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NEWS – Announcing the February 23, 2018 release of the new studio record, Dust Cloud Refrain, with Dutch record label, CONTINENTAL (CRS).
You can click below to hear advance tracks from the new record on CONTINENTAL.

https://continentalrecordservices.bandcamp.com/album/dust-cloud-refrain

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[sc_embed_player fileurl=”http://www.adamjamessorensen.com/adamsongs/suburban.mp3″] Suburban Rock and Roll (3:26) [expand title=”lyrics”]
Suburban rock and roll
Drivin’ fast and movin’ slow
It seems like every time you go
you end up back in town

Lookin’ for a dream
Somewhere in between
You’re feelin’ trapped
You’re feelin’ mean
It’s got you on the ground

But it’s right outside your window
You can feel it in the air
It calls to you so softly
Just loud enough for you to hear
Just loud enough

Suburban rock and roll
With the lights down low
You said goodbye it’s time to go
You made your way around

You’re headin’ for a dream
You’re leavin’ fast you’re leavin’ clean
City life you’ll make the scene
It’s your time now

And it’s right outside your window
You can feel it in the air
It calls to you so softly
Just loud enough for you to hear
Yes it’s right outside your window
You can feel it in the air
It calls to you so softly
Just loud enough for you to hear
Just loud enough

Suburban rock and roll

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[sc_embed_player fileurl=”http://www.adamjamessorensen.com/adamsongs/chicagoriver.mp3″] Chicago River (4:02) [expand title=”lyrics”]
Chicago river pullin’ me slow
Bring this lonely boy back home
To his family
The suburban dream

SUV’s and shopping malls
A big television that hangs on the wall
With such an urgency
It’s too much for me

I’ll take my time
The way I do
Cause I’ve got nowhere to be
I’m in no hurry

Leavin’ tomorrow
I’m takin’ a plane
I’m hopin’ this time
It wont be the same
When I cross that sea
Will I still find me

You know I’m leavin’ Chicago
Before it gets cold
The wind and the memories
They get a hold
It’s a game you see
It’s a hide and seek

I’ll take my time
The way I do
Cause I’ve got nowhere to be
I’m in no hurry now
I’m in no hurry
I’m in no hurry now now
I’m in no hurry

You know I’m leavin’ Chicago
I’m leavin’ Chicago
I’m leavin’ Chicago
Before it gets cold
I’m leavin’ Chicago
I’m leavin’ Chicago
Before it gets cold
Before it gets cold

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[sc_embed_player fileurl=”http://www.adamjamessorensen.com/adamsongs/radio.mp3″] With Your Radio On (4:39) [expand title=”lyrics”]
It’s a fast Sunday crowd
Alone in your car
You’re screamin’ out loud
With your radio on

His words try to hide
What he means when he calls
You reach out for him
As he begins to fall

You reach out for him
You reach out for him
With your radio on

You feel him close
In your green Sunday dress
You hold on to it
Like the sins he confessed to you

It’s all been forgiven
Washed away by time
The lies that you’ve been livin’
The lies that hold on tight
The lies that hold on

You’re alone through the weekend
As the clock plays its song
You wake up on Monday
With your Sunday dress on

You reach out for him
You reach out for him
With your radio on

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[sc_embed_player fileurl=”http://www.adamjamessorensen.com/adamsongs/desperation.mp3″] Desperation (5:25) [expand title=”lyrics”]
Thumbin’ through a box of pictures
Haunted by the ones I can’t let go
Images of the ghost of my addiction
I can feel them in my bones

She was passing through from Idaho
What part I don’t know
A cheap case of beer
and a school girl smile
They say love’s better on the road

I can still see her grinnin’
Blue jeans on the floor the music low
She took me way beyond my limit
I gave her all I had and more

My savior lit the way
With neon lights
As I fell faster
Into the night
I always try to do what’s right
What’s right

Twenty one, shootin’ pool, drinkin’
I watch her move real slow she pours my beer
Damn my inhibitions as they’re sinkin’
Last call, closing time is near

Salt Lake girls are known for Jesus
Their bright blue eyes and silky hair of gold
You hear the angel calling from the temple
She left me in the bathtub wanting more

My savior lit the way with neon lights
As I fell faster into the night
I always try to do what’s right
What’s right

They are burned into my vision
The ash tray’s full, the sheets are cold
I’ve always taken what I’ve given
Desperation takes its toll

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[sc_embed_player fileurl=”http://www.adamjamessorensen.com/adamsongs/fires.mp3″] People Start Fires (4:00) [expand title=”lyrics”]
People start fires
Then they walk away
Unaware of the damage done
Of the price to pay

People are liars
When they’re caught they say
They are sorry for what they’ve done
For what they did not say

People climb higher
To themselves they pray
Unaware they’re far from home
That they’ve lost their way

People start cryin’
Then they look away
Ashamed of what they’ve become
What they gave away

Sometimes it’s easier
When we’re left alone
The people that hurt us
The ones we love and know
Are the ones that help us grow

People keep tryin’
It’s our natural way
As we’re falling towards the ground
We sometimes find our way

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[sc_embed_player fileurl=”http://www.adamjamessorensen.com/adamsongs/midwest.mp3″] Midwest (3:25) [expand title=”lyrics”]
Has the midwest got you down
I see you hiding your rainy day frown
The postman takes your letter
He heads for better weather
His journey takes him west to higher ground
Your words they travel to another town
Has the midwest got you down

