featuring creative performances from the WVIA studios.

I'm George Graham.

This time it's a western New Jersey-based band who bring a melodic, folk-influenced sound to their original songs.

Here is Water Street.

(drum sticks count in) - One, two, three, four, one, two.

(upbeat music) ♪ I can't believe that girl could leave and head to Carolina ♪ ♪ Left behind a note for me to find ♪ ♪ That said she had to find herself ♪ ♪ Oh Carolina ♪ Hanging on to memories for so long I tried to hide them ♪ ♪ But every time I give them up ♪ ♪ She always calls me up to revive them ♪ ♪ Oh Carolina ♪ You cared about ♪ Packing up your things ♪ Just running out ♪ Oh to forget everything ♪ Whoa, oh, oh ♪ Oh Carolina ♪ I can't believe I had that dream to head to Carolina ♪ ♪ Bringing all the memories that you left ♪ ♪ That I was left to survive on ♪ ♪ On Carolina ♪ You cared about ♪ Packing up your things ♪ Just running out ♪ Oh to forget everything ♪ Whoa oh, oh ♪ Oh Carolina (short instrumental piece) ♪ You cared about ♪ Packing up your things ♪ The only thing ♪ Oh that you forgot ♪ Was me ♪ Whoa, oh ♪ Oh, you found your new prey ♪ Oh I found my way back ♪ Back from Carolina ♪ Oh Carolina ♪ Oh Carolina ♪ Oh Carolina (audience applauding) (cheering and whooping) - That's a Jersey song about Carolina.

We didn't know there was two.

(people laughing) - What's going on WVIA?

(small cheer) Woo.

We're Water Street from Blairstown, New Jersey.

(man shouts) Yeah, Blairstown!

Two stop lights.

It's really funny like warming up with that song and then playing it just now, it's like kind of ruins the surprise for you guys.

It was like, "Yay, that was great".

And I was like, "Let's do it again".

But act just as excited.

This is one of our songs from our EP called "Dear You", and the song is called "Dear You".

(guitar intro) (band joins the melody) ♪ Dear you ♪ Tell me what I did to be with someone ♪ ♪ Like you ♪ Conceivably meant to be my someone ♪ ♪ Show me ♪ Help me love ♪ I love the warmth in your eyes when you smile at me ♪ ♪ I love the way that you dance always out of beat ♪ ♪ I love the tears on your cheeks filled with sympathy ♪ ♪ I love the way that you hug everyone too long ♪ ♪ I love the way that you laugh when the joke is gone ♪ ♪ I love the way that our hands intertwine when we meet ♪ ♪ I love the ways that you show me ♪ ♪ How boundless your love can be ♪ Eddie Woodcock everybody!

(guitar riff plays) (keyboard melody) ♪ Well it's true ♪ We were caught up in our imaginations ♪ ♪ But I'm through ♪ Surrendering to our reservations ♪ ♪ The hiding ♪ The waiting's through ♪ I love the warmth in your eyes when you smile at me ♪ ♪ I love the way that you dance always out of beat ♪ ♪ I love the tears on your cheeks filled with sympathy ♪ ♪ I love the way that you hug everyone too long ♪ ♪ I love the way that you laugh when the joke is gone ♪ ♪ I love the way that our hands intertwine when we meet ♪ ♪ Whoa, oh ♪ I love the ways that you show me ♪ ♪ Oh, that this life is something that we never planned ♪ ♪ This love is bigger than we understand ♪ ♪ But who better ♪ Who better, who better ♪ Oh to show me how to love than you ♪ ♪ Who better than you ♪ Who better than you ♪ Who better than you ♪ Who better than you ♪ Who better than you ♪ Who better than you ♪ Who better than you ♪ Who better than you (audience applauding) So we put a new album out last year.

It's called "All We Tried To Be".

This is one of the songs from that album.

It's called Collateral.

