay the rent I owed
Because they never paid me myself
The agency said they had enough
for a rental car out of there
So, I'm driving home
Full of guitars and microphones
I quit my gig, I'm driving home
Refrain
Somehow I'll find a way
I'll get back home find a place to play
I'll get a job I'll work all day
I'm driving home
Somehow I'll get a loan
I'll find a job I'll buy you a home
No more apartments, no more phones
We'll be alone
Somehow I'll get back home
I'll find some money I'll work alone
I'll get a job I'll find a way
I"m driving home
How wide is ohio
siri how wide is ohio
how wide is ohio
I'm trying to get home / I'm driving home
Somehow I'll find a way
To stay at home find a place to play
No more gigs so far away
I'm driving home
Harmonium - June 1, 2022
Produced by Jon Ireson
Recorded Dec 2021 - April 2022
Harmonium is the title of Wallace Stevens’ first book of poetry (1923) and I happened to be reading it while in my music studio about a century later, during the 2021-2022 Omicron virus wave. The poems were inspiring so I borrowed the title for a new music project and then buried myself alive for about three months trying to emulate the inspiration. I was also trying to ignore the news, the virus wave and then the war in Ukraine, trying to be positive, inspired, busy. As such, there are no grand overarching themes in this new LP. Only a purposeful exploration of what I want to matter again. That’s why there’s Grace, the LP’s finale.
credits
Produced by Jon Ireson
Patrick Ames: Guitars and vocals
Jon Ireson: Bass, Guitars, Keyboards, Programming, Producer
Chana Matthews: Backup vocals
The Virtualistics - June 16, 2021
Produced by Jon Ireson.
Recorded May 2020 - May 2021.
The Virtualistics. The band never met. We never met during a difficult pandemic year. The four of us never practiced together. We didn't sing together nor did we pre-plan the final sound. We were virtual entities, duly recording our tracks on various home devices and sending them in for assembly. Those famous photographs of The Virtualistics, studious musicians playing on stage, hard working in the studio, those tired looks of a fifth take, none of that happened. We never sang or played together.
Eight tracks recorded during the pandemic by The Virtualistics.