Wherever I Go — An adult rambling musician follows one continuous bright path from Merced streets through orchards and Sierra foothills to the Pacific

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Wherever I Go

Words by Douglas Heyes Jr. Listen to the recorded versions and follow the lyric below.

Original Doug Heyes lyrics · AI-generated music & vocals

Having left Los Angeles, the narrator finds himself caught in another repetitive life beside a California bay. Rehearsed routines, slowing time and approaching weather make each day feel like the last. The hoped-for escape has become a different form of confinement, leaving him questioning both the place he chose and the pattern he carries.

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Recorded versions

3 recordings. Different voices and arrangements bring another side of the song into the light.

Lyrics

Wherever I Go

Words by Douglas Heyes Jr

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Wherever I go
It’s the same old show
I might be saying something
That you already know
If there’s no time to question why
Why do days keep flying by
I can’t even blink my eye
And another day's gone by
Oh yeah
Another day’s gone by

Try to smile it could be worse
Second verse same as the first
Every move always rehearsed
Is this a blessing or a curse
There’s a rhythm to it all like a bouncing basketball like footsteps down the hall Like rats inside the wall Clickety clack like a machine Lubricate with Vaseline Churnin’ out the copies Burnin Up the poppies

It's another Groundhog Day
In a city by a bay
Somewhere in California
Way North of LA
It’s turned Into what I fear
All alone and no one here
Misty mornings, never clear
Lord, please get Me out of here

CHORUS:
I can see the seagulls flying
High above the Bay
I can hear the children crying
Cuz they can't come out to play
Man,  sometimes I really wish
I’d never left LA
I went away, I couldn’t face
Another Groundhog Day

I smoke one in the morning before I’m out of bed before I have my coffee you can give me up for Weather’s got a warning that a storm is on the way Batten down the hatches for another Groundhog Day
Time is really slowing down sometimes right down to a crawl Times I stop and wonder if there’s any time at all Maybe we just made it up think I’ll have a second cup
I can hear the waves roll in
A rhythm as the day begins

Here I am again another castaway I lost almost everything before I left LA
A holiday a getaway a way to find another way A sacrifice a price to pay it’s just another Groundhog Day
CHORUS:
I can see the seagulls flying
High above the Bay
I can hear the children crying
Cuz they can't come out to play
Man,  sometimes I really wish
I’d never left LA
I went away, I couldn’t face
Another Groundhog Day