(guitars intro) (rest of band joins in) ♪ Rain check back to reality ♪ Get out of your penthouse fantasy ♪ ♪ You know it isn't all about the lights on the screen ♪ ♪ Sometimes you gotta buckle down ♪ ♪ And remember just to stick to the dream ♪ ♪ Can you tell me who you think you are ♪ ♪ You're laying fancy rhythms on your blue guitar ♪ ♪ I hope you learn it ain't all about you ♪ ♪ But today and tomorrow it's clear you'll continue to ♪ ♪ Write your stupid love songs ♪ Dream of teenage drama ♪ Livin' out your one-act play ♪ You dump all of your problems ♪ ♪ On people who can't solve them ♪ ♪ Get out of your own damn way ♪ Hey ♪ What have you got to throw away ♪ ♪ My love it ain't collateral so ♪ ♪ Hey ♪ When are you gonna look my way ♪ ♪ And see your wisdom ain't so wonderful ♪ ♪ If perfect is all that you see, well ♪ ♪ I'm gettin' tired of the secrets ♪ ♪ Livin' out your one-act play ♪ Boy, you gotta shut your mouth ♪ ♪ There's a time and a place ♪ For every word that you gotta get out ♪ ♪ The more that you talk, the less that you listen ♪ ♪ The more we gotta work to fill you in ♪ ♪ On what you're missin' ♪ What exactly are you hopin' to find ♪ ♪ You're wanderin' for hours ♪ In the emptiness of your own mind ♪ ♪ Nice to tell you so you can't be broke ♪ ♪ Tell me how it feels you're the last to move on ♪ ♪ Just write your stupid love songs ♪ ♪ Dream of teenage drama ♪ Livin' out your one-act play ♪ You dump all of your problems ♪ ♪ On people who can't solve them ♪ ♪ Get out of your own damn way ♪ Hey ♪ What have you got to throw away ♪ ♪ My love it ain't collateral so ♪ ♪ Hey ♪ When are you gonna look my way ♪ ♪ And see your wisdom ain't so wonderful ♪ ♪ If perfect is all that you see, well ♪ ♪ I'm gettin' tired of the secrets ♪ ♪ Livin' out your one-act play (musical interlude) ♪ So hey ♪ What have you got to throw away ♪ ♪ My love it ain't collateral so ♪ ♪ Hey ♪ When are you gonna look my way ♪ ♪ And see your wisdom ain't so wonderful ♪ ♪ If perfect is all that you see, well ♪ ♪ I'm gettin' tired of the secrets ♪ ♪ Livin' out your one-act play (audience applauding) - Thank you guys.

(drum intro) This is a new song.

You know what?

Do you wanna introduce this song?

Just... - Sure.

This song's called Tidal Wave from Water Street's first ever album.

- One, two, one, two, three, four.

♪ Burdens that you keep around ♪ Only serve to drag you down ♪ Can't lock them in, can't shut them out ♪ ♪ The current's getting swifter now ♪ ♪ You've got to get away somehow ♪ ♪ You can't hang on to what you know ♪ ♪ No, I can't stay ♪ Caught up in a tidal wave ♪ But I don't wanna walk away ♪ So I do what's right and I know it's hard ♪ ♪ And nothing good ever came easy ♪ ♪ I rest my mind, couldn't rest my soul ♪ ♪ 'Cause I learned to love by letting go ♪ ♪ Sleeping in a bed for two ♪ You yell until your face turns blue ♪ ♪ It's hard to hurt, and harder to heal ♪ ♪ Your heart feels paper thin ♪ Then everything comes crashing in ♪ ♪ It's hard to quit and harder to go ♪ ♪ No, I can't stay ♪ Caught up in a tidal wave ♪ But I don't wanna walk away ♪ So I do what's right and I know it's hard ♪ ♪ And nothing good ever came easy ♪ ♪ I rest my mind, couldn't rest my soul ♪ ♪ 'Cause I learned to love by letting go ♪ ♪ Washed away again ♪ Wished away again ♪ Washed away again ♪ Wished away again ♪ Washed away again ♪ Wished away ♪ 'Cause I learned to love by letting go ♪ ♪ No I can't say ♪ Caught up in a tidal wave ♪ But I don't wanna walk away ♪ One, two, three ♪ So I do what's right and I know it's so hard ♪ ♪ And nothing good ever came easy ♪ ♪ I rest my mind, couldn't rest my soul ♪ ♪ 'Cause I learned to love by letting go ♪ ♪ Washed away again ♪ Wished away again ♪ Washed away again ♪ Wished away again ♪ Washed away again ♪ Wished away ♪ 'Cause I learned to love by letting go ♪ (cheers) (audience applauding) - Thank you very much.

