Chasing the Light - Mat Kearney

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Every bridge that you keep on burning
Every leaf that you keep on turning
Every road that you find uncertain
Pray for you now, baby, that you'll figure it out
As you keep chasing the light

Remember back when you slept on my floor
Blow up mattress down by the door
10 pounds heaver from wasted time
We didn't know we were way out of line

From the moment that you popped out on the scene
Hard to know what you got or your meant to be
Everything that you know goes flying
From Johnny O's coach to a gypsy bus island

Holding hands with people in life
Till they walk away saying no good byes
And you keep saying that you're running down a dream
But she don't know where it leads
As you keep chasing the light

Every bridge that you keep on burning
Every leaf that you keep on turning
Every road that you find uncertain
Pray for you now, baby, that you'll figure it out

Every hope and dream that's dying
Every time that I see you crying
Every step that you keep on climbing
Pray for you now, baby, that you figure it out
As you keep chasing the light

Got the call that you sent out yesterday
40 lines and a fallout holiday
On my knees with the weight that was mine
Think about you when I'm driving at night

Familiar sounds and it takes me right back there
Bridge street and the beat in the summer air
Was it easier to wash your feet
And never deal with the hell that a young boy sees

Where liquor runs thicker than blood
On your own when push came to shove
Before we had these mouths to feed with innocent dreams
While you keep chasing the light

Every bridge that you keep on burning
Every leaf that you keep on turning
Every road that you find uncertain
Pray for you now, baby, that you'll figure it out

Every hope and dream that's dying
Every time that I see you crying
Every step that you keep on climbing
Pray for you now, baby, that you figure it out
As you keep chasing the light

Remember hearing Dylan's first songs first
Remember writing down a train wreck verse
We were running down Franklin high school lights
Burning alive in a Chevrolet night

Remember driving out to Salton sea
Dreaming bout all we thought we'd be
One way tickets into southern lights
Slammed the door and said goodbye, goodbye

Every bridge that you keep on burning
Every leaf that you keep on turning
Every road that you find uncertain
Pray for you now, baby, that you'll figure it out

Every hope and dream that's dying
Every time that I see you crying
Every step that you keep on climbing
Pray for you now, baby, that you figure it out
As you keep chasing the light

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Mat Kearney (pronounced CARN-ee; born 1 December 1978 in Eugene, Oregon) is an American singer-songwriter based out of Nashville, TN, originally from Eugene, Oregon. His music has an acoustic base fused with hip hop. He is signed to Aware/Columbia Records. In addition to singing, he also plays guitar, piano and harmonica. Following his first EP release (in 2002), so far he has a total of five top-20 hits on the Adult Top 40 Chart. The Hey Mama Songfacts reports that Kearney turned to Hip Hop for inspiration when recording his fourth studio album Young Love, which was released on August 2, 2011.

He has toured with Owl City, John Mayer, Sheryl Crow, The Fray, Jason Mraz, Vedera Newsboys, MUTEMATH, Meiko, Cary Brothers, and Train; and headlined VH1's first ever "You Oughta Know Tour" in the spring of 2007.

Kearney's songs have appeared on the television series: Dirty Sexy Money, Kyle XY, The Unit, Without A Trace, Laguna Beach, The Hills, Bones, Jericho, Friday Night Lights, Wildfire, What About Brian, South Beach, 8th & Ocean, One Tree Hill, Scrubs, The Closer, NCIS, Life Unexpected and Grey's Anatomy.

He attended California State University, Chico in Chico, California where he majored in literature and played soccer until his junior year. It was also at this time when Mat picked up a guitar for the first time. Using a roommate's guitar, he tried covering other songs. Realizing he wasn't too good at it, he began writing his own.

Kearney has stated that his legal name is Mathew due to a nurse's error on his birth certificate. He discovered the error while in the 8th grade when he noticed how his mom corrected the error with red ink, never legally correcting it. Since then, he embraced the one T in his legal name. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.

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