Roots pop singer/songwriter Josh Rouseis a melodic folk/ soft rocksinger. He was born in 1972 in Nebraska, living in California, Tennessee, Utah, Wyoming, Nebraska, South Dakota, Georgia, and Arizona during the years to follow; obsessed as a teen with British cult favorites like The Smithsand The Cure, he learned to play guitar from his uncle and wrote his first song at 18. Signing to the Rykodisc subsidiary Slow River, in 1998, Rouse issued his debut album, Dressed Up Like Nebraska, to widespread critical acclaim; upon settling in Nashville, he was befriended by Kurt Wagner, frontman of the endlessly brilliant chamber countrygroup Lambchop, and in the fall of 1999, the two singers/songwritersissued a collaborative EP, Chester. Rouse's second solo LP, Home, appeared the following spring and was followed by Under the Cold Blue Starsin 2002. For his next record Rouse hooked up with producer Brad Jonesand the resulting album in 2003, 1972, was both a homage to the soft rock sounds of Rouse's youth and an opening up and deepening of his sound.
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Josh Rouse

Think I'm gonna pass out
Think I'll just lay down right here
Would someone turn the light out?
I'll cover myself with a jacket, I'll still
Catch the last ride on a Brooklyn train
30 years old and nothing's changed
Spent hours on a landline,
Hopin' you would find time for me
Showed up at your door, it was a scene
I was so sure,
You would be free
I should have caught a ride on a Brooklyn train
30 years old and nothing's changed
And I'll rise to greet you in the morning... time
And I'll rise to greet you in the morning
Tried so hard to ignore
All the feelings I have for you,
They won't leave
I'm so crazy
How I wish you would come around
And we could meet
So catch the last ride on the Brooklyn train
Meet me on a corner and I'll entertain
And I'll rise to greet you in the morning... time
And I'll rise to greet you in the morning
It's an honest thing, and honest things they last
I think they're gonna come and carry me away...
I think they're gonna come and carry me away...
I think they're gonna come and carry me away...
From you...
I think they're gonna come and carry me away...
I think they're gonna come and carry me away...
I think they're gonna come and carry me away...
From you... From you... From you...