- All right.

Wrote this next song, I was at a party that was much fancier than my pay grade as a musician.

Much, much, much.

And this is about my favorite person to hang out with at that party.

(solo acoustic guitar intro) ♪ Da dada do ♪ Da dada do ♪ Well I got your plus one invitation ♪ ♪ To the cocktail hour interrogation ♪ ♪ "Yeah what's your gig, your education" Yeah ♪ ♪ Big words, big names, small conversation ♪ ♪ Yeah, me and your pup we've got each other ♪ ♪ Give up our bark just to get our supper ♪ ♪ You twisted, two-face, trash-talk huffer ♪ ♪ My Christmas gift's your stocking stuffer ♪ ♪ Whoa, when you need me ♪ And you see that I'm not here ♪ ♪ Too late 'cause I'll be out here hangin' with the dog ♪ ♪ Whoa, whoa ♪ I'm hangin' with the dog ♪ Whoa, whoa ♪ Da dada do - Alex Kerssen everybody.

♪ Surviving tea time made me tougher ♪ ♪ But it's a quarter past my hour to supper ♪ ♪ 'Cause me and your pup we've got each other ♪ ♪ And we're heading back to the street wrapped suburb ♪ ♪ Whoa, when you need me ♪ And you see that I'm not here ♪ ♪ Pack up 'cause I'll be out here hangin' with the dog ♪ ♪ Whoa, whoa ♪ I'm hangin' with the dog ♪ Whoa, whoa ♪ Da dada do ♪ Da dada do ♪ Street rats, gutter dogs ♪ Stray cats, jungle frogs ♪ Stay back you don't wanna be them ♪ ♪ Stay back you just call 'em like you see them ♪ ♪ And it ain't no skin off me ♪ 'Cause it's clear as day to see ♪ ♪ That if you need me ♪ You don't need me, ha ♪ But if you need me I'll be out here hangin' with the dog ♪ ♪ Whoa, whoa ♪ I'm hangin' with the dog ♪ Whoa, whoa ♪ I'm hangin' with the dog ♪ Whoa, whoa ♪ I'm hangin' with the dog ♪ Whoa, whoa ♪ I'm hangin' with the dog ♪ Whoa, whoa ♪ I'm hangin' with the dog ♪ Whoa, whoa ♪ I'm hangin' with the dog ♪ Whoa, whoa ♪ I'm hangin' with the dog ♪ Whoa, whoa ♪ Whoo, oo, whoo-oo ♪ Da dado - Water Street kind of formed in 2011.

I was playing two or three songs at a coffee house years ago, and the guy went up and gave me a card and was like, "Put a whole set together, I'll book you".

And then, then we started, you know, building out other people and writing, you know, with different musicians.

And then a few years later along came Connor, and then we kind of started working on our first album together.

And then fast forward to this past year we've been playing together and still writing.

And when our album, "All We Tried To Be" was being made, we wanted to do some new stuff with it and kind of have this personal goal of let's do everything possible we set out to do with this.

And that's where Julia, my cousin, came in.

We did some harmonies together and looking ahead, like this group of guys here, all really talented musicians in their own right, we're kind of making the next generation of Water Street tunes that are are coming out and being written as we speak.

So I grew up on like early 2000s John Mayer.

I feel like his guitar is pretty telling.

He's just like from lyrically as a guitar player, he's just very well versed.

But more recently I've liked a lot of indie pop bands too.

There's a band called Valley who I really like a lot.

A lot of the songs on "All We Try To Be" too are also in like a drop tuning guitar.

So I've also really been influenced by some musicians who mess around with playing outside of standard guitar tuning too, so.

- Yeah.

Well we are cousins.

- Not all of us.

- It was really honestly - Just the two of us.

