I woke up this morning
And I got myself together
Listened to the neighbors
Complain about the weather
If that's their biggest worry
They've got it pretty good

My world is spinning out of control
Why must you and I hurt each other?
And can't our love go all the way?

Headed to the office
I ran into a friend
He said it made him frightened
The condition I was in
I told him not to worry
Yes everything is fine

But my world is spinning out of control
Why must you and I hurt each other?
And can't our love go all the way?

Later in the evening
I'm sitting by myself
Thinking 'bout the future
Avoiding something else
I hear your voice calling to me
From another room

My world is spinning out of control
Why must you and I hurt each other?
And can't our love go all the way?

Credits:

Todd Evans - Vocal, Guitar, Engineer, Producer
William Maxwell - Bass, Drums, Keyboard

All The Way was written in early 1997 while I was living just outside Boston, MA. My wife and I were preparing for a move to California and into the great unknown. At the time I had a job as a computer specialist. I had decided to leave the cash cow behind, head west and pursue my dreams of a career in music.

Anyway, I was playing some open mics and was inspired by one guy's guitar phrasing. I decided to see if I could write a similar guitar line and sing over it at the same time. The chorus melody is one of the first I wrote that feels like mine, in it I hear the roots of the musical direction I've been headed ever since.

I was also thinking of something I once read about Bob Dylan's way of "singing across the bar lines." I tried to write a melody in which the accents would fall differently from those of the guitar. It seems I succeeded - as a result the chorus can be tricky to perform.