Big Idea

by Automatic Shoes

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richard127 This man can do no wrong. Another fantastic track. Looking forward to a new album.

Janine Alden Excellent vocals, instrumentals, balance, everything.

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"Matthew Joseph Hughes makes a welcome return to our playlists (and to Tracks Of The Week) with this sweet, plaintive new ditty under the Automatic Shoes guise (you may also recognise his voice from Spokane, Washington glamsters Atari Ferrari). With its simple acoustic strumming and harmonica lines, combined with Hughes’s warm harmonies and delicate pop musings about dragons in dreams, it feels like the song Bob Dylan might have written with Marc Bolan." - Classic Rock Magazine

lyrics

I used to ride monsters
Used to chase screams
Used to fly dragons
And remember my dreams

I used to fight demons
Go looking for more
I used to try anything
To even the score

What's the deal?
I got a big idea
Is it real
Any time I see ya

I used to run circles
Leave you in the dust
Used to grow flowers
In diamonds and rust

Ever a child
And forever evolve
I used to hear voices
Now nobody calls

What's the deal?
I got a big idea
Is it real
Any time I see ya

I used to say something
But I lost the words
I used to make music
That nobody heard

I haven't lost count
Of the times I misled
Times I didn't intend
To do what I said

What's the deal?
I got a big idea
Is it real
Any time I see ya

I used to ride monsters
Used to chase screams

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released September 25, 2023
Words and music by Matthew Joseph Hughes

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Automatic Shoes Spokane, Washington

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Automatic Shoes is the solo project of Atari Ferrari frontman Matthew Joseph Hughes.

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