- Yeah, just the two of us are cousins, but I would volunteer for this organization called the Charles Heller Foundation.

And the year of Covid, we couldn't.

We would perform a musical every year, but because of Covid we couldn't do anything live.

So what we went to was performing songs and dances on Facebook and asking people to donate money to them.

So I posted a video of myself singing "Let's Hear It for The Boy" and David saw it and texted me maybe like a half hour later - Whoa!

- And was like, "Do you wanna sing harmonies on our upcoming album?"

And I was like, "Yeah, sure".

So like one Saturday, in 12 hours, we recorded every harmony for every song.

And then about a year and a half later the album came out.

- This next one we're gonna play is called "People".

And it's kind of serves as our title track of the new album.

Well new, it came out last year.

And the line in it is, "People, that was all we tried to be", and we kind of wrote it in the middle of Covid and all the craziness going on.

And it's kind of just about, you know, people have different opinions and different ways of viewing things.

And I think we all can kind of try and work together to get along, "Play nice now, you hear?"

(chuckles) As people.

♪ I'm not a prophet or a wise man ♪ ♪ Not a preacher with a sermon ♪ Not the orders from the captain ♪ ♪ Just the worldview of a has-been ♪ ♪ From the snow globe that I'm trapped in ♪ ♪ I see the soldiers at the fence lines ♪ ♪ They're bearing witness to the headline ♪ ♪ In the spotlight of these bitter times ♪ ♪ All my old friends having new fights ♪ ♪ Angry comments on a website, it's ♪ ♪ Right or wrong ♪ Red or blue ♪ Friend to me ♪ Or foe to you ♪ Seeing the picture but wish I was color-blind ♪ ♪ All that we are is more than we see ♪ ♪ Not who we've been ♪ Who we tried to be ♪ People, that was all we tried to be ♪ ♪ Just people, that was all we tried to be ♪ ♪ Numbed by fear, a broken spirit ♪ ♪ Isolation made me lose it ♪ So why are we making rifts ♪ I want to coexist ♪ With a million other misfits ♪ Can you find a way to fix it ♪ I'm headstrong, but so are you ♪ ♪ Friend to me ♪ Or foe to you ♪ I could be wrong ♪ So could you ♪ Hearing me ♪ Hearing you ♪ Seeing the picture but wish I was color-blind ♪ ♪ All that we are is more than we see ♪ ♪ Not who we've been ♪ Who we tried to be ♪ People, that was all we tried to be ♪ ♪ Just people, that was all we tried to be ♪ ♪ That's all we're trying ♪ That's all we're trying to ♪ That's all we're trying ♪ That's all we're trying to be ♪ ♪ That's all we're trying ♪ That's all we're trying to ♪ That's all we're trying ♪ That's all we're trying to be ♪ ♪ That's all we're tryin ♪ That's all we're tryin to do ♪ That's all we're tryna ♪ Who we tried to be ♪ That's all we're tryin ♪ That's all we're tryin to do ♪ That's all we're tryna ♪ Who we tried to be ♪ That's all we're tryin ♪ That's all we're tryin to do ♪ That's all we're tryna ♪ Who we tried to be ♪ That's all we're tryin ♪ That's all we're tryin to do ♪ Only you ♪ Whoa, oh, oh, oh ♪ That's all we're tryin to do ♪ That's all we're tryin ♪ That's all we're tryna do ♪ That's all we're tryna ♪ That's all we're tryna do ♪ That's all we're tryna ♪ That's all we're tryna do ♪ That's all we're tryna ♪ That's all we're tryna do ♪That's all we're tryna ♪ That's all we're trying to be ♪ (audience applauding) (instruments tuned) - This'll only take a second.

Yep, so we are from a little two stop light town called Blairstown, New Jersey.

It's where "Friday the 13th" was filmed.

It's our kind of claim to fame.

- Ooh!

- Whoo.

This song we're gonna play you has not been released yet, but it's called "Pen Pals".

- When is it gonna be released?

- It's gonna be released in TBD.

We're gonna talk about that in a little bit.

(laughs) This song is kind of about being stuck between having something and having nothing with someone.

And, it's about what that feels like.