Has the midwest got you down
I hear you speaking but your heart wont make a sound
You make love to the spring
Summer spreads her wings
And autumn it will bring you back to the ground
With winter’s arms around you
Has the midwest got you down

Has the midwest got you down
You need lift off but your feet wont leave the ground
Are you waiting for the rain to disappear again
Departing soon as clearer skies are found
Your body’s free although your heart is bound
Has the midwest got you down
Your body’s free although your heart is bound
Has the midwest got you down

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[sc_embed_player fileurl=”http://www.adamjamessorensen.com/adamsongs/winter.mp3″] Winter Song (4:25) [expand title=”lyrics”]
I remember, I held your hand
And the monster went away
You are the words, I’ve sat down and written
You are the prayers that I’ve prayed

I see my reflection, in your eyes
I see my future days
You are a prophet, that’s come in disguise
You’ve come down to light my way

The Winter comes on wings of snow
It travels from the sea
The song it sings is soft and sad
With echoes of spring
With echoes of spring

I long for the mountains
For what they bring
Yes I long for the high desert air
And I miss my friends
I miss the songs they sing
The people who care

And when a man
He loses direction
He forgets what he’s known
There is a song
He hears it while he’s dreaming
The mountain calls him home

The spring it comes
on canyon streams
It dances to the sea
The song it sings
is soft and sweet
It sings its song to me

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[sc_embed_player fileurl=”http://www.adamjamessorensen.com/adamsongs/shadows.mp3″] Shadows in the Snow (4:17) [expand title=”lyrics”]
Shadows in the snow
I’m comin’ back home
Turn out the lights
Tuck my fears away

Years of runnin’ wild
Runnin’ from my child
He’s all bruised up
And so in need of sleep

The prayer is short
I pray my soul to keep
I pray my soul to keep

I want to understand
How to be a man
When the lights go dim
I try to hold on tight

The years go fast
It’s somethin’ deep inside
It’s somethin’ deep inside

Inside
Inside

I kiss the darkened sky
Sledding in park
Hear the echoes of my cries
Am I still afraid of the dark
Am I still afraid

The mountains breath is cold
It whispers through the snow
It calls to me
In the dark of night

Pull the covers up
I switch out the light

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[sc_embed_player fileurl=”http://www.adamjamessorensen.com/adamsongs/signal.mp3″] Signal (4:53) [expand title=”lyrics”]
Am I breaking up
Can you still hear me
Is it the walls of this building
Is it that you’re not near me
Is it what’s not been said

We lie in a bed
So carefully made
I feel our signal
Beginning to fade

Are my feet on ground
Am I stable
Am I so unwilling
Or am I just unable
To return the love that you gave

I still taste your lips
as we kissed in the shade
We try to hold on
As it fades

Is love holding ground
Are we willing
To fight till it bleeds us
Till there’s no more killing
We set down the weapons we have made

We’re bound by a pact
That two young lovers made
We’re just chasing ghosts
As our signal It fades
It fades

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[sc_embed_player fileurl=”http://www.adamjamessorensen.com/adamsongs/northside.mp3″] Northside (5:45) [expand title=”lyrics”]
You hitchhiked home from California
Your golden dream it disappeared
You were born in Chicago
Where you can hear the ballgame in the air

You grew up fighting on the north side
You and your brother against the world
In a hurry going nowhere
You fell in love with a south side girl

She walked right by you
her long black hair was heaven
You can see a child in her eyes
She looked right through you
She knew what you were thinkin’
Sometimes you don’t have to try

You walked her down the aisle
Soon a baby on the way
Your shadow followed close behind you
You keep it hidden in the day

She believed that she could change you
Though her mother told her no
When you’ve got a family and a habit
You’ve got nowhere else to go

She walked right by you
Her long black hair was heaven
You can see a child in her eyes
She looked right through you
She knew what you were thinkin’
Sometimes you don’t have to try

You’d hurt her for last time
She took her baby and she ran
Come between a woman and her child
You know a woman takes her stand

They found you on the north side
All alone and full of pain
The needle took you down
when you were twenty five
She still loved you just the same

She walked right by you
Long black hair was heaven
You can see a child in her eyes
She looked right through you
Knew what you were thinkin’
Sometimes you don’t have to
Sometimes you don’t have to try

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[sc_embed_player fileurl=”http://www.adamjamessorensen.com/adamsongs/stranger.mp3″] Stranger (3:25) [expand title=”lyrics”]
There’s a hole in my soul
That I just can’t seem to fill
For my spirit it weighs heavy
As my feet walk on up that hill

It’s not a woman
Who’s done me wrong
And it’s not the rain
On my window sill

It’s a hole
Black as the coal
Black as the coal
That runs beneath these hills

I asked a stranger
He was a miner
To shine his light down
So I could see

What’s at the bottom
Of that black hole
What’s at the bottom
Of what’s killin’ me

Went down a lookin’
With the stranger
To set my
To set my spirit free

What I found there
Was a shovel
That stranger
He just stared at me

We stood silent
His light it faded
And I felt the darkness
Surrounding me

He then handed
To me the shovel
He had known me
For eternity

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