Moving Up, Living Down Sneak Peek

The entire album is available for a short time from WMG

 

While you listen, check out a nice interview Eric did with AOL Music.

In The First Place Lyrics

In The First Place
Song and Lyrics by Eric Hutchinson

If you had any idea what it was gonna take
Would you have gotten started in the first place
All these commitments you’ve made
They keep on adding up
Because you got addicted from the first taste

Ooooh, nobody wonders
Nobody really cares
Ooooh, about your intentions
Until you gotten there

(Chorus)
Oooo, when you started out, you were just a blank space
You started out, you were just an ordinary face
You started out, now you’ve got to finish what you’ve done
Isn’t that why you started in the first place
Started in the first place

If you had ever believed
That you were gonna break
Would you have gotten going in the first place
All these decisions it takes
To get you through the day
With no one even noticing your heart break

Ooooh, are you alone yes
Are you in trouble no
Ooooh, people’s opinions
They tend to come and go

Oooo, when you started out, you were just a blank space
You started out, you were just an ordinary face
You started out, now you’ve got to finish what you’ve done
Isn’t that why you started in the first place
Started in the first place

How do you know
When you’re finally done
If you’ve got nothing to show
How do you know
When all the people you might trust
All forget to let you know

Ooooh

Oooo, when you started out, you were just a blank space
You started out, you were just an ordinary face
You started out, now you’ve got to finish what you’ve done
Isn’t the why you started in the first place
Started in the first place

Can you remember at the start
Can you remember trying your first shot
Can you remember wanting to be there
Can you remember wanting to be there
Do you know why you started in the first place
Do you know why you started in the first place
In the first place
Started in the first place

Started in the first place

The People I Know Lyrics

The People I Know
Song and Lyrics by Eric Hutchinson

I’ve got a best friend who I’ve known some time
And after all of these years I’ve got to read his mind
And when he leaves the room I can feel him sigh
As his thoughts  they slip out like whispers
Who would’ve know it’d be this hard to wait
For one person to person to communicate
And it never feels dramatic while we complicate
Thank god for old friends they always forgive us

I’m longing for the house remembering all these days
Never done enough, everything feels great
If I am not myself, then who am I pretending to be
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(Chorus)
And I said how am I gonna get by
Without the help of the people I know
For better or worse we all come together
And they won’t let me die alone
I said they won’t let me die alone

And I’ve got a sister who I barely see
Despite the fact the lives right up the block from me
And when we run into each other on the street
It’s like two strangers soul to soul
When I was younger she was younger too
It seems the space is the only thing that really grew
And now we’re both grown up and still without a clue
Thank god for family they always forgive us

I’m thinking of the house where we were always raised
In every family tree some history remains
If I am not myself, then who am I pretending to be

And I said how am I gonna get by
Without the help of the people I know
For better or worse we all come together
And they won’t let me die alone
I said they won’t let me die alone

Maybe I’m not supposed to be close
To all of the people I need the most, need the most

And I said how am I gonna get by
Without the help of the people I know
For better or worse we all come together
And they won’t let me die alone

I said now how am I gonna get by
When I’m afraid of the people I know
For better or worse we all come together
And they won’t let me die alone
I said they won’t let me die alone
I said they won’t let me die alone
I said they won’t let me die alone

Eric on The Tonight Show With Jay Leno

Monday April 2nd Eric will be on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno to perform Watching You Watch Him, from his forthcoming album Moving Up Living Down. This will be Eric’s 2nd appearance on the show.

 

Until 4/19/2012 you can see the show online.

The Basement Lyrics

THE BASEMENT

Song and Lyrics by Eric Hutchinson

Whooa, whooa, whooa
I’m going down to the basement ya’ll
Where people all have a good time
The parties that I hear have nothing to do with
My ears are going out of my mind, mind, mind
Down here they play the real thing
Songs that were really rock and roll
It’s a cliche to put it this way
But they don’t make em like that anymore, more, more, more
So if they put me in the spot light
I’m never leaving the floor

I’m going down to the basement
I’m going down to the basement
I’m going down to the basement
Cause I really want to rock and roll
Ooohhh

An old man gets on the mic
Tells us to hang our burdens up
He says songs you hear today all start to get in the way
Till you’re barely feeling the love, love, love, love
He drops the needle on a pop song
He drops the needle on some soul
And I watch a pimp fall in love over there
Dancing to songs their parents would know, know, know, know
So everybody give me room now
Watch me cut a rug in the show

I’m going down to the basement
I’m going down to the basement
I’m going down to the basement
Cause I really want to rock and roll
Ooohhh

Party people sweat out the night
Let your body do just what it likes
Just want to hear some favorite before my years
Dance soldiers forgetting our day jobs
Trying to get off cause we really came to rock and roll

I’m going down to the basement
I’m going down to the basement
I’m going down to the basement
Cause I really want to rock and roll
Cause I really want to rock and roll
Cause I really want to rock and roll
Cause I really want to rock and roll
Cause I really want to rock and roll
Say I really want to rock and roll