(guitar plays) (drumsticks count in) ♪ Again ♪ Caught in your orbit again ♪ Pretend ♪ That things could be different instead ♪ ♪ Trapped in your universe, but ♪ ♪ Would it be worse if I wasn't ♪ ♪ Carried along by the curse of your cursive ♪ ♪ My running hand can't find the words ♪ ♪ When there's a thousand different ways to say ♪ ♪ I don't wanna be pen pals forever ♪ ♪ Writing with thumbs on a backlit screen ♪ ♪ Darling you read all my letters ♪ ♪ You don't gotta hide all your read receipts ♪ ♪ Give in ♪ You used up my postage ♪ You win ♪ Whoa ♪ Oh you just like to keep me contained ♪ ♪ When faded ink is all that remains ♪ ♪ Trapped in your universe, but ♪ ♪ Would it be worse if I wasn't ♪ ♪ Carried along by the curse of your cursive ♪ ♪ My running hand can't find the words ♪ ♪ And now I'm running out of ways to say ♪ ♪ I don't wanna be pen pals forever ♪ ♪ Writing with thumbs on a backlit screen ♪ ♪ Darling you read all my letters ♪ ♪ You don't gotta hide all your read receipts ♪ ♪ Oh you don't gotta, oh you don't gotta ♪ ♪ Don't gotta hide your read receipts ♪ ♪ I know you wanna, I know you wanna ♪ ♪ I know you wanna stay with me ♪ ♪ You knew once ♪ That I could have been your one ♪ ♪ Just once ♪ You knew once ♪ Trapped in your universe ♪ But maybe once if I was you ♪ Maybe once ♪ Carried along by the ♪ I could have been the one ♪ Curse of your cursive ♪ Just once ♪ I don't wanna be pen pals forever ♪ ♪ Writing with thumbs on a backlit screen ♪ ♪ Darling you read all my letters ♪ ♪ You don't gotta hide all your read receipts ♪ ♪ Don't wanna be pen pals forever ♪ ♪ Writing with thumbs on a backlit screen ♪ ♪ Darling you read all my letters ♪ ♪ You don't gotta hide all your read receipts ♪ ♪ Oh you don't gotta, oh you don't gotta ♪ ♪ Don't gotta hide your read receipts ♪ ♪ I know you wanna, I know you wanna ♪ ♪ I know you wanna stay with me ♪ ♪ Oh you just like to ♪ Keep me contained ♪ Only once ♪ When faded ink ♪ Is all that remains ♪ When I could be the one ♪ Oh you just like to keep me contained ♪ ♪ Only once ♪ Again (band segues into the next song) This song is called "Summer Rose".

♪ Smiling eyes ♪ That I chose ♪ Since you came in unexpectedly ♪ ♪ Kitchen-side ♪ Huddle close ♪ That's what loving you is supposed to be ♪ ♪ Bring me to better days ♪ The leaves change yet she stays ♪ ♪ My summer rose ♪ My summer rose ♪ Sun is high ♪ Creek is low ♪ And to you it's endless possibility ♪ ♪ Winter nights ♪ Runnin' through the snow ♪ The constant of your energy ♪ Bring me to better days ♪ The leaves change yet she stays ♪ ♪ My summer rose ♪ My summer rose (guitar riff plays) ♪ Bring me to better days ♪ The leaves change yet she stays ♪ ♪ My summer rose ♪ My summer rose ♪ Take me where you go my summer rose ♪ - Dave had reached out to my brother Patrick on a site called Band Mix, I believe.

(indistinct) Yeah.

It's like musician Tinder.

And my brother was like, "I'm a little too busy to take on a new project, so check him out if you want to".

And I was like, "Yeah".

So I, I don't know, I just texted you.

What did I do?

- Yeah.

- I don't know, we just talked for a while and he was like, come to our rehearsal and yeah.

And it was cool.

So I'm still here.

(chuckles) - I, well you might've heard the story before, (laughing) but I was actually, I remember the exact moment, I was in my basement playing my guitar and I happened to go on Instagram and I saw a DM from Mr. Paulson.

