Move Slow

This is another early one, and I think its also one of my best and most versatile compositions. I wrote it during my senior year in the jazz studies program at William Paterson University. I was in a composers ensemble led by professor Kevin Norton. It started out as an instrumental sort of slow-blues with a swing feel. However, my brother and longtime musical partner was also living with me in NJ at the time and we were starting a blues-based band called “Utica Greens.” Once I added the lyrics it was a natural addition to our repertoire and we even recorded on an EP. This recording can be heard below. The exceptional players on this recording are:

-Matt Lomeo, Vocals and Harmonica

-Dan Rufolo, Piano

-Max Stehr, Bass

-Dana LaMarca, Drums

LYRICS:

Move Slow

Lets take a walk back, where the tall grass grows

The day is over sun is sinking low

If our love is like a flower got to let it grow

And when the moon comes over the mountains we can get real close

Chorus:

(And) Move Slow

Just Move Slow

The lampposts are lit now, and the sky looks bruised

Before you can love, you’ve got to have something to lose

We can shout it out or be sure that no one knows

And when the moon comes over the mountains we can get real close

Chorus:

(And) Move Slow

Just Move Slow

Bridge:

I like the way that you make me wonder

If I’ve waited long enough

My heart is racing, you fill me with thunder

Still you make me count each touch

I’d rather be buried, six feet in the clay

Then let some other man hold you close this way

It ain’t that I’m jealous, I just love you so

And when the moon comes over the mountains we can get real close

Chorus:

(And) Move Slow

Just Move Slow

Music and Lyrics by Adam Lomeo. 2009