This autobiographical song talks about when Cheryl was a teenager. Most of us can probably identify with this song: listening to our music in our room.
The version on the Folk Scene album is a live version of the song.
- Music In My Room
- Words And Music By:
- Cheryl Wheeler
- In my secret hideaway, I would play all night
- So if you go out, hope you don't want me to.
- I've got a rendezvous with a stack of forty fives
- Saturday night sittin' home alone disconnect the phone,
- Put these records on.
- Up in my room, tryin' to find the chords learning all the words
- To all my favorite songs.
- I love to hear those voices talk in rhymes.
- I know I've played this one a hundred times,
- And I know the songs will end too soon,
- When I'm listenin' to the music in my room
- In my bed by the radio
- Kept it turned so low listnin' in the dark
- Closing my eyes, whispering along
- Waiting for the song that always hit the mark
- I counted two's and four's instead of sheep
- I sailed across the Mersey in my sleep
- And I knew the songs would end too soon
- When I listened to the music in my room
- It was something to take with me where I went
- Secret and seductive in my ear
- Oh, wondering if all those hours spent
- Lost in something I could only hear
- Saturday night always here and gone
- Sunday comes along
- Friday seems so far
- Sitting in school, groovin' in my chair
- Tap the desk and stare
- And dream of my guitar
- I drifted off in waves of rock and roll
- And I wondered if I had a rubber soul
- And I knew the songs would end too soon
- When I listened to the music in my room
- So if you go out hope you don't want me to
- i've got a rendezvous with a stack of forty fives.
- 2/15/89
- (P) May 27, 2003
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