And at first I thought it was like some random, like, spam message and I almost didn't look at it, but then I looked at it and thank God I did because it's been a great time so far.

- So, you know, we had kind of just different people who were in Water Street for a good amount of time.

And then, you know, like anything with time, things change, people either get married, or have a job or move and we kind of just had a cycle of that happening.

And we, I think the three of us had kind of talked about, me, Connor and Julia, and we really consciously wanted to bring in people who were interested not only like there to learn the songs, but also interested in that creative process because that's kind of where we're looking to go next.

Like now that we have an album out, we're trying to make the next new tune.

So we wanted to bring people who we felt like were energized and looking to be engaged in that whole process too.

And, I'm really excited and just kind of over the moon that we have these guys here with us now in that process, so.

- I mean, I think the songs that already exist are kind of a great bed for that to happen on to bring in people that aren't familiar with it and kind of figure out who plays what role.

I mean, it's a testament to the songwriting that you can have three random guys that you just met and we sound really good immediately on the songs.

Like they're a great bed of rice for the musicians to season and add meats and vegetables to.

Yeah.

(laughing) - - [Interviewer] Are you hungry Alex?

- A little bit, yeah.

- Yeah, I wanna give a quick shout out also to some of the people up here tonight.

Alex Kerssen on the keys, killing it.

Eddie Woodcock on the electric and Brendan Gardner back here on the bass, keeping it funky.

- Whoo, hoo, hoo.

- Keeping it funky, keeping it fresh.

- Absolutely.

- Yes, so I don't know if I ever told you this, but I jammed with Connor once when I was a junior in high school.

The two of us were like, "Hey, let's play some music together".

And we found out years later that after that we left that jam session we were like, (scoffs) never playing again with that guy.

Never!

(Julia laughing) We actually were talking about doing a Halloween event.

Like we'd play music while people trick or treated.

And then Connor was like, "Yeah, okay, maybe".

And then I hear back from the night and then he was- - Ghosted.

- What was that?

- Ghosted.

- Ghosted, yeah.

(laughing) Absolute ghosted.

And then I saw a picture or a video of Connor in a full body Gumby suit hanging out with, with his actually soon now wife at the time.

And I was like, "That guy ghosted me and - Worked out.

- Didn't text me back.

And what do I know?

Years later, they're happily married.

But it's just, it's always really funny how people kind of come back full swing into your life.

And that's kind of a really other cool thing.

Getting to work with Julia and record all the harmonies on the album and now kind of make our next music together as the new Water Street, so, this, with that said, this new song is called "Be All There".

- One, two, one, two, one, two, three (band plays in) ♪ You know I tried to get it right ♪ ♪ Get it right this time around ♪ ♪ You know I tried to get a ride ♪ ♪ Get a ride out of this town ♪ But those neon lights they can't replace ♪ ♪ Can't replace my backyard stars ♪ ♪ But those endless nights they can't replace ♪ ♪ Can't replace a broken heart ♪ I wish that I knew how to be ♪ Be all there ♪ Be all there ♪ You tell me all your promises ♪ ♪ Hope they're not my weaknesses ♪ ♪ You know I was there for you for all we couldn't be ♪ ♪ Time knows all my grievances ♪ Aftermath's anonymous ♪ But I'm tryin' to see it through ♪ ♪ Be all there ♪ Be all there ♪ You know I'm gonna get it right ♪ ♪ Get it right this time around ♪ ♪ These lines are gonna bring it right ♪ ♪ Right out of the background ♪ Ooh but the other side ♪ Other side of the curtain still eclipses over me ♪ ♪ One half of me is figured out, figured out ♪ ♪ And yet the other's learning how to be ♪ ♪ I wish that I knew how to be ♪ Be all there ♪ Be all there ♪ I wish that I could find a way ♪ ♪ To be all there ♪ Be all there ♪ You tell me all your promises ♪ ♪ I hope they're not my weaknesses ♪ ♪ You know I was there for you for all we couldn't be ♪ ♪ Time knows all my grievances ♪ The aftermath's anonymous ♪ But I'm tryin' to see it through ♪ ♪ Be all there ♪ Be all there ♪ Whoa (audience applauding) - This next song that we're gonna do is actually the first song that we recorded on our album.

