blind faith, steve winwood “can’t find my way home’
from: blind faith, 1969,
“Come down off your throne and leave your body alone
Somebody must change
You are the reason I’ve been waiting so long
Somebody holds the key
But I’m near the end and I just ain’t got the time
And I’m wasted and I can’t find my way home
Come down on your own and leave your body alone
Somebody must change
You are the reason I’ve been waiting all these years
Somebody holds the key
But I’m near the end and I just ain’t got the time
And I’m wasted and I can’t find my way home
But I can’t find my way home
But I can’t find my way home
But I can’t find my way home
But I can’t find my way home
Still I can’t find my way home
And I ain’t done nothing wrong
But I can’t find my way home
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Here are two versions of this classic from 54 years ago. Blind Faith’s acoustic version from their one and only album and a 2007 live version that also features Winwood and Clapton with the additions of Derek Trucks and Doyle Bramhall. Fourteen year old Winwood became a member of the Spencer Davis Group in 1962 and his lovely tenor, which had been compared to Ray Charles’s, anchored their US hits Gimme Some Lovin and I’m A Man. He then went on to form the group Traffic and later the short-lived super group Blind Faith, before reforming Traffic and later a long solo career.
-Alan West-
