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(Ft The Henry Girls) Five More Minutes

from Oh My Stars by Charlie Roth

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Written by Matt Morrow Pet Lamb Music
& Charlie Roth SESAC Charlie Roth Music

‘Five More Minutes’ was written in Cumbernauld Scotland with Matt Morrow. We had been driving around the highlands together on my last tour with him backing me on guitar. I asked him if he had any song ideas and he told me the story of him being on tour in Texas playing guitar for Tim Scott. Matt said that they came across a tornado and he could not take his eyes off it. In Texas they are quite common but I don’t think they have them in Scotland. I came up with the guitar riff and Matt grabbed a pen and wrote the first verse pretty much just as it is. I took the pen and wrote most of the second verse and came up with the hook, which is also the title. We finished it together that night in the back room of Matt’s favourite Pub in Cumbernauld over some pints of warm beer and a wee dram. It became a song about our fathers and maybe everybody’s father. (I wish I had five more minutes to tell you that I heard every word you said even though at the time I acted like I did not. I might have even thought that you were a fool.) That is quite common in father son relationships I think and even with some father daughter ones.

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Five More Minutes

Half way up to Dallas
Standing still in a truck
Staring at the angry sky
Pushing our luck

Hailstone up ahead of us
Twister from the south
Wonderin’ what the hell to do
With our hearts up in our mouth

I couldn’t move
I just stood there mesmerized
Mother natures awesome power
built a wall cloud in the sky

Tim said let’s get out of here
it’s bound to come our way
I told him that a highland boy
Don’t see this everyday

Just give me five more minutes
five more minutes
Give me five more minutes
Then we’ll be on our way

I was like that twisted wind
I was an angry troubled child
down tainted streets of sin
I was a whirlwind running wild

My dad tried to tame me down
I thought I knew it all
He used to say it was
like talking to a wall

Five more minutes
sure wish I had five more minutes
Wish I had five more minutes
So I could tell him I heard it all
..solo.. Am D ..Five More Minutes 3 times
so I could tell him I heard it all

Bridge
Take a little time
Give yourself some space
Gather where your going
Forget about the race
and just take five more minutes
And have a little faith

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from Oh My Stars, released April 13, 2015
featuring The Henry Girls and the Healers

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Medicine Show Records Kent, Ohio

The Medicine Show is run by Scots Broadcaster Promoter Rob Ellen. He tends a tour of the Highlands for touring roots musicians. He helped found Belladrum Tartan Heart Festival.
The Highland tour has become a pilgrimage with American Musicians in particular, wishing to trace the roots of the music.
Rob's particular interest, is supporting House Concerts. Rob maintains the Euro House Concert Hub
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