It's called "What A Life".

And a few years back, my grandpa actually came up to me during Thanksgiving and he had asked, he had this idea of writing a song together for my grandparents' 50 year wedding anniversary.

He's not a songwriter, he does not claim to be, but I was like, "Okay, cool, get me some words, get me some ideas.

And we'll try it out.

We'll see what we can get".

So he sent me, it was an iPhone screen, it was a picture of words on an iPhone.

So like phones can take screenshots, but this was like a literal screenshot that he sent me of some lovely, wonderful, corny (laughing) lyrics.

But we took them, we had to find the one weekend that grandma was away on vacation so we could write it together.

But we did and we gave it to her on their anniversary.

And it ended up being the first song we recorded on the album.

We actually have a music video out for it too.

And it's kind of a way that we can get to tell the story of how they met and fell in love.

And the song is called "What A Life".

♪ Morning coffee with the gluten-free sunrise ♪ ♪ Ocean waves and the look in your eyes ♪ ♪ Daylight to sweet goodnight ♪ You pull my breath away 'til all you leave me with is wow ♪ ♪ What a life ♪ What a life ♪ I couldn't picture all the years that were next ♪ ♪ Slowly moving closer to your doorstep ♪ ♪ But we've known it since that moment ♪ ♪ One little word is where it all begins and then it's wow ♪ ♪ What a life ♪ What a life ♪ Ooh ♪ I was drifting through the clouds ♪ ♪ Just waiting to be found ♪ But never coming down ♪ And you ♪ You turned my world around ♪ You came without a sound ♪ And brought me to the ground ♪ You brought me to the ground ♪ The years go by and the kids grew older ♪ ♪ On our own but somehow life feels fuller ♪ ♪ The little moments have never been sweeter ♪ ♪ I'd do it all again if I could take it back to wow ♪ ♪ What a life ♪ What a life ♪ As time goes by it feels like ♪ ♪ The first time that we realize ♪ ♪ As time goes by it feels like ♪ ♪ The first time that we realize ♪ ♪ Morning coffee with the gluten-free sunrise ♪ ♪ Ocean waves and the look in your eyes ♪ ♪ As time goes by it feels like ♪ ♪ The first time that we realize ♪ (audience applauding) - Awesome.

Awesome.

Well, this is gonna be our last song for the night.

This song is called Alexandra.

Thank you.

And I want to give just a really quick shout out to WVIA for having us here tonight.

(cheering) All the camera operators.

- You guys have been great.

Thank you so much.

- Yeah, thank you guys so much.

♪ Friday night news ♪ Your eyes lit up that movie screen ♪ ♪ Too soon to know ♪ Our friends all say just take it slow ♪ ♪ But I'm sure of what you are to me ♪ ♪ We're stuck in being what we ought to be ♪ ♪ Some may call it reckless ♪ But leaving together ♪ Is going home ♪ Flashback photographs hanging in your car ♪ ♪ Hatchback summer laughs with you resting on my arm ♪ ♪ Where I said ♪ Ooooooh I don't mind ♪ Wasting time if it's with you ♪ ♪ Ooooooh Let's just ride ♪ Like we're driving through the stop lights ♪ (rocking beat plays) ♪ Turn off your phone to dodge the traffic ♪ ♪ Forget where we thought we're headed to ♪ ♪ The GPS is saying 80 ♪ Oooooh ♪ But all I really want is 80 million miles with you ♪ ♪ Some may call it reckless ♪ But leaving together ♪ Is going home ♪ Flashback photographs hanging in your car ♪ ♪ Hatchback midnight laughs with you resting on my arm ♪ ♪ Where I said ♪ Ooooooh I don't mind ♪ Wasting time if it's with you ♪ ♪ Ooooooh Let's just ride ♪ Like we're driving through the ♪ ♪ You go ♪ You go ♪ You go ♪ Go, go, oh we go ♪ Ooooooh There's no such time as wasted time if it's on you ♪ ♪ Ooooooh Let's just ride ♪ Like we're driving through the stop lights ♪ (audience applauding)